The Great K & A Train Robbery

(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.)   · Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: Jailer Jess Blanpied · It’s Monday, January 17, 1927, in Hutchinson, Kansas. Sheriff Fay. F. Brown’s Badge is down at the sheriff’s office pinned to the sheriff’s vest. Cora Brown, matron and cook at the Reno County Jail, and Jess Blanpied, an old-time county jailer, are in the jail’s kitchen. “Jess, how are your children?” asked Matron-Cook Cora Brown, as she sat down at … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: Jailer Jess Blanpied