A week after the killing of a Mexican at the Rock Island depot at Gallatin, another murder...
1913: Murder of Passion at Dockery Park in Gallatin, MO
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Crime Stories
Mining War Gunfighter Jim Warford (alias Jim Lambert)
Daviess County, MO, links to legends of America's Old West are many. During the mining wars...
1910: A Suicide Occurs in the Daviess County Courthouse
Suicide, though technically a crime, is more readily described as personal tragedy. In 1910...
Younger, Cummins Visit Here During the ‘After Years’
Cole Younger and Jim Cummins, two of the most noted characters in the Middle West, are visited...
1909: Nitro Chism Gang Hits Jamesport, Shoots the City Marshal
There are few instances in the history of Daviess County when officers of the law were forced to...
1906: Furniture Feud Results in Murder at Altamont, MO
In 1906 Dr. T.B. Jackson, a prominent citizen and businessman of Altamont almost since that town...
1899: Fraud Ensnares Two Gallatin Men at the Street Fair
In 1899 two Gallatin men were duped by a fence man, signing "contracts" that later turn up as...
1899: Infanticide Victim Discovered at Pattonsburg, MO
The sad and wicked deed of a depraved mother from Maryville is discovered at Pattonsburg, MO, in...
1887: Unsolved Murder of John Gagan in Daviess County, MO
A terrible crime was committed in the north part of Daviess County in December, 1887, by which a...
Gallows for Joe Jump Drew Huge Crowd by Special Train
A site a few hundred feet north of Highway 6 at Gallatin, and just west of Route MM, marks the...
1885: Public Hanging of Joe Jump and John Smith at Gallatin, MO
The hanging of Joe Jump, 19, and John Smith, 22, for the murder of Wm. Gladson on Dec. 29, 1885,...
1881 Rock Island Train Robbery, Murder at Winston, MO
This account is reprinted from the July 21, 1881, edition of the Gallatin North Missourian (with...
Visit the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail, located 2 blocks west of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO. This historic relic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a visitors’ center — by appointment,
Trudi Burton, ph: 660.663.7342
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