Isaac B. Caldwell, Patrolman
Guthrie Police Department
About 2:15 P.M. on Sunday afternoon September 7, 1913, Guthrie officers Caldwell and Lou D Muxlow attempted to arrest Lou Green in his “bootlegger’s parlor” on the south side of Viles Street between First and Second Streets in Guthrie for yet another liquor violation. A fight ensued during which Green pulled a .38 automatic pistol and shot each officer in the head killing them instantly.
Charles W. Campbell, Patrolman
Holdenville Police Department
Shortly 8 P.M. on Tuesday, November 6, 1928, Patrolman Campbell and Night Chief Oscar Knight responded to a call at the home of a Mrs. Fisher where her two visiting uncles, Jim and Henry Fisher, had threatened her daughters as they left to call a doctor for their mother who was ill. When the officers arrived Jim took off running with the officers chasing after him. As the officers caught up to him, Jim turned and shot Campbell in the neck. Both officers returned fire, sticking Jim in the back. Officer Campbell died at the scene from a severed jugular vein and an artery. Jim Fisher died two days later from his wounds. Campbell, 29, was the first Holdenville officer to die in the line of duty, and left behind a wife, two daughters and a son.
Webster Lorain Campbell, Detective
Oklahoma City Police Department
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, October 29, 1938, Detective Campbell, 35, and his partner, I. L. McCurdy, responded to a general broadcast of a prowler (burglar) at 518 NW 24th Street. When the detectives arrived Campbell ran to the back of the house. Unknown to the detectives other officers had already arrived, began pursuing the burglar and had fired shots at him. As Campbell came around the corner of the house, in his dark suit in the darkness, one of the other officers, H. Lawrence Bush, mistook him for the burglar and shot him. Campbell was hit in the left side and died at the hospital a short time later. Bush resigned the department eight months later. Campbell left behind a wife and three young daughters.
William Calvin "Cal" Campbell, Constable
Commerce Police Department
On Friday, April 6, 1934, fugitives Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin mired their car down on a muddy road near Commerce. A passerby observed guns in the car and notified police. Chief of Police Percy Boyd and Constable Campbell, 61, went to investigate. As the officers approached the stuck car the fugitives began firing at them with Browning Automatic Rifles. Campbell was killed and Boyd wounded. The fugitives kidnapped Boyd and released him the next day in Fort Scott, Kansas. Two sons and five daughters survived Campbell, a widower.
Cynthia Lynn Campbell-Brown, Special Agent
U.S. Secret Service
Special Agent Campbell-Brown had served fourteen months at her first assignment, which was the Oklahoma City field office, in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building when it was bombed at 9:02 A.M. Wednesday morning, April 19, 1995, and she was killed. She was survived by her husband of less than six weeks who was also a Secret Service agent
John Mathew "Red" Cantrell, Deputy Sheriff
Murray County Sheriff's Office
On Wednesday evening, August 27, 1930, Deputy Sheriff W. T. Tuck called Deputy Cantrell, 46, to assist him in further checking out a couple in a car he had talked to earlier three miles west of Sulphur. Deputy Cantrell picked up Deputy Tuck in his car. Cantrell must have thought it was a mundane call as he brought his sons Emmitt, 14, and Leo, 12, along with him. The deputies located the car, now facing the opposite direction and at a different location on the road than it was before. Deputy Cantrell pulled up next to the car and as he started to get out by standing on the running board of his car he was shot in the chest with a 20-gauge shotgun by a man laying in the back seat of the car. Deputy Tuck opened fire on the man but he was able to escape out of the car. The two Cantrell boys then witnessed their father die. Cantrell also left behind a wife and 9-year old daughter.
Sapulpa Police Department
Just after midnight on
Sunday, July 31, 2005, Officer Cantrell, 34, was speeding to assist another
officer involved in a pursuit of a suspect. Riding with Officer Cantrell was his
father Charles Cantrell as part of the department’s Ride-along Program.
Officer Cantrell’s
patrol car was south bound on Highway 66 with overhead lights and siren engaged.
As he approached 96th Street a car started into the intersection then
stopped. Officer Cantrell hit the brakes and swerved to miss the car. The patrol
car missed the stopped car but ran off the road and crashed killing Charles
Cantrell, 59. Officer Cantrell was air lifted to a Tulsa hospital where he died
soon after arriving. Officer Cantrell had been with the Sapulpa Police
Department two years and had served with the Vinita Police Department prior to
that as well as serving eleven years in the Navy. Officer Cantrell was single
and survived by his mother, brother and sister.
