Straubing

Straubing was a lieutenant in the US Army during the Great War. In 1916, after the US had overrun Kentucky, Straubing hired Cincinnatus to drive trucks for the army.

Straubing was focused on getting the job done. Cincinnatus' skin color was irrelevant because Cincinnatus was an excellent and dutiful driver. Straubing went so far as to order the arrest of several white Army drivers for insubordination when they refused to work with Cincinnatus. Straubing did this in the name of discipline, but Cincinnatus appreciated the act.

Straubing's focus was such that he personally killed Tom Kennedy, removing a thorn in Cincinnatus' side. However, Kentucky State Police officer Luther Bliss, long suspicious of Cincinnatus, began investigating him. When Straubing learned of the problem, he admitted, quite off-handedly, that he'd killed Kennedy.