City Marshal Adrain V. Mercing

Adrain V. Mercing

City Marshal Adrain Mercing was beaten to death in retaliation for his testimony to a grand jury as part of a bootlegging investigation.

The subject who had been indicted as part of the investigation located Marshal Mercing eating his dinner in a restaurant and called out to him. When Marshal Mercing approached him the man attacked him unprovoked and beat him on the head with a pistol, fracturing his skull.

The man fled the area after the assault.

Marshal Mercing had served with the Beebe Police Department for several years.