Oscar G. Bodley

In the pre-dawn hours of August 29, 1906, a sense of duty weighed heavily on the shoulders of Oscar G. Bodley, a 47-year-old Special Officer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Police Department. For two years, he had diligently patrolled the railroad yards in Ottawa, Kansas, a place of constant motion and occasional shadows. On this particular Wednesday morning, at approximately 3 o'clock, those shadows concealed a danger that would abruptly end his watch.

Bodley was making hi ...

Special Officer Oscar G. Bodley