The Greater Cincinnati Police Museum
“Preserving the History of Law Enforcement in the Greater Cincinnati Area”
Age: 32
Served: 6 months
December 1942 to June 2, 1943
On June 2, 1943, Russell Scarborough (40) and his wife, Mabel Scarborough (35), were involved in a domestic dispute over money at their farm on Rural Route 3 near Harrison, Indiana. Scarborough had a .32 caliber revolver. William Ray Siler (33), a boarder at a Cincinnati rooming house that Scarborough also owned, interceded with a shotgun. Scarborough took two shots at Siler and Siler unloaded buckshot into Scarborough’s cheek, left arm, chest, and hand. Scarborough was taken to Christ Hospital and Siler fled.
Sheriff Arthur Voit and Deputy Grubbs went to the Scarborough farm later to see if they could locate Siler. When Deputy Grubbs reached into the back seat to retrieve a twelve-gauge shotgun, it discharged striking him in the right chest.
Sheriff Voit rushed him to Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, but he died just before arrival.
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