Mr. Thomas H. Carmichael, who was marshall of police in civil war times, died Saturday at his home, 401 South Exiter Street, from kidney trouble. He was born in Baltimore in 1829. In early life he took an active interest in politics. Mr. Carmichael was labor master under the late Mayor Chapman, inspector in the custom house under Collector Webster, and was a lieutenant and afterward captain of police before being promoted to marshal. In the trial of Mrs. Surratt, he was one of the witnesses. Mr. Carmichael retired from the police force in 1867, when the new police system went into operation in Baltimore. (Published in The Baltimore Sun on May 7, 1894).
Mr. Thomas H. Carmichael, who was marshall of police in civil war times, died Saturday at his home, 401 South Exiter Street, from kidney trouble. He was born in Baltimore in 1829. In early life he took an active interest in politics. Mr. Carmichael was labor master under the late Mayor Chapman, inspector in the custom house under Collector Webster, and was a lieutenant and afterward captain of police before being promoted to marshal. In the trial of Mrs. Surratt, he was one of the witnesses. Mr. Carmichael retired from the police force in 1867, when the new police system went into operation in Baltimore. (Published in The Baltimore Sun on May 7, 1894).
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