SPENCER STAFFORD
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Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 13-E: 1
Department: Drug Enforcement Administration
End of Watch: February 7, 1935
Cause: SHOT
Age: 36
Years of Service: 3
Description: Narcotic Inspector Stafford was shot and killed in Post, Texas. Inspector Stafford was fatally wounded when Sheriff W. F. Cato fired on him with a machine gun as he exited a veterinary hospital. Those charged in the murder were the Sheriff, his Deputy, Tom Morgan and two local doctors, L. W. Kitchen, a veterinarian and V. A. Hartman, a physician. In addition, both doctors were charged with federal narcotics violations. Inspector Stafford's killers were charged under a statute enacted in May 1934, making it a federal offense to kill a federal officer in the line of duty. This was believed to be the first time this statute was invoked.
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