Officer Charles C. Carter tried to stop a drink-crazed man who had been flourishing a gun near 629 E. Court Street.  The man ran behind a telephone pole and fired a bullet that pierced the lungs of Officer Carter.  Shot on May 7, 1927, Carter died two days later on May 9 in spite of blood transfusions given by a fellow officer.  The murderer escaped.  A month after the incident, the case was solved with the arrest of a mental patient, Tilford Roberts, in a sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky.  Two witnesses who were at the scene of the shooting identified Roberts.

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