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The exact circumstance is the caused Edward's truck to lose his job or a little unclear.

But what we do know is that on a late fall afternoon in 1863, a knife fight broke out

in the hotel bar inside Manhattan's Stratton Hotel.

A drunk patron got into an altercation with a bartender and attacked him with a knife.

At the time, Edward's truck was a police officer whose beat included the area surrounding

the Stratton.

But by the time officer's truck responded several minutes later, the assailant was already

dead.

A New York City police detective who happened to be strolling nearby heard the commotion

going on, ran inside, and shot the knife-wielding attacker dead.

The details of the story the remaining question are those regarding officer's truck's actions

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