Victor Benner

In the early morning hours of December 7, 1911, in Memphis, Tennessee, Special Policeman Victor C. Benner of the Illinois Central Railroad Police Department was shot and killed. He was riding on a switch engine with two U.S. Deputy Marshals, traveling south from the McLemore Yards toward the Nonconnah Yards. When the engine stopped near Horn Lake Road for the conductor to throw a switch, a group of other railroad guards who had been drinking nearby mistook the men on the engine for trespassers a ...

Special Policeman Victor C. Benner