PAUL SLOAN

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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 4-W: 26
Department: Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, S.O.
End of Watch: September 27, 1900
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Sloan was shot while protecting a prisoner from being lynched by an angry mob. The mob had battered down the door in an attempt to get to the prisoner. The deputies, fearing for their lives, fired into the crowd. Several people returned fire and Deputy Sloan was fatally shot. The leaders of the mob were arrested and charged with murder.
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