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Charles Quincy Lukens

Case from Rosedale, KS dated Dec 08, 1909

Victim Details

Charles Quincy Lukens

Male

Rosedale

KS

1909-12-08

35

Charles

Quincy Lukens

06/25/2026

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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 ...
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