C. M. Taylor served in the U.S. Army.
City Marshal C.M. Taylor was shot and killed while attempting to arrest the city's mayor. The owner of a local lumberyard had sworn out a warrant against the mayor for the mayor's failure to pay his debt to the lumberyard. As Marshal Taylor attempted to arrest the mayor, he was shot. The mayor initially refused to give himself up but later, fearing he would be lynched, he surrendered to authorities. The mayor was charged with Marshal Taylor's murder but acquitted at trial. Marshal Taylor was a Union Army veteran of the Civil War. He had been appointed by the mayor two years earlier after the murder of City Marshal Henry Seaman and previously served as a United States Deputy Marshal.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
City Marshal Taylor gave the Baxter Springs Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Baxter Springs community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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