George Wilson Reddick, City Marshal
George Wilson Reddick,
City Marshal
City of Arnett
Shortly after 4:00 A.M. on Tuesday, December 13, 1932, 56 year old Arnett City Marshal George Reddick arrested a man and woman for burglary of a service station. Marshal Reddick had frisked the man but not the woman. While standing on the running board of the suspects Model A Ford, Marshal Reddick directed the man to drive to the jail. Along the way the driver started speeding up. While Marshal Reddick was desperately trying to hold on, the female suspect shot him in the neck killing him instantly. The couple was later apprehended, tried and convicted of the Marshal’s murder. Marshal Reddick was survived by his wife and seven children.