Leslie Clarence Wolfinbarger, Night City Marshal
City of Collinsville
About 3 A.M. on Friday, May 28, 1915, Wolfinbarger, 30, was escorting two brothers home who were drunk. As they were walking down Main Street, the two brothers attacked Wolfinbarger with a hidden knife, slashing his throat severing his jugular vein. Witnesses to the murder included several people in a near by café and his wife and daughter from their apartment window across the street. The two brothers were arrested at the scene and charged with the marshal’s murder. This was to have been Wolfinbarger’s last night as an officer. He had told his family before he went to work that night that he did not want to be “forceful” on his last night to work.