WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) - A police officer in South Carolina killed in the line of duty in 1928 is finally being remembered at a national law enforcement memorial.
Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said research by his employees showed officer William Henry Talley confronted two men disrupting a church service near Salem on October 11, 1928. The men beat him in the head with a club or stick and he died the next day at age 52.
Crenshaw says one man was sentenced to life in prison and the other to 10 years.
Crenshaw said in a statement the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C., reviewed the research and will place Talley’s name on its memorial.
Talley worked for the Oconee County Rural Police Department, which was the predecessor to the sheriff’s office.
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