Allen P. Trentham, Officer
Hobart Police Department
About 8 o’clock in the evening on Sunday, July 27, 1930, Officer Trentham was called to Freetown, the colored section of Hobart, to arrest Fred Wallace. Wallace had been drinking and was reportedly waving a gun around and threatening his entire family. When Trentham drove up Wallace was surrounded by other people. Trentham did not know Wallace had told the crowd he would kill anyone who approached him. When Officer Trentham walked up to him, Wallace shot the officer in the arm and fled the scene. Officer Allen P. Trentham died from loss of blood about 3 A.M. the next morning. Fred Wallace was charged with his murder.
Officer Trentham’s name was added to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial in a rather unique manner. On July 2, 1969, one of his daughters read a newspaper article about the memorial and noticed that her father’s name was not on it. She notified a supervisor with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol in Oklahoma City and he notified Mr. O.K. Bivins of the omission. The OHP supervisor was Lt. Cell Howell who would have his own name added to the memorial less than eight years later.