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Desperate Gun Duel Ends in Spencer and Officer Death
Kansas City reports a pistol duel in a room where clothier George Spencer from Birmingham shot and killed bystander Stephen Flanagan, a policeman mortally wounded. Witnesses say Spencer refused to leave the Cox family’s house, waited for the officer, and both men fired repeatedly, ending with Spencer dead and Flanagan bleeding from multiple wounds.
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