On August 31, 1921, male, 31-year-old Deputy Sheriff George Edward “Ted” Price was shot and killed in Thermopolis, Wyoming, while he and other officers attempted to arrest a bootlegging suspect during Prohibition.
The bootlegging suspect was identified in contemporaneous and memorial sources as Elsworth Mullendore, a moonshine runner whom officers were seeking to arrest. During the confrontation, gunfire was exchanged; 31-year-old Deputy Sheriff George Edward Price suffered fatal
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