James D. Carn

 COMING SOON!

Hour of Trial: The Murder of Officer John P. 'Buck' Maloney
By James Carn
 
A young police officer is gunned down while investigating a suspicious character.
His murderer flees, but doesn't get far. A self-inflicted wound slows him down,
giving a determined police force the opportunity to apprehend and arrest the
21-year-old hardened criminal.

A tragedy that could have happened on the streets of New York or Los Angeles,
the murder of Buck Maloney occurred more than a century ago in the rural city
of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

After three decades of research, using newspaper articles, scant court records,
death certificates, stories handed down to descendants, church records, cemetery
records, interviews, railroad records, and numerous other sources, James Carn
presents the most historically accurate account of the murder, arrest and trial
of the century.

A lifelong Williamsport resident, Carn is a 25-year veteran of the Williamsport
Bureau of Police where he held the ranks of Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain.
He is a graduate of the Allentown Police Academy and successfully completed
Police Executive Development Institute courses at the Pennsylvania State University.
He is a graduate of the former Williamsport Community College (now Pennsylvania
College of Technology) with Associate Degrees in Graphic Arts Technology and
Education and Social Work. Carn received state certification as a district judge
in 1997 from Wilson College, Chambersburg, and successfully completed court-related
courses at the National Judicial College at University of Nevada, Reno.

Carn is a life member and member of the board of directors of the Lycoming Creek
Watershed Association and a life member of the Pine Creek Preservation Association.
And belongs to the following organizations: Lycoming County Historical Society,
Special Court Judges Association of PA, North Central Chapter of the Society
of Pennsylvania Archeology, Tiadaghton Chapter Sons of the American Revolution,
and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 29. He annually volunteers to work the Little
League World Series as an usher and volunteers to cut brush on the Black Forest
Trail and other Pine Creek and area trails.