Marshal Clarence Green was shot and killed while attempting to arrest three men who had just robbed a service station.

In late evening of March 28, 1934, Night Marshal Green, Chief of Police Rodney Brown, Constable Henry Meeks approached two men acting suspiciously at White Eagle service station on the outskirts of town and the men ran into a nearby wooded area. The officers pursued the men for approximately 150 yards when one of the men ducked behind a tree and fired four shots with a shotgun. Night Marshal Green was struck in the face and chest and fell fatally wounded. The men, who had burglarized the service station fled in a Chevrolet sedan.

Suspect, Fred Adams, was apprehended hiding on a traveling freight train in Paragould, Arkansas. He and another prisoner were held in the prison at Jefferson City after attacking Sheriff Thomas Donaldson with iron bars during a failed escape attempt on September 11, 1934. The Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear Adam's appeal and he was executed by hanging on April 18, 1937 by Sheriff Donaldson in Kennett, Missouri. A second prisoner, Raymond Young was sentenced to life. A third, Doyne Vinyard, was killed when he resisted arrest in St Louis, Missouri.

There is a Memorial for Marshal Green at McCutcheon Park in Campbell. He was survived by his expectant wife, Pearl, and three children. Interred: Woodlawn Cemetery, Campbell, Dunkin County, Missouri.