Today, we remember Marlboro County Rural Police Officer B. H. Hatcher.
On this date in 1924, Rural Police Officer Burdine H. Hatcher was shot to death by a man as he and another officer attempted to search the man’s home. B.H. and fellow officer J.H. Daugherty went to the home of Tom Dupre in search of contraband liquor. On being told of the officer’s business, Dupre secured a rifle and fired upon the officers, one bullet slightly wounding Officer Daugherty and another mortally wounding Officer Hatcher.