Sylvester R. "Ves" Carmack, Detective
Tulsa Police Department
Detective Carmack and his partner Detective Ben Johnston were questioning a couple of suspicious men by a car near the Sophian Plaza in the 1500 block of South Frisco Avenue on the evening of Thursday, September 12, 1946. Carmack was talking with James Oswell Neely, 17, on the passenger’s side of the car while Johnston was talking with Victor Lloyd Everhart, 23, on the driver’s side. At almost the same time both men drew guns and fired at the officers. Johnston was hit in the upper right chest and Carmack was shot through the heart. Carmack was able to shoot Neely in the leg before he died at the scene. Detective Johnston died on Friday January 3, 1947, from his wound.
Elmer L. Carter, Deputy Sheriff
Jackson County Sheriff's Office
Deputy Carter and Altus Police Officer Joe Whitt were attempting to stop a truck suspected of bringing illegal whiskey into Oklahoma from Texas about four and a half miles southwest of Altus about 9 P.M. on Friday, August 29, 1930. When the officers pulled along side of the truck and ordered the men inside to pullover the men opened fire on the officers. Both officers were wounded. Deputy Carter died shortly after the shooting. Carter left behind a wife and two young daughters.
Wallace Eugene Casey, Patrolman
Tulsa Police Department
Officer Casey was involved in a traffic accident with a truck about 2 P.M. Saturday afternoon May 11, 1957, at 47th and Union Avenue. Officer Casey died the next morning from his injuries that included a severed spinal cord. The drunk driver of the truck fled the scene but was arrested two blocks away. A wife and two daughters survived Casey.
Randolph W. Cathey, Assistant City Marshal
City of Pauls Valley
About 6:30 P.M. Sunday evening November 3, 1907, Cathey, 30, was shot and killed from ambush as he left the Valley Cafe by Jim Stephenson. Stephenson had openly threatened to kill Cathey since the Marshal had arrested Stephenson’s nephew several months earlier and had to “beat him into submission” when he resisted arrest. Cathey was single at the time
James M. Cearley, Night City Marshal
City of Sparks
About 7 A.M. Thursday morning December 8, 1927, Marshal Cearley’s body was found in Sparks. He had been shot four times from a distance close enough to set his overcoat on fire. His body was badly burned from the waist up. His unfired pistol was found several feet from his body. Four men were soon arrested for the murder. Cearley, 55, left behind a wife and four children.
James Dewey Chamblin, Patrolman
Oklahoma City Police Department
About 3: 25 A.M. Monday morning, April 15, 1974, Officer Chamblin and his partner Master Patrolman John Campbell arrested three patrons of the Tip Toe Inn tavern at NE 5th and Harrison for public drunkenness. As the officers were walking the trio out of the tavern one of them, Michael Wayne Green, turned and shot both officers at point blank range. The officers returned fire and hit Green four times. Chamblin died before reaching the hospital. Both Officer Campbell and Green survived their wounds. Green’s death sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Chamblin, 31, was married with three young children.
Chin-Chi-Kee, Captain
Chickasaw Lighthorse
Presumably a few days before January 10, 1852, Chin-Chi-Kee attempted to arrest four whiskey smugglers south of Tishomingo, the capitol of the Chickasaw Nation. A fight broke out and Chin-Chi-Kee, armed only with a knife, killed three of the men before the fourth, a Seminole Indian named Bill Nannubbee, shot him in the head and killed him.
Perry Chuculate, Deputy Sheriff
Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office
The afternoon of Friday, August 27, 1926, Deputy Chuculate was one of a group of four officers searching for a stolen car about three miles west of Sallisaw. The officers saw a car approaching them at a high rate of speed. The officers blocked the highway with their car and the speeding car stopped some distance away. Deputy Chuculate started walking toward the car with a shotgun. The men in the other car, members of the Kimes gang of bank robbers, opened fire on the officers with rifles hitting Chuculate in the right arm and lung. Sixty rounds were exchanged during the gunfight until the officers ran out of ammunition. The gang members then took one of the other officers, who had been wounded, and a passing farmer hostage and left in the officer’s car. The hostages were released near Van Buren, Arkansas. Deputy Chuculate died in the hospital shortly before 6 P.M. that afternoon. A wife, daughter and two sons survived him.
Briggs Chumley, Detective
Oklahoma City Police Department
About 1 A.M. on Monday, November 3, 1924, Chumley, a former Texas Ranger, and Detective Elmer Miller arrested Claude Newton at N.W.4th and Olie for the armed robbery of a restaurant at 1101 W. Main. After searching Newton and finding no weapons, the detectives holstered their guns. Newton then drew an undiscovered gun from inside his coveralls and shot both officers, killing the 45 year old Chumley.
Frank Cissne, Captain
Oklahoma City Police Department
Cissne was involved in a three car traffic accident at N.W. 4th and Broadway on Thursday morning, April 1, 1937. He was hospitalized with four broken ribs. His condition worsened over the next few days and he died of lumbar pneumonia on April 5th at the age of 50
David Wayne Clark, Patrolman
Shawnee Police Department
Clark, 22, became involved in a high-speed pursuit on Kickapoo Street about 4 A.M. on Saturday morning, August 16, 1980. The pursuit continued to about three miles north of Shawnee where Clark lost control of his police car. The unit ran off the road, down an embankment, overturned and burst into flames with Clark trapped inside. His parents, two sisters and a brother survived him.
