JOHN HENRY BINION
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 36-E: 28
Department: Elliott County, Kentucky, S.O.
End of Watch: June 11, 1926
Cause: SHOT
Age: 59
Years of Service: 25
Description: Deputy Sheriff Binion was ambushed at his residence and shot three times in the chest. Deputy Binion was scheduled to go to the federal courthouse later that day to obtain a warrant for several moonshine suspects. Deputy Binion had been working with federal agents to catch moonshiners in the county. Thirty-six moonshine stills had been destroyed by law enforcement officers in Elliott County that month. His assailant was never identified.
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