Genesee News

Robert G. Harris tells a neat story from 1957 about a Fenton doctor named Carver Walcott, who is buried at Oakwood Cemetery. 

As reported by Harris, "Dr. Carver Walcott received a suspicious telephone call at 3:30am to come to his office to dress a bullet wound in the caller's arm." Dr. Walcott called the authorities and headed to his office.

The caller and his wife said they were hitchhiking, and got talked into buying a gun for the man who picked them up. They said the gun went off accidentally while the three of them were examining it together, wounding the caller's arm. 

The State Police arrived to investigate, and Dr. Walcott told them, "[T]here were no powder marks on the arm, indicating the shot had been fired at a distance. Also, the man had evidently changed his clothing since there were no bullet holes in the clothes he was wearing."

Under further interrogation, the caller admitted, "the truth was this 21-year old man had been engaged in an armed robbery in Detroit and had been shot as he was escaping."

Thanks to Dr. Walcott's keen powers of observation and quick thinking, the bad guys' plans were foiled! 

We attach for you Dr. Walcott's obituary, as well as a shot of his headstone at Oakwood. Say hello the next time you are there.

Original source can be found here.