Joe Cecil Clark, Deputy Sheriff
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office
On Wednesday, February 18, 1959, Deputy Clark, 59, was in Tulsa driving back to the Sheriff’s Office from Collinsville, where he had investigated a burglary, when he was broad sided by a Tulsa Fire truck at First and Boston Avenue. Clark had entered the intersection on a green light and apparently did not hear the siren or see the flashing lights of the fire truck. The 12-ton fire truck knocked Clark’s 1957 Ford approximately 35 feet into a telephone pole. The impact tore the front seat loose and ripped the top off of the car. Clark, a widower, had two adult sons
Ray Smith Clark, Sr., Patrolman
Oklahoma City Police Department
On a rainy Saturday night, May 23, 1936, at 10:30 P.M. Officer Clark, 45, and his partner, J. A. McRee were east bound on the Exchange Bridge in route to a fatality traffic accident. When they got to the end of the bridge, where it jogs to the right, McRee attempted the turn and the car skidded out of control. Clark’s passenger door came open and he fell partially out of the car. When the car slid into a telephone pole, Clark was crushed between the pole and the car killing him
Walter N. Clark, Patrolman
Tulsa Police Department
Late in the afternoon of Thursday, November 5, 1936, Officer Clark, 56, attempted to arrest Charles Hargrave, an escaped Missouri State Prison convict, for passing forged checks at a drug store at Second and Main Streets. Hargrave shot Clark in the abdomen. Clark returned fire, wounding Hargrave. Hargrave was killed in a shoot out with police later that day. Clark died from his wound at 2:30 A.M. on Thursday, December 10th. Clark left behind a wife, a son and five daughters.
Thomas Cloud, Captain
Seminole Lighthorse
On Sunday, March 29, 1885, Captain Cloud, Sam Cudgo and several other members of the Lighthorse had gone to a shack near Sacred Heart Mission ( 22 miles south of present day Shawnee ) and attempted to arrest Rector Rogers for killing his brother-in-law. Rogers began firing at the officers through the cracks of the shack. Cudgo was struck in the abdomen and died an hour later. Captain Cloud was struck in the upper left leg and died two days later, the morning of Tuesday, March 31, 1885.
James Coats, City Marshal
City of Pryor Creek
Near midnight Wednesday, December 16, 1914, Marshal Coats, 48, had located Jesse Moore at the Mayor Hotel in Pryor Creek. Moore was wanted for failing to return to court to pay his fine for public drunkenness. Marshal Coats’ friend, Austin Whitaker, accompanied him. The men went to the hotel room where Moore was registered and called for him to come out. Moore however was in the room across from his at the time and fired four shots through the door, striking the Marshal three times, once in the heart killing him. Whitaker took the dead marshal’s gun and arrested Moore. Moore was convicted and died later in prison. Coats left behind his wife Susie and eight children.
Henry Cobb, Patrolman
Bartlesville Police Department
Shortly before 11 P.M., Monday, December 30, 1935, Patrolman Cobb, 62, had gone to 518 South Kaw in reference to a drunken disturbance and attempted to arrest Robert F. Holland. Holland began backing away, drew a gun and shot the officer twice, once in one shoulder and once above the heart. Officer Cobb then struggled with Holland over the gun, during which it discharged and wounded Holland in the left hand. Holland then ran out the back door. Officer Cobb staggered out the front door and collapsed in the street in front of the house. Cobb left behind a wife, two sons and a daughter.
Theo Cobb, Trooper
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
The early morning hours of Sunday, June 24, 1951 Troopers Cobb and Charles Branch were finishing up their investigation of a traffic accident on Highway 76 two miles north of Fox in Carter County. Trooper Cobb stepped out form behind a wrecker and saw a car approaching at a high rate of speed and tried to slow it down by waving his flashlight at the driver. The speeding car struck Cobb knocking him 57 feet. The car sped away without stopping. Trooper Cobb, 43, died approximately three hours later at 5:45 A.M. in the Hardy Sanitarium in Ardmore. Cobb’s wife Julia, a son and two daughters survived him.
