On 5 Mar 1911, Deputy Guy White was alerted that three brothers, Bascom, Dan and Marion Carlton and Mack Burnie were on a train headed for Espanola, drunk, breaking windows and rough housing after spending the previous night in jail for being "tanked up on booze and getting ugly" in a tavern in Hastings, FL. Deputy White deputized Ave Schneider, a local merchant, to help him arrest the men and after taking them to the jail and in the process of searching them, Bascom Carlton pulled a gun and shot Guy White, killing him instantly then swung around and shot Abe Schneider, who fell to the floor dead.
The men escaped but were apprehended later and the three Carlton brothers were tried and sentenced to life in prison. However by May of 1926, all three Charlton brothers had been pardoned and released from prison.
R. B (Bob) Porter, director of investigations and chief of staff for the St Johns CO Sheriff's Office began a search in the case of the first St. Johns CO Deputy to be killed in the line of duty. Sheriff Neil Perry created an award for excellence in White's name. The first recipient of the Guy White Award by the Sheriff's Office was given in 1993.
The St. Johns CO Sheriff's Department dedicated a grave marker for Guy W White at the Espanola Cemetery in Nov 1993, where his grave had previous been marked only by conch shells placed there by his widow.
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Son of John H. and Hattie L. White
Husband of Jessie Rose Eatman White
The men escaped but were apprehended later and the three Carlton brothers were tried and sentenced to life in prison. However by May of 1926, all three Charlton brothers had been pardoned and released from prison.
R. B (Bob) Porter, director of investigations and chief of staff for the St Johns CO Sheriff's Office began a search in the case of the first St. Johns CO Deputy to be killed in the line of duty. Sheriff Neil Perry created an award for excellence in White's name. The first recipient of the Guy White Award by the Sheriff's Office was given in 1993.
The St. Johns CO Sheriff's Department dedicated a grave marker for Guy W White at the Espanola Cemetery in Nov 1993, where his grave had previous been marked only by conch shells placed there by his widow.
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Son of John H. and Hattie L. White
Husband of Jessie Rose Eatman White
On 5 Mar 1911, Deputy Guy White was alerted that three brothers, Bascom, Dan and Marion Carlton and Mack Burnie were on a train headed for Espanola, drunk, breaking windows and rough housing after spending the previous night in jail for being "tanked up on booze and getting ugly" in a tavern in Hastings, FL. Deputy White deputized Ave Schneider, a local merchant, to help him arrest the men and after taking them to the jail and in the process of searching them, Bascom Carlton pulled a gun and shot Guy White, killing him instantly then swung around and shot Abe Schneider, who fell to the floor dead.
The men escaped but were apprehended later and the three Carlton brothers were tried and sentenced to life in prison. However by May of 1926, all three Charlton brothers had been pardoned and released from prison.
R. B (Bob) Porter, director of investigations and chief of staff for the St Johns CO Sheriff's Office began a search in the case of the first St. Johns CO Deputy to be killed in the line of duty. Sheriff Neil Perry created an award for excellence in White's name. The first recipient of the Guy White Award by the Sheriff's Office was given in 1993.
The St. Johns CO Sheriff's Department dedicated a grave marker for Guy W White at the Espanola Cemetery in Nov 1993, where his grave had previous been marked only by conch shells placed there by his widow.
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Son of John H. and Hattie L. White
Husband of Jessie Rose Eatman White
The men escaped but were apprehended later and the three Carlton brothers were tried and sentenced to life in prison. However by May of 1926, all three Charlton brothers had been pardoned and released from prison.
R. B (Bob) Porter, director of investigations and chief of staff for the St Johns CO Sheriff's Office began a search in the case of the first St. Johns CO Deputy to be killed in the line of duty. Sheriff Neil Perry created an award for excellence in White's name. The first recipient of the Guy White Award by the Sheriff's Office was given in 1993.
The St. Johns CO Sheriff's Department dedicated a grave marker for Guy W White at the Espanola Cemetery in Nov 1993, where his grave had previous been marked only by conch shells placed there by his widow.
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Son of John H. and Hattie L. White
Husband of Jessie Rose Eatman White
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ST JOHN'S COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF
KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY
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