Thomas Jackson McElhaney
Birth Jan 1868
McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
Death 11 Oct 1908 (aged 40)
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
Burial Kings Point Cemetery
Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
Bio information courtesy of Chattanooga newspaper archives and the Officer Down Memorial Page, www.odmp.org Burial info from newspaper articles on the murder.
McElhaney was a Detective with the Nashville, Chattanooga, & St. Louis Railroad. He was shot and killed in the middle of the night.
A former railroad detective who had been fired had blamed Detective McElhaney for the loss of his job was arrested after a bloodhound tracked to his house from the crime scene. The former detective was arrested and charged with murder but was eventually acquitted due to the prosecution having only circumstantial evidence.
Detective McElhaney was survived by his wife and seven children.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/233241664/thomas_jackson_mcelhaney
