Anthony Krizek

Death by Force

Anthony Korizek, 43, male, was a deputy sheriff in Lewis and Clark County when his final morning in Helena began with the routine duty of escorting a prisoner from a jail cell to the courthouse. The summer light on Friday, August 12, 1904, filtered through the halls of justice as he moved his charge along, a man already notorious in the city for a brazen scheme to extort $50,000 from the Northern Pacific Railroad. Unseen beneath a lunch tray, the prisoner had secreted a handgun into the building ...Read More

Deputy Sheriff Anthony Korizek - Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP)

HIstory - Copy Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Office

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