WILLIAM COX
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 27-E: 22
Department: Dubois County, Indiana, S.O.
End of Watch: May 23, 1887
Cause: SHOT
Age: 35
Years of Service: 1
Description: Attempting arrest. William Cox and John Gardener, both deputized by Sheriff Cox, attempted to arrest two brothers wanted for robbery. Gardener, who died on the scene, was shot in the head, leg and back. Cox was shot in the wrist and back. He was paralyzed from the waist down and died 2 years later.
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