Charles L. Bullock, City Marshal

City of Delaware

The morning of Saturday, January 6, 1917, a Delaware citizen named Thornbrew had been robbed and witnessed a grocery store being burglarized. Identifying the culprits as the Poe/Hart gang, a posse of seven men was quickly organized including Marshal Bullock and two brothers, John and Ed Garritson. As the posse entered the area of Blue Canyon about noon, they drove into an ambush set for them by the gang. Marshal Bullock and John Garritson were shot and killed.

John Garritson, City Marshal/Posseman

City of Delaware

On Saturday, January 6, 1917, 31-year-old Delaware merchant, John Garritson and his brother Ed were members of a posse led by Delaware City Marshal, Charles Bullock. The posse had trailed suspects in an armed robbery in Delaware the night before to a wooded gulch called Blue Canyon, northeast of Nowata. At the edge of the canyon the robbery suspects, members of the Poe-Hart Gang, ambushed the posse. Marshal Bullock and John Garritson were shot to death and Ed Garritson was wounded but survived.