L C Hughes, City Marshal

Mill Creek 

Just before midnight Saturday night November 19, 1904, City Marshal L. C. Hughes, Deputy City Marshal Will Elliott and Deputy U. S. Marshal W. H. Sublett went to the south part of town and secreted themselves under a bridge to wait for some young men who were drunk and causing a disturbance in town to come by on their way home. When the two rowdy men approached the bridge on horseback the three lawmen crawled out from beneath the bridge to stop and arrest the men. Deputy City Marshal Elliott who was behind City Marshal Hughes stumbled causing his gun to discharge and the bullet striking Hughes in the back. The two rowdy men rode away when ordered to stop by the other two officers who then fired at them hitting one of the men, named Bud Works. City Marshal Hughes died half an hour later from his wound and Bud Works died that Sunday evening, November 20th at 10:30 P. M.