James Daniel Coffee, Deputy Sheriff
Wilbarger County Texas Sheriff's Office
Between 5 and 6 P.M. on Friday, February 15, 1918, Deputy Coffee and Fargo (TX) Constable Jim Edwards went to the Oklahoma side of the Red River at the Webb Crossing in an attempt to stop and arrest bootleggers who were reported to be bringing whiskey into Oklahoma from Wichita Falls, Texas at this point. Soon after arriving on the north side of the river a car approached with it’s curtains drawn. When the car stopped to pay the toll, Deputy Coffee stepped to the car and drew back a curtain. The two men in the car opened fire on the officers. Deputy Coffee was shot in the abdomen with a double-barral sawed off shotgun by Charlie Holden, who escaped. The other man in the car were arrested. Deputy Coffee, age 45, died at 3 A.M. the next morning, February 16th. Deputy Coffee was survived by a wife and five young children. Charlie Holden, who was out on bond for the killing of Cleveland County Deputy Sheriff Grover Fulkerson, was later captured and pled guilty to Deputy Coffee’s murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
John Cogburn, Deputy Sheriff
Roger Mills Country Sheriff's Office
On Monday, June 30, 1902, Sheriff Andrew J. Bullard and his Deputy John Cogburn were investigating reports of stolen cattle and horses. They located a group consisting of four men, a woman and two children about 6 P.M. eight miles north of the town of Cheyenne. While Deputy Cogburn talked with the rest of the group Sheriff Bullard talked to a man named Frank Doan. While talking they observed a man, Pete Whitehead pass a gun to another man, Sam Green. The Sheriff started to ride toward the two men as Doan rode away. After a few minutes Doan heard some gunshots and saw the Sheriff fall as Whitehead and Green rode away. Returning to the camp, Doan found Sheriff Bullard dead from eleven wounds from a shotgun blast. Deputy Cogburn was also dead from being shot in the back. The suspects, believed to be members of the Bert Casey Gang, had taken the Sheriff’s horse and rifle with them.
Culpepper "Cub" Colbert, Deputy Sheriff
Panola County Sheriff's Office
Panola County was in the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory, an area that encompassed portions of the current Bryan and Marshall counties west of Durant. Deputy Colbert was assigned to keep the peace at a dance that went into the early morning hours of Saturday, December 14, 1878. About 4 A.M. Deputy Colbert took a gun away from a drunk man named Ben Kemp. Kemp hit the deputy in the head with a cane and Colbert shot him in the side, inflicting a flesh wound. As Deputy Colbert was leaving one of Kemp’s sons shot the deputy in the left side with a shotgun, nearly severing his left arm and killing him almost instantly.
G. T. Cole, Deputy Sheriff
McCurtain County Sheriff's Office
On Wednesday, November 21, 1917, Deputy Cole arrested a U. S. Army deserter named Homer Nyles at a logging operation of the Choctaw Lumber Company. After the deputy holstered his gun Nyles grabbed a hidden rifle and shot Cole fatally in the stomach
Wesley Green Cole, Deputy Sheriff
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office
Deputy Cole, 46, was working off-duty security for the Camelot Inn Hotel, at I-44 and Peoria in Tulsa the early morning hours of Thursday, June 9, 1972. About 2 A.M. Cole was checking for a reported suspicious person prowling around cars in the parking lot. Cole found Bobby Lynn Clark, 25 in the parking lot. Cole approached Clark and asked for some identification. Clark drew a .25 automatic pistol, fired five rounds and shot Cole in the heart. Cole was able to wound Clark before he fell dead. Clark was found dead a few blocks away in his car. Cole left behind a wife, a son and three daughters.
Ben C. Collins, Officer/Deputy U.S. Marshal
U.S. Indian Police/U.S. Marshals
About 9:30 P.M. the evening of Wednesday, August 1, 1906, Collins was riding through the gate to his pasture on his way home, about 200 yards from his home located between Emet and Nida, when he was shot from his horse by ambush with an eight-gauge shotgun. Collins was able to fire at his assailant four times before he was shot fatally in the face. Deacon Jim Miller was arrested for the murder but released
Glen M. Collins, Lake Ranger
Shawnee Police Department
At 11:43 A.M. on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, Ranger Collins, 72, was north bound on State Highway 102 in his city pickup when he attempted to turn left onto Belcher Road. An 18-wheel gravel truck south bound on the highway struck Collins’ pickup broadside on the passenger side causing it to flip over killing Collins. Collins had been a Lake Ranger for Shawnee for 38 years. He was survived by his wife Freda, their daughter Dixie and two grandsons.
Glen and Freda were to celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary on December 27th.
Mitchell Compier, Deputy Sheriff
Hughes County Sheriff's Office
Deputy Compier, 44, and young Wetumka Police Officer Weldon Wilson, 22, were conducting undercover prohibition investigations when on April 10, 1926, they made a whiskey purchase from Roswell Hamilton, 30. The officers arrested Hamilton as soon as he sold them the whiskey and took a .38 pistol off of him. The officers were transporting Hamilton to jail by car with Deputy Compier driving, Hamilton in the passenger’s seat and Officer Wilson standing on the right side running board. Hamilton later related that Wilson had been poking him in the side with his gun trying to get Hamilton to tell where he got the whiskey they bought. Following one of the pokes Hamilton brushed the gun away and it accidentally went off twice. One bullet struck Hamilton in the arm and the other struck Compier. Hamilton then took the gun away from Wilson and shot him twice fatally. He then shot Compier to death before he could draw his weapon.
