Type of Officer: Deputy Sheriff
Jurisdiction: Leavenworth County
County: Leavenworth
Death Date: October 29, 1924
Added to Memorial: 2025
Circumstances of Death: Gunshot
Glenn H. Curtiss, age 26, served as a deputy sheriff with the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office. In the late afternoon of October 29, 1924, the Linwood Kansas bank was robbed by a male suspect who left town by vehicle. Deputy Curtiss, along with several citizen Posse members in two different vehicles, began searching for the fleeing suspect. Two miles east of Linwood, Deputy Curtiss observed the suspect in a wooded area. As the posse members closed in on the suspect, Deputy Curtiss attempted to disarm the suspect. Following a brief struggle the armed suspect was able to shoot Deputy Curtiss. The suspect fled the scene on foot. Severely wounded, Deputy Curtiss succumbed to his gunshot wound later that evening at a Kansas City, Kansas hospital. On December 21, 1927, the suspect was apprehended in Twin Falls Idaho and returned to Kansas where, following conviction, he was sentenced to a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary. At the time of his death, Deputy Curtiss was survived by his wife, Zora, his parents, and a brother.
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