Sheriff Robert Terry McMurtry
End of Watch: Sun, Dec 13th, 1914
Date of Incident: Sun, Dec 13th, 1914
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Intentional)
Service Time: Not Known
Age: 36
Survivors
His wife
Incident
Sheriff Robert McMurtry was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man wanted for murdering Special Deputy Marshal James Wood, of the Upton Police Department, three days earlier.
The man had been located at a home and Sheriff McMurtry went to arrest him. As he searched the house shot him while hiding in the attic.
The suspect was convicted of first degree murder and executed in the electric chair on July 30, 1915.
Information obtained from the Officer Down Memorial Page.
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky 42701
(270) 765-5133
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