Charles Henry

Charles Armstrong Henry was a 24-year-old male police officer in Shelbyville, Tennessee, whose life came to a violent end on the night of October 31, 1911. He had been on duty that day with fellow officer Redden George Purdie, patrolling a small Bedford County town where most of the day's trouble came from the usual saloon-fueled disturbances rather than calculated murder. At some point earlier that day, the two officers arrested a man for drunk and disorderly conduct, taking him into custody in ...

Officer Charles Armstrong Henry

Reflections for Officer Charles Armstrong Henry, Shelbyville Police ...