Bio & Incident Details
Age: 55
Tour: 20 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 12/7/1938
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Shot and killed
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Patrolman Vaughn and Sheriff Mercellus Robertson, of the Alamance County Sheriff's Department, were shot and killed by two escaped convicts while responding to a burglary-in-progress at a service station at the corner of North Church Street and Trade Street. Both were met with a blaze of gun shots from the darkness as they entered the station. A third officer returned fire through a window killing one of the convicts as they tried to escape through a back door. The other convict escaped.
Both convicts had escaped from an Anson County Prison Camp on October 22, 1938.
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