Guido Bardelli showed up a couple hours after the shooting had started.

One man was dead, another wounded. Even after police had pumped in tear gas, the “berserk killer” barricaded inside a store in the small town of Wallace, Idaho, continued to fire dozens of rounds into the street.

Bardelli was a local silver and lead miner, not a cop, but he entered the wrecked store to confront the shooter – after it became clear that the officers at the scene wouldn’t. Bardelli borrowed a pistol from the police chief before he crawled in through the back door.

When he emerged, carrying the bleeding, unconscious suspect late on that cold Valentine’s Day in 1951, the dozens of spectators gathered outside stomped their feet and cheered, according to one newspaper’s account.

This courageous act did no

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