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| Homer Riggle
On February 28, 1913, Officer Homer Riggle answered
a call that the saloon at 19th Street and Brooklyn Avenue was being
robbed. He found and arrested the two robbers on 19th Street, and
was within 150 feet of the Flora Avenue police station when the
two men attacked him. A witness reported that one of the men jumped
on his back, and grabbed his gun. The men then separated and both
shot at Riggle, wounding him fatally. The sound of the gunfire brought
out policeman from the nearby station, as well as residents of the
area. The group - numbering approximately 100 - chased the two robbers
for five miles across Kansas City, tracking them by their footsteps
in new snow. The crowd eventually lost them when they ran in to
an area that was covered in many footprints.
Officer Riggle became
a policeman in 1909. He was thirty-seven years old
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William J. Hauserman
Officer Hauserman
was a member of the department's "strong arm squad" responsible
for keeping down vice in the Walnut Street Station district. His
squad had frequently raided the sallon at 1204 Troost and Officer
Hauserman had been the target of many threats by the saloon's owner,
John Brennan. Brennan also threatened to use his influence with
a friend of his, Tom Pendergast, to get even with the officers for
raiding his establishment and harassing him. On January 31st,
1915, as Officer Hauserman was using the telephone at the candy
store at 12th and Troost, Brennan walked up behind the officer and
shot him in the back. As Officer Hauserman turned towards his assailant,
Brennan fired another shot at Officer Hauserman's head, killing
him. Brennan was caught and prosecuted.
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John F. Houlehan
Born: April 4, 1856
December 16, 1916, Officers John F. Houlehan and Jerome M. Fells
were on duty near the Bonaventure Hotel on Independence Boulevard
and Park Avenue, when they noticed a young man acting suspiciously.
Fells asked him to stop, and the man drew his revolver on them.
Houlehan attempted to draw his gun, and was shot. Fells was then
also shot. Houlehan was taken to the hospital, where he died December
23, 1916.
Officer Houlehan began his career with the Kansas Ctiy Police
Department as a jailer on January 22, 1890. He was appointed to
the department on January 22, 1896, and reappointed November 17,
1915.
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Glenn Marshall
Born: December 7, 1886
On August 24, 1916 Officers Glenn Marshall and Phillip
V. Neff responded to a call from a landlord who was being threatened
by a delusional tenant. By the time the officers arrived, the tenant
- a Dr. Fred Larkin - had broken through the landlord's door and
was attempting to injure him. The officers pursued Larkin through
the building, Larkin armed and firing two weapons until one gun
was lost in the chase. Both officers were gravely wounded, Neff
physically struggled with Larkin until they both lost consciousness.
Marshall was shot numerous times, and died of his injuries that
day. An autopsy on Larkin revealed that he had been high on a combination
of morphine, heroin, and cocaine at the time of his attempted arrest.
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| William A. Spangler
On September 5, 1916, Officers William A. Spangler
and C.E. Bricker were involved in a struggle with Glenn White, a
train porter, at 28th and Harrison Streets, when Bricker was injured
and Spangler fatally wounded by a blackjack. Officer Spangler died
of his wounds September 8, 1916, at St. Mary's Hospital.
Officer
Spangler became a probationary patrolman May 21, 1914, and a regular
patrolman in 1915. He worked out of the Walnut Street station at
the time of his death, and had been active in vice raids. He was
thirty-seven years old at the time of his death.
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