Timeline: 1912
Deputy Sheriff Whitfield Larry, a retired a Deputy Sheriff in Alexander County, was asked to resume duties as a deputy in Champaign after moving to Champaign. He was a deputy at Cairo in Alexander County during the 1909 lynching of African American laborer William James.
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