Francis Hays Wilmoth

Francis Hays Wilmoth, age 38, was a White male who served as chief of police for the Coalton Police Department in Randolph County, West Virginia. Coalton had been incorporated in 1895 under the name Womelsdorf, which explains why contemporary accounts usually placed the killing at Womelsdorf rather than Coalton. Law-enforcement memorial records list Wilmoth's end of watch as Tuesday, July 22, 1902, and identify gunfire as the cause of death. There is, however, a significant date discrepancy in t ...

Chief of Police Francis Hays Wilmoth

Chief Francis Hays Wilmoth, age 38 - National Gun Violence Memorial