ALBERT R. GOOCH , son of L. O. GOOCH, was shot and killed at Nocona, Texas
Sunday, January 6 at 2:30 while in discharge of his duty as police officer. He
and a fellow officer, armed with a search warrant, went to the home of a person
charged with bootlegging. The man doing the shooting was already under bond. As
Mr. Gooch entered the room, the offender, hiding behind the door of another
room, shot Gooch with a sawed off shotgun, the load entering behind the left
ear. The body was taken to the funeral parlor, embalmed for shipment to
Tennessee to be buried beside his mother at Barr Springs graveyard in the 26th
district near Westport. It arrived at Huntingdon at 10:30, accompanied by JOE
GOOCH, a brother. It was carried to the parlor of the jail, the official
residence of Sheriff J. C. BUTLER, whose wife is a sister of the Mr. Gooch where
it laid in state until Thursday, at 10:30, carried to the Baptist Church,
service conducted by REV. T. M. BOYD and E. H. MARTIN. Masons officiated at the
service. Sheriff Butler received a telegram from the mayor of Denton, Texas
which bore testimony to the efficiency of Mr. Gooch as an officer, the telegram
declaring that Texas had lost one of its bravest and best officers. Many
generous floral tributes from Texas friends covered the casket of the deceased,
showing he had made friends in his new home. He was born in Carroll County in
1881, being nearly 48 years old. He moved to Texas some 25 years ago and had
been a police officer 8 or 10 years. He was the son of L. O. and MARGARET GOOCH.
He is survived by four sisters, MRS. J. C. BUTLER, MRS. ELMER ORR, MRS. TOM
MITCHELL, and MRS. HENRY BUTLER, all of Carroll County, and three brothers, BEN
and JAMES GOOCH of Carroll County and JOE GOOCH of Pilot Point, Texas.
The Tennessee Republican Huntingdon, Carroll County Friday, January 18, 1929

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