Otto Holler, Night Officer
City of Eldorado
On Sunday, November 9, 1924, Night Officers Hollier and Tom Daniels were making their rounds when they noticed a car behind the bank near the Sterner and Stone Store. Washington had just burglarized the store. The car was starting to leave as the officers approached the driver Johnnie Washington aka J. D. Wagoner and stopped him. As the officers were looking in the car Washington jumped from the car and started running as he fired two shots over his shoulder at the officers. Washington’s first shot hit officer Holler, killing him.
Washington was arrested later that week in Texas and returned to Oklahoma where he was convicted of the officer’s murder and sentenced to death. Washington died in the Oklahoma electric chair on December 4, 1925.