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Submitted: 10/20/09 • Approved: 2/11/11 • Last Updated: 8/16/12 • R249843-G0-S3
16 Sep 1916-4 May 1968
Son of Olin E. and Docia Baker Edmonds.
Married Pauline Powell Jan 1 1947.
Sheriff Edmonds was shot and killed during an escape from the Baxter County Courthouse Jail. He and a city marshal had gone to the third floor of the courthouse to feed the prisoners breakfast. While Sheriff Edmonds talked to two of the prisoners they suddenly attacked him and shot him with a .32 caliber handgun that had been smuggled into them earlier. The shooter escaped but was apprehended a few days later and convicted of first degree murder.
Sheriff Edmonds had been with the agency for ten years and was survived by his wife, daughter and two sons.
Photo contributed by the Baxter County Sheriff's Office
Source http://www.odmp.org/officer/4467-sheriff-emmett-o.-edmonds
Photo of Badge and Sheriff Edmond have been added to picture.
Contributed on 10/20/09
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Record #: 249843