is Born Edwin Archibald Slack had a busy Sunday ahead of him that hot July 21st of 1889. The publisher and editor of the Cheyenne Sun planned to accompany his family to the Presbyterian Church to hear the famous visiting contralto Madame D’Arona Dawson. Capitalizing on his one free day—the Sunday paper was already on the streets and there was no Monday paper—he intended to spend the afternoon at the baseball game at the fairgrounds where the Cheyenne Capitals would face off against the Sandens of Denver. To top off the day, he was taking his family to dinner at the Normandy, the restaurant his newspaper declared the “finest in the city.” But Slack did none of those things on that Sunday. He missed out on obligation and fun alike because he’d have had more important things to do. Stock Detective George Henderson showed up at the Slack residence and impatiently knocked on the front door. “What the…”
