Special Officer Scott Percy Yolton

Scott Percy Yolton

Special Officer S. Percy Yolton succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained three days earlier in the Southern Pacific Railroad's Englewood yards in Houston, Texas.

He had just arrested two men who had arrived in the railroad yards on a freight train and was walking them out of the yards when of the men produced a .45 caliber handgun and shot him in the abdomen. Despite his wounds, he returned fire but did not strike either subject as they fled.

A deserter from the U.S. Army's Camp Bowie was arrested several days later and charged with murder in a military court martial.

Officer Yolton had served with the Southern Pacific Railroad Police for at least six weeks. He was survived by his parents and five siblings.