Bio & Incident Details
Age: 31
Tour: 3 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Location: North Carolina
Incident Date: 4/20/1899
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Arrested
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Sheriff Dawson was shot and killed in Haywood County, North Carolina, while accompanying a posse in search for illegal stills. The posse had located a still and had arrested one person. As they headed back to Cocke County in the darkness they stopped to discuss the prisoner. They deputies were illuminated by a lantern when a shot was fired from the woods and struck Sheriff Dawson in the neck.
Sheriff Dawson had served with the Cocke County Sheriff's Department for 3 years. He was survived by his wife and two children.
