WILLIAM D PATTON
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Officer Rank: City Marshal
Memorial Panel: 4-E: 27
Department: Fayetteville, Arkansas, P.D.
End of Watch: July 2, 1881
Cause: SHOT
Age: 32
Years of Service: Unk
Description: City Marshal Patton and Deputy Sheriff John Mount were ambushed and shot as they stood in the town square. Marshal Patton had received several threats from relatives of a man he had shot several months prior while undertaking an arrest. Marshal Patton had been tried in a court of law and acquitted of all charged due to justifiable homicide. Marshal Patton and Deputy Mount were shot several times and died at the scene. Despite a large reward offered by Governor Churchill, their assassin was not apprehended.
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