John Crane

Death by Force

John A. Crane, a 37-year-old police officer with the Denison Police Department in Texas, tragically died on September 12, 1907, from complications related to a gunshot wound he sustained on November 10, 1901. Crane, who was of Caucasian ethnicity, was responding to a disturbance call around 1:00 a.m. when he was shot by George Puryear, a 19-year-old man from the Indian Territory .

Puryear had been drinking heavily and claimed he had been robbed at a bawdy house. As Crane approached the sc ...Read More

Officer John A. Crane