Sam Booth

Death by Force

In the early evening hours of March 21, 1931, Fort Smith Police Detective Sam Booth, a 48-year-old male, was on patrol with his partner, Detective D.N. Willis. The two officers stopped a vehicle for speeding at the intersection of Towson and South E Street. Inside the car were two young men, one of whom identified himself as Tom Moore from Poteau. Unbeknownst to the detectives at the time, the car the youths were driving had been reported stolen from a hospital parking lot just an hour earlier. ...Read More

Detective Sam Booth