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Enos McCracken

Case from Kiowa-city, AL dated Mar 19, 1908

Victim Details

Enos McCracken

Male

White / Caucasian

Kiowa-city

AL

1908-03-19

44

Enos

McCracken

06/21/2026

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Enos L. “Bud” McCracken, a 44-year-old man, was the sheriff of Barber County, Kansas, when a warrant turned into a killing on the night of March 19, 1908. Contemporary accounts place the shooting in Kiowa, Kansas, not Kiowa City, Alabama. McCracken and Kiowa City Marshal Bunton went to the home of James Clark, an older local bootlegger, to arrest him on a warrant for selling whiskey. Clark had already been avoiding officers and had reportedly barricaded himself inside his house. When the off ...
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