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John P. Cates
Type of Officer: Special Officer
Jurisdiction: Santa Fe Railroad
County: Sumner
Type of Crime: None
Type of Death: Gunshot
Death Date: 6/1/1911
Year Added: 2007
Circumstances of death:
Shortly after midnight on June 1, 1911, Santa Fe Railway Special Officer John Cates was checking security seals on the freight cars of a train that had just arrived in the rail yards at Wellington. Loaded freight cars were temptation to thieves and special security precautions were taken by Santa Fe special officers at every division stop. As Special Officer Cates was
examining freight cars at the rear of the train, several shots were fired by unknown assailants and Cates was fatally wounded. Special Officer Cates was 46 years old at the time of his death. He formerly was the Guthrie, Oklahoma police chief.
 

William T. Cody
Type of Officer: Constable
Jurisdiction: Beaumont
County:Butler
Death Date: 4/2/1885
Added to Memorial: 2006
Circumstances of Death:
William T. Cody was fatally wounded by gunfire while attempting to arrest Dave Hensey on June 2, 1885 at a railroad contractor’s office in Beaumont. Hensey a railroad foreman was wanted for shooting a man at a railroad camp near Beaumont.
 

D. F. Calhoun
Type of Officer: Railroad Detective
Jurisdiction: Railroad
County: Chautauqua
Death Date: 4/12/1905
Added to Memorial: 2006
Circumstances of Death:
On the morning of July 12, 1905, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Detective D. F. Calhoun was fatally wounded by gunfire while attempting to arrest William Chadburn and Ed Madigan for the robbery of several travelers at the Brittum Hotel in Winfield. The shooting occurred on a road near the city limits of Cedar Vale. A resident of Norwood, Missouri, Railroad Detective Calhoun formerly served as a deputy sheriff and city marshal in Galena, Kansas. He was forty years old at the time of his death and left a wife and three children.
 

Richard A. Calhoun
Type of Officer: Constable
Jurisdiction Yale
County: Crawford
Death Date: 12/11/1904
Added to Memorial: 1992
Circumstances of Death:
Sandy Calhoun was shot and killed at 2:00 P.M. December 11, 1904 while attempting to pull his revolver from his pocket to "quiet an obstreperous prisoner" named Jim Davis. Constable Calhoun caught Davis in the act of burglarizing the residence of Samuel Stanton in Yale and placed him under arrest. He took his prisoner to the Turner Hall saloon to wait for transportation to the jail in
Pittsburg. Davis became unruly and decided that he wanted to leave. Just as Calhoun pulled his revolver his elbow struck the edge of the bar which caused it to be knocked from his hand. When it hit the floor it discharged and struck him. He died five minutes later. Davis escaped in the confusion. Calhoun's gun was a 3[0] caliber Colt's on a forth-one frame. The Pittsburgh Daily Headlight considered this model a "hard shooter". He had served as an acting constable off and on for 4 years at the time of his death. Calhoun served in Company D, 20th Infantry in the Spanish American War and operated a barber shop in Yale when not serving as acting constable. He was 35 years old and left a wife and two children.

Tom Carson
Type of Officer: Police Officer
Jurisdiction Salina
County: Saline
Death Date: 11/29