Deputy Sheriff Jack Faul Williams, Valley County Sheriff's Office, Montana

Deputy Sheriff Jack Faul Williams

Valley County Sheriff's Office, Montana

End of Watch Saturday, June 6, 1903

Jack Faul Williams

Deputy Jack Williams was shot and killed during a prison escape from the county jail. A prisoner who had been sentenced to death had somehow obtained a rifle and shot Deputy Williams to death. The prisoner and three other inmates escaped the prison.

One suspect was immediately recaptured and hung by an angry mob of citizens. One other suspect was killed in a gunfight with a posse in which Posseman Charles Hill was fatally shot. A third suspect escaped.

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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Incident Date Monday, May 18, 1903
Weapon Rifle
Offender Two killed; one escaped

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Time may have passed but you are not forgotten. I believe as long as someone remembers you or speaks your name, you are still with us.
Thank you for your heroism.
GOD Bless

Detention Officer A.Zambito
Texas

June 6, 2015