City Marshal William Thomas Cross, Columbia Police Department, South Carolina

City Marshal William Thomas Cross

Columbia Police Department, South Carolina

End of Watch Friday, December 21, 1855

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William Thomas Cross

City Marshal William Cross was shot and fatally wounding while attempting to quell a disturbance outside of a saloon on Gervais Street on December 14th, 1855.

He succumbed to his wounds on December 21st, 1855.

The subject who shot him was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging on April 25th, 1856.

Marshal Cross was a veteran of the Palmetto Regiment of the Mexican-American War. He was survived by his parents.