(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Martin E. Jolliffe and Oil Hill· It’s Wednesday, August 10, 1927. Reno County Sheriff’s Deputy Martin E. Jolliffe is returning to Hutchinson, Kansas, on the Hutchinson Southern Railway after picking up an alleged automobile thief in Ponca City, Oklahoma. * Reno County Deputy Martin E. Jolliffe, 64, and his prisoner, Ralph Fleeman, 26, were preparing to board the train at … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Martin E. Jolliffe and Oil Hill
Grant County Sheriff Frank Hamilton
A Day I Shall Never Forget
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · "A Day I Shall Never Forget: Citizens Bank Hold Up" · There are people in the world who crave to have their fifteen minutes of fame. They wish to be widely recognized for attaining a personal achievement or for participating in a spectacular event. That was not the case for Bessie Olson when on May 28, 1924, she was working as a cashier in the Citizens Bank of Lamont, Oklahoma. At about noon, Bessie … [Read more...] about A Day I Shall Never Forget