Bernard "Barney" Connelley, Deputy U.S. Marshal
U.S. Marshals
On Wednesday, August 19, 1891, Deputy Connelley attempted to arrest Shepard ”Shep” Busby on warrants for adultery at his home on Lee’s Creek about 15 miles from Fort Smith in the Cherokee Nation. Witnesses heard shots and approached the scene in time to see Busby fleeing in to the woods and found Connelley shot dead. Busby surrendered about a week later. He was tried, convicted and hanged on April 27, 1892 at Fort Smith
D. B. Cook, Constable
City of Ardmore
About 2 A.M. on Tuesday, November 3, 1908, Constable Cook attempted to arrest a John Braziel for causing a disturbance on Main Street when the man drew a gun and shot the constable in the face. Constable Cook lived four hours after being shot. Braziel was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Gary Lee Cook, Reserve Deputy Sheriff
Rogers County Sheriff's Office
At 6:30 A.M. Saturday, October 17, 1998, Deputy Cook, 46, was directing traffic for a youth soccer tournament on Highway 266 at Keetonville Road when a vehicle struck him. The driver of the car and his male passenger ran from the car after it hit Cook, skidded 400 feet, hit a street sign and ran off the road into a ditch. They were both later arrested. His mother and two brothers survived Deputy Cook
Sim Carlton Cook, City Marshal
City of Woodville
On Friday, November 21, 1930, Marshal Cook, 46, was attempting to arrest George Morrison, Constable of Woodville and alleged bootlegger, for selling liquor. Morrison resisted arrest and Cook knocked him down. While George Morrison was on the ground his brother Felix said something to Marshal Cook, distracting him long enough for George to draw his gun and shot Marshal Cook. The shot tore through Cook’s face, just below the nose and came out through the top of his head. Cook was survived by his wife and six children.
Dewitt Clinton Cooley, Jailer
Tulsa County
About 10:30 P.M, Wednesday, September 15, 1915, Night Jailer Cooley was locking up for the night when one of the prisoners, John Murphy, who somehow had pried his cell door open, struck Cooley in the head with an iron casting causing a gaping wound and a fractured skull. Murphy drug Cooley into a cell and locked it. He then released another prisoner, William Moore. Cooley’s wife had brought him supper and upon hearing the disturbance went into the cell area and was also struck in the head and locked in a cell. The two prisoners then released a third man, Charles Smith and escaped. Mrs. Cooley recovered from her wound but D. C. Cooley died a week later at 9:30 A.M. on Wednesday, September 22, 1915. Cooley was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
Silas W. "Cy" Cope, Assistant Chief Of Police
Wewoka Police Department
On January 29, 1928, Cope had accompanied Seminole County Deputy Sheriff Bud Gordon in taking a mental patient to the state hospital in Norman. On the way back the officers stopped about 5:30 P.M. to eat in Saint Louis, an oil boomtown, eight miles from Maud. As the officers were leaving the restaurant, someone open fire on them from ambush. Cope was hit three times and Deputy Gordon returned fire but the man escaped. Cope was taken to the hospital but died at 7 P.M. that evening. A bootlegger named T. F. “Red” Griffin was later convicted of the murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Frank L. Cornelius, Special Officer
Santa Fe Railroad
About 10 A.M. Tuesday January 18, 1921, Special Officer Cornelius, 30, was walking in the 100 block of West Noble Street (later renamed Southwest Second Street) in Oklahoma City in route to the railroad yard when two armed men approached him and tried to rob him. Cornelius drew his gun and a gun battle ensued where some twenty shots were fired in all. The two robbers escaped but not before one of them was wounded. Cornelius was also wounded and taken to University Hospital. Cornelius was conscious until just before he died at 1 A.M. the morning of Thursday January 20th. In late March, Harry Henry and Bailey Owen were arrested and charged with killing Cornelius. They were later convicted of his murder and sentenced to terms in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Cornelius was a World War I veteran having been wounded twice in battle and had received the Distinguished Service Cross (the second highest medal for combat valor, behind only he Medal of Honor) and the Croix de Guerre for valor in combat I Germany and France. He had been a Norman police officer and a city attorney at Wynnewood before going to work for the Santa Fe Railroad about a year before his death. He was survived by his two brothers and a sister and is buried in Wynnewood..
Harley Richard Cottingham, Special Agent
U.S. Department of Defense Investigative Services
Cottingham had been an agent for the Defense Investigative Service for eleven years when he was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Joseph W. Cotton, Chief of Police
Wewoka Police Department
Chief Cotton rode with Officer Carl Sullinger about 7:15 P.M., Saturday, June 27, 1953, to a disturbance call involving a mental patient named Joe Sisney, 60, who was carrying a 16-gauge shotgun. As the officers pulled up in front of the house, Sisney opened fire on them. The first shot blew out one of the police car’s windows and hit Cotton in the head and Sullinger in the shoulder. The two officers got out of the car, took cover on the driver’s side and returned fire. At one point Chief Cotton raised up to shoot and was wounded in the face by another shotgun blast and was killed. A wife, two sons and a daughter survived Chief Cotton.
