Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: NewtonCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 11/22/1928Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Internal HemorrhageChief DuFriend and Officer Paul Dutton were responding to a store robbery. While en route, DuFriend suffered a...
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: HutchinsonCounty: RenoDeath Date: 7/26/1928Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentLee White a guard with the Hutchinson State Reformatory was in charge of a work detail on July 25, 1928, at...
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 811/13/1927Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotSeveral weeks prior to his death on November 13, 1927, Santa Fe Railway Special Officer Earl Scothorn was on duty...
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: Dodge CityCounty: FordDeath Date: 11/8/1927Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotChief Cox was shot six times by a man he believed to be a chicken thief. This man, later identified by the FBI as...
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Hamilton CountyCounty: HamiltonDeath Date: 9/13/1927Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn September 10, 1927, Sheriff Mills, with his wife along, observed a car parked in a suspicious manner along the roadside....
Type of Officer: Railroad Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 8/31/1927Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: GunshotUnion Pacific Special Agent John Sherman was shot in the back August 17, 1927 by a youth after he had taken two youths...
