Bio & Incident Details
Age: 35
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 12/22/1930
Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife
Suspect: Executed
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Deputy Marshal Perman Calderwood was stabbed to death while attempting to arrest a robbery suspect while off duty. He was en route home when he observed a shop owner chasing two men who had just robbed his shop.
When Deputy Calderwood intervened he was stabbed in the chest. Suspects Robert O'Neil and William Hudson were arrested, convicted of 1st degree murder, and hanged at Folsom Prison on October 2, 1931.
Deputy Marshal Calderwood was survived by his parents.