Fred Beaumont Counts, Patrolman
Oklahoma City Police Department
Officer Counts, 27, was the passenger in a police car that was involved in a collision with a fire truck at N.E. 10th and Durland late Monday night, August 22, 1938. The police car, driven by Officer L. R. Puett, and the fire truck were responding to the same fire call with red lights flashing and sirens sounding. Officer Counts was killed in the crash and Officer Puett’s chest was crushed but he survived. Four firemen were also injured when the fire truck turned over
Ray F. Cowan, Captain
Tulsa Police Department
While serving as desk sergeant in the jail, Cowan interceded in a fight between a prisoner and another officer. Cowan received a severe blow to the head. Cowen was later promoted to Captain in 1936 and retired in 1946. He died on February 4, 1947, six months after retiring, do to both a heart attack and the after-effects of the head injury.
Leroy F. Cowles, Patrolman
Tulsa Police Department
On Friday afternoon, September 8, 1961, Officer Cowles was involved in a traffic accident at Denver Avenue and 15th Street while pursuing a speeding motorist on his police motorcycle. Officer Cowles was thrown over the top of the car he struck and died from multiple injuries including a crushed chest and fractured skull. The other driver was slightly injured in the accident. The speeding motorist was never identified.
Albert Jerald "Abe" Cox, Prison Farm Supervisor
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
Correctional Officer Cox, 47, was a supervisor at the State Penitentiary’s chicken farm on the prison grounds in McAlester on Saturday, March 5, 1977. At 12:40 P.M. that day both Cox and inmate trustee Edward Lyle Hall, 30, were discovered missing. At 4:45 P.M. Cox’s body was found in a chicken coop with multiple stab wounds and his throat slashed. Trustee Hall had taken Cox’s prison pickup and drove 80 miles southwest to the Washita River near Tishomingo where he kidnapped a farmer and his young son. A short time later he released them unharmed and took their car. Hall was tracked to Florida but never found. Cox left behind a wife and two children
David S. Cox, Deputy Sheriff
Hughes County Sheiff's Office
About noon on Friday, January 31, 1908, a gun shot and an outcry were heard from inside C. E. Sneed’s shooting gallery in Holdenville. Rushing inside bystanders found Deputy Cox shot in the left breast area. He died forty minutes later at the doctor’s office. Before dying Cox stated that Sneed showed him an unloaded gun then loaded it, pointed it at Cox and snapped the trigger. Cox then exclaimed to him not to snap it again, but Sneed did and the gun fired. Cox had previously searched Sneed’s business for stolen property. Sneed was later acquitted of the charges. Deputy Cox left behind a wife and seven children.
John Thomas "Tom" Cox, Constable/Deputy Sheriff
City of Konawa/Seminole County Sheriff's Office
On Wednesday evening August 16, 1933, Constable Cox and Deputy Constable Andrew Stephens were attempting to arrest Wiley Williams at a gas station in Konawa where he had tried to pay for some gas with a bad check. Cox told Williams to get in the police car but Williams drew a gun. Cox grabbed the gun and wrestled for it. Williams fired twice, shooting Cox in the abdomen and Stephens in the foot. Stephens returned fire but Williams escaped until recaptured later that night.. Constable Cox was taken to an Ada hospital where he was operated on for the wound to his bladder but he died about 8 P.M. Cox, 72, had been widowed a month earlier but was survived by five daughters and a son.
Robert "Bob" Cox, Deputy U.S. Marshal
U.S. Marshals
About 3 A.M. the morning of Sunday, April 13, 1890, Deputy Cox and Deputy U. S. Marshal Charley Canon arrested and handcuffed Ed Louthers for selling whiskey during a barn dance in Claremore. A father and son named Alex and Jesse Cochran witnessed the arrest and decided to free Louthers from the deputies. As Deputy Cox reached into a closet to retrieve his rifle, Alex Cochran shot him in the neck and shoulders. Deputy Canon returned fire and the men fired a dozen shots, one striking Cox in the thigh. The Cochrans and Louthers, still wearing the handcuffs, escaped during the gunfire. Although Cox’s wounds were first thought “not serious”, he died the next day April 14th.
Larry Verne Crabtree, Trooper
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
About 5 P.M. on Monday, April 4, 1977, Trooper Crabtree, 43, stopped a Red Volkswagon with Missouri plates three miles west of Bristow on the Turner Turnpike. As he approached the driver’s side of the vehicle, he was shot once in the chest with a .410 shotgun and died almost instantly. The red vehicle left but was soon stopped 13 miles down the turnpike. Five persons were taken into custody however only a Missouri runaway named Monte Lee Eddings, 16, was charged with the murder as an adult. Eddings was convicted and sentenced to death but his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. A wife and three sons survived Trooper Crabtree.
