Thomas William Staggs

City Marshal Thomas William Staggs, a 54-year-old male from Keo, Arkansas, was killed on December 5, 1931. That afternoon, while driving back to town, he offered a ride to a hitchhiker. During the ride he realized the man was armed and ordered him to hand over the weapon; instead, the hitchhiker disarmed the marshal, taking Staggs’s service pistol. To break the standoff, Staggs deliberately wrecked his car into a roadside ditch, forcing a separation and prompting the gunman to flee on foot wit ...

City Marshal Thomas William Staggs