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The Tragic Tale of Officer Phippenney

(PUEBLO, Colo.) — On this day in 1879, Pueblo Police officer Alvin Phippenney was shot and killed in the line of duty—and his story is like something out of an old Western. On the morning of June 30, 1879, Officer Phippenney entered John Schwer’s Arkansas Hall Saloon on Santa Fe Avenue just after noon. A […]