Henry B. Crane, Deputy Sheriff
Muskogee County Sheriffs Office
The night of Wednesday, June 17, 1914, Deputy Crane, 34, and Deputy Sheriff Jim Barnes were ordered to ride out to the R. M. Chesser cabin near McLain to provide protection for Chesser’s sixteen year old daughter, Ruth, who Chesser feared would be kidnapped. When the deputies arrived Crane jumped over the fence while Barnes was tying up the horses. Crane was immediately fired upon by shotguns from the cabin and wounded. Deputy Barnes returned to Muskogee and returned with a posse the next morning. Deputy Crane had died during the night. The elderly Chesser and a friend, W. A. Reeve mistook Crane for a kidnapper and were arrested for the shooting. Crane had been a deputy for seven years.
Benjamin Franklin Cravatt, Detective
Oklahoma City Police Department
The evening of Friday, July 16, 1954, Detective Cravatt had received information on a possible abduction of the assistant store manager at the Jones Boys Supermarket at S.E. 44th and Shields. Believing that the suspects may return and try to open the safe Detective Cravatt waited inside the store while his partner Detective Bill Rackley waited outside. Two suspects soon returned with Fanny Ransom, the store’s bookkeeper, who was kidnapped from her home and brought to the store to open the safe. Cravatt ordered the two men to surrender but he was jumped by one of them. Before Detective Rackley could get inside the store he heard shots from inside and saw a man running from the store. Rackley exchanged shots with the man but he got away. Inside Rackley found Cravatt dead on the floor from a gun shot through his heart. Nearby was Raymond Carroll Price, wounded in the leg. The next day a wounded Hurbie Franklin Farris, Jr. was arrested in Shawnee. Further investigation led to the arrest of James Edward Skinner. Price and Skinner were convicted and given life sentences. Farris, the trigger-man, was given a death sentence and died in Oklahoma’s electric chair on January 18, 1956.
Frank Crews, Deputy Sheriff
Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office
About 9 P.M. on Saturday night, September 5, 1953, Deputy Crews and Undersheriff A. I. Rutherford went to the Denham Hotel at Ninth and Union in Shawnee concerning a man pulling a gun on another man. As the officers approached the west entrance to the hotel they were met by 75-year-old Jess Stalcup, coming out of the hotel. The officers stopped him and questioned him about the incident. While they were talking to Stalcup, the complainant, Mr. Ewers, came out of the hotel and indicated to the officers that Stalcup was the man with the gun. Stalcup then drew a concealed .45 automatic pistol and emptied it toward the officers. Deputy Crews was hit four times in the stomach and side. Rutherford and two bystanders were also wounded but not as seriously. Rutherford shot Stalcup three times in the neck and chest. Both Deputy Crews, 54, and Stalcup died at the scene. Deputy Crews was survived by his wife
John Cross, Deputy Sheriff
Seminole County Sheriff's Office
On Tuesday, March 29, 1927, Deputy Cross stopped a car three miles south of Seminole on the highway between Seminole and Wewoka. Unknown to Cross the three men in the car were wanted for an armed robbery they committed the night before. During the traffic stop one of the men in the car shot the deputy twice in the stomach. The men then drove off and Deputy Cross was taken to a hospital in Shawnee. The three men were all in custody by the next day. Deputy Cross died a few hours after identifying one of the men, Bill Jones, as the man who shot him, from his hospital bed.
John E. Cross, City Marshal
City of Geary
On Monday night, July 6, 1903, Marshal Cross, 40, was riding home to his wife and six children. He never made it home. His body was found early the next morning in a wheatfield. He had been shot in the stomach and groin. A farmer who lived close by told of hearing three shots about 10:30 P.M. but thought nothing of it in that area. He also mentioned that three men had been camped nearby but were gone that morning. The Marshal’s gun, silver watch and badge were missing. Suspicion soon centered on two fugitive brothers, Will and Sam Martin. The Martin’s were killed a month later in a shootout with other officers and Marshal Cross’s badge and watch were found in their possession.
