· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Kansas City Monarchs Baseball· It's Friday, July 29, 1927, in Hutchinson, Kansas. The day is heating up. It will be a scorcher. * The past week had been a challenge for Sheriff Fay Brown, 36. He was skilled at catching criminals, but having them behave and keeping them locked up in an old jail, was another matter. Every day, prisoner Bill Coyle was acting crazier; like a bad virus, Roy Jones was mimicking Coyle’s destructive behavior; and Truman Reynolds was … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Kansas City Monarchs Baseball
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Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Bad Boy of Arlington
· Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Bad Boy of Arlington· * It was July 19, 1927. Truman Reynolds, 18, had rubbed Reno County Sheriff Fay F. Brown the wrong way ever since the boy was fifteen-years-old. The youth, who the local paper had dubbed the “Bad Boy of Arlington,” (located 15 miles SW of Hutchinson) was pure trouble. * Sheriff Fay Brown was sick in bed on the second floor of his residence when, shortly before midnight, he heard a noise on the west side of the jail building. He peered … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Bad Boy of Arlington