1913: Murder of Passion at Dockery Park in Gallatin, MO
A week after the killing of a Mexican at the Rock Island depot at Gallatin, another murder occurred in 1913 at Gallatin, MO, when the companion of 16-year-old Blanche Brodbeck, Edward Donaldson, was killed from an ambush attack. Bloodhounds, brought here from...
Gallatin Democrat’s Account of the 1869 James Gang Robbery
This account written in 1913 summarizes the robbery of the Daviess County Savings Association and murder of Capt. John Sheets upon the 44th anniversary of the incident. The following is reprinted from the files of the Gallatin Democrat: Forty-four years ago, December...
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 between owners and workers in Colorado during the first decade of this century, no gunfighter was more feared than Jim Warford, alias Jim Lambert. Jim Lambert became well...
1910: A Suicide Occurs in the Daviess County Courthouse
Suicide, though technically a crime, is more readily described as personal tragedy. In 1910 citizens throughout Daviess County were shocked to learn of the suicide of “Squire” J.G. McVeigh, found dead in his office inside the Daviess County courthouse in...
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 started (previously of Macon, Mo.), was shot down in his drug store by Don Woodworth. Both men, known to be hot-tempered, apparently were in dispute over ownership of...
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 notes. Thomas J. Harris (white) and Ace Page (colored) are each bemoaning the fate which made them susceptible to the wily ways and glib tongued entreaties of the...
1899: Infanticide Victim Discovered at Pattonsburg, MO
The sad and wicked deed of a depraved mother from Maryville is discovered at Pattonsburg, MO, in 1899. Anna McKee of Maryville, MO, traveled through Pattonsburg on the westbound Q.O. & K.C. Railroad, taking lodging at the Farmers’ Hotel. About dark she went...
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 harmless old man was foully murdered, shot down like a dog and left to die alone and unattended. After more than a century, this murder remains unsolved. John Gagan, an...
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 spot where two murderers died in 1886, in what were to be among the last public hangings in Missouri. Joe Jump and John Smith were found guilty of the murder of William C....
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,
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