Charles W. Campbell, Patrolman

Holdenville Police Department

Shortly 8 P.M. on Tuesday, November 6, 1928, Patrolman Campbell and Night Chief Oscar Knight responded to a call at the home of a Mrs. Fisher where her two visiting uncles, Jim and Henry Fisher, had threatened her daughters as they left to call a doctor for their mother who was ill. When the officers arrived Jim took off running with the officers chasing after him. As the officers caught up to him, Jim turned and shot Campbell in the neck. Both officers returned fire, sticking Jim in the back. Officer Campbell died at the scene from a severed jugular vein and an artery. Jim Fisher died two days later from his wounds. Campbell, 29, was the first Holdenville officer to die in the line of duty, and left behind a wife, two daughters and a son.
 

Calvin Warnell Polk, Officer

Holdenville Police Department 

Before coming to Oklahoma Territory, Calvin Polk was part of the posse that captured Billy the Kid at Stinking Springs, New Mexico in December 1880. About noon Friday, January 22, 1904, Officer Polk, 41, was home alone cleaning his six shot revolver. He had the handles off and five cartridges extracted and laying on the floor. This is the usual number of cartridges he carried in his revolver and it is believed that he did not know the sixth cartridge was in the gun and that it was accidentally discharged. The bullet struck him in the forehead. His wife Annie was next door visiting a neighbor when the accident happened. Shortly after the accident some of Officer Polk’s six children came home from school and found their father on the floor with the wound to his head but still alive. Officer Polk died later that same day.