Served in Co K 3rd Iowa Cavalry-
US Officer Down Memorial (Ray County Sheriffs Dept):
Jailer Barry G Griffin, and his son, Deputy Frank Griffin, were shot and killed by a group of men who rode into Richmond to rob a bank. The suspects were brothers known as the Younger Gang who shot and killed Deputy Edwin Daniels, of the St. Clair County, Missouri, Sheriff's Department, on March 17, 1874. The Younger Gang was also connected to the death of Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Officer Frank West in 1886 by the husband of Bell Starr, an accomplice of the Younger Gang.
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May 22nd 1867 at 3:30pm 12 men rode into Richmond, MO, 4 entered the Hughes & Wasson Bank & escaped with about $4,000. 3 innocent people were killed including Mayor John B. Shaw (shot in the chest). Warrants were issued for the arrest of 8 former Confed. guerillas: Payne Jones, Dick Burns, Andy McGuire, Tom Little, Ike Flannery, Allen Parmer & John & Jim White. Parmer, later the James brothers' brother-in-law, was able to produce an alibi. 3 other suspects were lynched before they were be tried. It was later found Flannery was killed prior to the crime. The other 2 victims were B. G. Griffin, the local jailer, shot in the head as he was coming to the aid of his dying son, Frank S. Griffin who had been shot in the forehead.
US Officer Down Memorial (Ray County Sheriffs Dept):
Jailer Barry G Griffin, and his son, Deputy Frank Griffin, were shot and killed by a group of men who rode into Richmond to rob a bank. The suspects were brothers known as the Younger Gang who shot and killed Deputy Edwin Daniels, of the St. Clair County, Missouri, Sheriff's Department, on March 17, 1874. The Younger Gang was also connected to the death of Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Officer Frank West in 1886 by the husband of Bell Starr, an accomplice of the Younger Gang.
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May 22nd 1867 at 3:30pm 12 men rode into Richmond, MO, 4 entered the Hughes & Wasson Bank & escaped with about $4,000. 3 innocent people were killed including Mayor John B. Shaw (shot in the chest). Warrants were issued for the arrest of 8 former Confed. guerillas: Payne Jones, Dick Burns, Andy McGuire, Tom Little, Ike Flannery, Allen Parmer & John & Jim White. Parmer, later the James brothers' brother-in-law, was able to produce an alibi. 3 other suspects were lynched before they were be tried. It was later found Flannery was killed prior to the crime. The other 2 victims were B. G. Griffin, the local jailer, shot in the head as he was coming to the aid of his dying son, Frank S. Griffin who had been shot in the forehead.
Served in Co K 3rd Iowa Cavalry-
US Officer Down Memorial (Ray County Sheriffs Dept):
Jailer Barry G Griffin, and his son, Deputy Frank Griffin, were shot and killed by a group of men who rode into Richmond to rob a bank. The suspects were brothers known as the Younger Gang who shot and killed Deputy Edwin Daniels, of the St. Clair County, Missouri, Sheriff's Department, on March 17, 1874. The Younger Gang was also connected to the death of Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Officer Frank West in 1886 by the husband of Bell Starr, an accomplice of the Younger Gang.
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May 22nd 1867 at 3:30pm 12 men rode into Richmond, MO, 4 entered the Hughes & Wasson Bank & escaped with about $4,000. 3 innocent people were killed including Mayor John B. Shaw (shot in the chest). Warrants were issued for the arrest of 8 former Confed. guerillas: Payne Jones, Dick Burns, Andy McGuire, Tom Little, Ike Flannery, Allen Parmer & John & Jim White. Parmer, later the James brothers' brother-in-law, was able to produce an alibi. 3 other suspects were lynched before they were be tried. It was later found Flannery was killed prior to the crime. The other 2 victims were B. G. Griffin, the local jailer, shot in the head as he was coming to the aid of his dying son, Frank S. Griffin who had been shot in the forehead.
US Officer Down Memorial (Ray County Sheriffs Dept):
Jailer Barry G Griffin, and his son, Deputy Frank Griffin, were shot and killed by a group of men who rode into Richmond to rob a bank. The suspects were brothers known as the Younger Gang who shot and killed Deputy Edwin Daniels, of the St. Clair County, Missouri, Sheriff's Department, on March 17, 1874. The Younger Gang was also connected to the death of Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Officer Frank West in 1886 by the husband of Bell Starr, an accomplice of the Younger Gang.
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May 22nd 1867 at 3:30pm 12 men rode into Richmond, MO, 4 entered the Hughes & Wasson Bank & escaped with about $4,000. 3 innocent people were killed including Mayor John B. Shaw (shot in the chest). Warrants were issued for the arrest of 8 former Confed. guerillas: Payne Jones, Dick Burns, Andy McGuire, Tom Little, Ike Flannery, Allen Parmer & John & Jim White. Parmer, later the James brothers' brother-in-law, was able to produce an alibi. 3 other suspects were lynched before they were be tried. It was later found Flannery was killed prior to the crime. The other 2 victims were B. G. Griffin, the local jailer, shot in the head as he was coming to the aid of his dying son, Frank S. Griffin who had been shot in the forehead.
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