John M. Cross, Sheriff
Stevens County Sheriff's Office, Kansas
Stevens County, Kansas was just north of what was then called “No man’s land” and later became the Oklahoma panhandle. The towns of Hugoton and Woodsdale in Stevens County became embroiled in a bitter county seat war in 1886. Hugoton was finally named the county seat. John M. Cross was elected Sheriff of Steven’s County over Sam Robinson in a desperately fought race. The embittered Robinson became City Marshal of Hugoton. In early 1888, City Marshal Robinson processed some county bonds to try and encourage railroad development in the area. His opponents claimed he had illegally overstepped his authority and got a warrant issued for Robinson’s arrest. Robinson and some of his allies fought off attempts to serve the warrant in Hugoton. In July of 1888, Robinson went into “No man’s land” on a camping trip. Woodsdale City Marshal Ed Short and a posse were sent to arrest Robinson while he was away from Hugoton. Unable to locate Robinson, Marshal Short sent back word for more men. County Sheriff Cross deputized a posse of four men, Ted Eaton, Bob Hubbard, Roland Wilcox and Herbert Tooney and rode out to assist Marshal Short. In the mean time Short had lost his way and became involved in a gun battle with a posse from Hugoton that pursued him back to Woodsdale Robinson had learned that Short and his posse were searching for him and returned to Hugoton, recruited a 15-man posse and started back to “No man’s land” after Short, unaware that he had already been chased back to Woodsdale. On Wednesday, July 25, 1888, unable to find Short or Robinson, Sheriff Cross and his men were returning back to Woodsdale when they encountered some men working in a hayfield. The officers bedded down for the night in the hayfield in what is now northern Cimarron County, Oklahoma. The officers were awakened a few hours later and found themselves the prisoners of Marshal Robinson and his posse. One by one Sheriff Cross and his deputies were gunned down by Robinson and his men. The hay workers witnessed the shootings but were not harmed. Robinson and posse then returned to Hugoton. Sheriff Cross, Deputies Ted Eaton, Bob Hubbard and Roland Wilcox died at the scene but Deputy Herbert Tooney survived to testify against Robinson. Marshal Robinson and five of his possemen were tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged by the Federal Court in Paris, Texas. They were all released later when the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the Paris Court had no jurisdiction in the case as “No Man’s Land” was not part of the United States at the time. They were never tried again. ( “No Man’s Land” was made a part of the Oklahoma Territory by The Oklahoma Organic Act of 1890.)
Howard M. Crumley, Trooper
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Shortly before midnight, Sunday, June 28, 1970, Trooper Crumley was found dead about three miles west of Lone Grove on Highway 70. Crumley had been shot twice with his own revolver. It is believed that Trooper Crumley, 35, had been working radar and stopped the Wilkenson brothers, Ray and Hubert, after they had robbed and murdered a 75-year-old man in Comanche County. Trooper Crumley left behind a wife and three sons
Green Pryor William Cude, Deputy Sheriff
Grady County Sheriff’s Office
Monday morning April 19, 1909, about 9 A.M. Deputies Cude and Marshall went to the home of Jim Moore near Alex to arrest him for forcing everyone out of his house at gun point. Moore is described as an Indian who was recently released from the insane asylum at Ft. Supply. When the officers arrived Moore met them at the gate and invited them in to the house. Both officers refused. Moore then walked to the back of the house and returned with a shot gun. He sat down in front of the house with the gun across his knees. Finally Deputy Cude, 36, thought he could talk Moore into surrendering and agreed to go into the house to talk with him. Moore walked to the door and as Deputy Cude got near him Cude tried to grab the shot gun from Moore but Moore shot him in the chest and face killing him instantly. Deputy Marshall then backed out of the yard as Moore aimed the shot gun at him. Deputy Marshall sent word to Alex for a posse. When the posse of armed men arrived at the scene Moore ran to a field behind the house. Moore then fired at the approaching posse and they returned fire killing him. Deputy Cude was survived by his wife Lucy and five children.
Sam Cudgo, Officer
Seminole Lighthorse
Officer Cudgo was part of a Lighthorse posse led by Captain Thomas Cloud on Sunday, March 29, 1885. The posse was attempting to arrest Rector Roberts when he barricaded himself in a hut and opened fire on the posse. The first shot hit Officer Cudgo in the stomach and the next bullet struck Captain Cloud in the left leg. The posse returned fire and killed Roberts. Officer Cudgo died within the hour. Captain Cloud died two days later.
Billy Cully, Officer
Seminole Lighthorse
Officer Cully had been trying to serve a warrant on Alex Harjo for a fight
that had occurred just before the previous Christmas. Officer Cully was found
dead in a shack near his home in Sasakwa on Monday, February 5, 1906. His skull
had been crushed with a blunt instrument. Harjo and Barney Fixico were charged
with the murder the next month.
Spear Cushman Crossley, Deputy Sheriff
Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office
On June 15, 1922, Deputy Crossley located a fugitive driving a stolen car near the old State Fairgrounds at Reno and Eastern in Oklahoma City. Crossley took the fugitive to jail, leaving the stolen car behind. Later that evening Crossley returned with other deputies to recover the car. Unknown to the deputies, several Oklahoma City Police Officers had noticed the car and set up surveillance on it. The city officers approached the county deputies. In the rural darkness each group of officers mistook the other for the thieves. A few shots were fired before they figured out who the other group was but it was to late. Deputy Crossley had been shot once in the head and died on the way to the hospital. Deputy Crossley died a month before his 55th birthday.