26-07-2019 23:07 via kvoa.com

Slain Kentucky marshal honored over a century later in Texas

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A federal officer gunned down while transporting prisoners through eastern Kentucky has been honored at a small courthouse ceremony in Texas, more than a century after his death.
Senior officials with the U.S. Marshals Service and judges gathered Friday in Plano to present a flag to Russell Wireman’s great-great-great grandson, Gary Hulsey. Wireman, a marshal, was shot in the chest in 1889 during the so-called Moonshine War.
The presentation of the folded flag was
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