GEORGE GREENVILLE SMART

Officer Rank: City Marshal
Memorial Panel: 10-W: 27
Department: Marietta, Oklahoma, P.D.
End of Watch: August 31, 1922
Cause: SHOT
Age: 55
Years of Service: Unk
Description: City Marshal Smart was shot in an altercation with the town grocer. Marshal Smart was approached by the grocer, who had also employed him in the past, and questioned him on his opinion regarding trade unions. The two men got into a fight and the grocer pulled a .38 handgun and shot Marshal Smart in the groin. Marshal Smart, who was unarmed at the time of the shooting, died a short time later. The grocer was arrested.
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