Edward Baum , City Marshal

City of Checotah

Marshal Baum was one of six officers who had gone to the house of Chitto “Crazy Snake” Harjo, leader of a militant group of Creek Indians, to arrest him for larceny on March 27, 1909. Near dusk the officers approached the house and shots were fired as several Indians ran from the house. Marshal Baum was the first officer to be shot and killed. McIntosh County Deputy Sheriff Herman Odom tried to get to Baum but was himself shot and killed. A wife and three children survived Baum.