(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Line-of-Duty Deaths· It’s September 1, 1927. Reno County Sheriff Fay Brown is driving to Wichita to attend a funeral service for a Wichita motorcycle officer who was killed in a pistol battle with bandits. * Fay understood death, or at least the ramifications of death. When both his parents died while he was a young child, his life drastically changed. Fay was farmed out, … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Line-of-Duty Deaths
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Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Ralph Galpin
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) · Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Ralph Galpin · On the morning of July 14, 1927, Ralph Galpin, 13, was attempting to escape an abusive step-father in Belpre, Kansas. * Ralph, 13, begged his mother, Vesta Mae, to leave Sam. Instead, she chose to remain with her husband and other children. She told Ralph to hop a freight train to Galesburg, Illinois, which used to be home—a marriage ago—and for him to stay … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Ralph Galpin
