JOE M DODSON
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Officer Rank: Deputy Marshal
Memorial Panel: 5-E: 5
Department: U.S. Marshals Service
End of Watch: August 29, 1897
Cause: SHOT
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Description: Deputy Marshal Dodson and Deputy Marshal B. F. Taylor were shot and killed in a raid on moonshiners outside of Little Rock, Arkansas. Marshal Taylor and fellow marshals were closing in on the illegal distillery when the moonshiners opened fire. Marshal Taylor and Marshal Dodson were killed instantly. Two more officers were killed subsequently. When the scene of the crime was investigated the moonshiners had disappeared as well as two wounded marshals.
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