Clifford Stang was the only Ann Arbor police officer murdered in the line of duty, shot at the Conlin and Wetherbee Clothing Store on March 21, 1935.
William “Shorty” Padgett was tried and convicted, but paroled in 1949.
Sources
- Ann Arbor District Library exhibit w/photo
- The Murder of Officer Clifford Stang
- 79 Inmates of Prison Paroled, Owosso Argus-Press, December 23, 1949.