MARSHAL GEORGE GREER - END OF WATCH: 3/27/1904, AT THE HANDS OF DRUNKARD JIM JONES
CHIEF MOY BENNETT - 1940
CHIEF JACK GEORGE - 2005
July 1883: The town elects a mayor, four city councilmen. Citizens have decided to reorganize the incorporation and 'have a marshal'. Thus establishing the Bloomfield Police Department.
MAY, 1897: A CURFEW BELL WAS PUT UP IN THE COURTHOUSE YARD AND WILL BE RUNG EVERY NIGHT AT NINE P.M., A REMINDER THAT ALL IDLERS UNDER TWENTY-ONE MUST VACATE THE STREETS.
MARCH 27, 1904: CITY MARSHAL GEORGE GREER WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY BY A DRUNK, JIM JONES. JONES WAS SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS.
MARCH 1928: A COUNTY POSSE CHASED QULIN BANK ROBBERS WITH LOTS OF ACTION NORTH OF THE COURTHOUSE ON PRAIRIE ST. KIP BRINEY, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, WAS COMING DOWN THE MAIN STREET IN A PONTIAC AT HIGH SPEED WITH CITY MARSHAL CURT PICKINS AND JOHN MCALLISTER IN THE CAR. SHOTS WERE EXCHANGED AND THE BANDITS MADE A HASTY ESCAPE. THEIR VEHICLE WAS LATER FOUND IN BELL CITY.
NOVEMBER 1944: MRS. RUBY ALEXANDER BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN SHERIFF OF STODDARD COUNTY. SHE WAS APPOINTED BY THE STODDARD COUNTY COURT.
MARCH 29, 1946: DEPUTY CITY MARSHAL, JESSE JENNINGS, 50, IS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE FATAL SHOOTING OF ALVIN ELLSWORTH.
1973: THE CITY DODGE POLARIS FROM SCISM MOTOR FOR USE AS A POLICE CAR. A TWO-WAY RADIO IS INSTALLED BY JIM HALL.
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BLOOMFIELD MISSOURI: HIGHLAND IN THE SWAMPS
By: Robert H. Forister