Charles Quincy Lukens

Death by Force

Charles Quincy Lukens, 35, male, was a Wyandotte County deputy sheriff in Rosedale, Kansas, on December 8, 1909, when a routine civil duty turned deadly. That afternoon he accompanied the town’s night marshal to serve divorce papers on a man named Charles T. Galloway. When confronted, Galloway resisted, fled, and fired a. 38-caliber revolver as the officers tried to stop him. In the exchange that followed, Lukens was struck and fatally wounded, dying in the line of duty during the attempted se ...Read More

Deputy Sheriff Charles Quincy Lukens

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