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Samuel Houston Childress

Case from Bristol, TN dated Aug 06, 1903

Victim Details

Samuel Houston Childress

Male

Bristol

TN

1903-08-06

33

Samuel

Houston Childress

07/01/2026

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In the early hours of a winter night in Bristol, Tennessee, the life of Patrolman Samuel Houston Childress, a 33-year-old male officer, was brought to an abrupt and violent end. On February 7, 1903, a dispute simmering with animosity on State Street escalated to a fatal confrontation. The man who fired the deadly shot was Grat Walk, a police officer from the neighboring Bristol, Virginia. The quarrel between the two lawmen concluded at midnight when Walk shot and killed Childress.

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