Michael F. Churchill.
Chief of Police Mike Churchill was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man for beating his wife the previous night. As Chief Churchill approached the man in a shed behind his house, the man opened fire with a shotgun, killing Chief Churchill around 10:00 a.m. The man was apprehended by a posse, convicted, and hung on May 6th, 1950. Chief Churchill was a United States Army WWI veteran. He had served with the Osawatomie Police Department for ten years and law enforcement for an additional seven years.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Chief of Police Churchill gave the Osawatomie Police Department 17 years.
Thank you for your service to the Osawatomie community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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