TILLMAN D TAYLOR
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Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 28-W: 2
Department: Umatilla County, Oregon, S.O.
End of Watch: July 25, 1920
Cause: SHOT
Age: 54
Years of Service: 18
Description: Sheriff Taylor was overpowered and shot in the chest with his own gun by six inmates who were escaping from the county jail. The inmates were arrested and convicted of murder. Three of the inmates were executed by hanging and the other three were sentenced to life in prison.
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