CHARLES HODGES

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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 46-E: 25
Department: Haskell County, Oklahoma, S.O.
End of Watch: February 26, 1910
Cause: SHOT
Age: 47
Years of Service: 3
Description: Deputy Hodges was fatally shot by a man as he escorted a suspect to jail. Deputy Hodges had arrested the suspect on a charge of peddling whiskey when a friend of the suspect approached and demanded his release. Deputy Hodges refused and continued on. The man went home, retrieved a Winchester rifle, approached Deputy Hodges a second time and shot him in the chest.
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