Frontier Peace Officer. While serving as a Canadian County Deputy Sheriff in Oklahoma Territory, Farris recognized two outlaw brothers named James and Victor Casey in Yukon, Oklahoma on May 21, 1894. The Caseys were suspected of murdering two men near El Reno earlier in the month and when Farris confronted them, the brothers shot Deputy Farris. Although fatally wounded, Farris returned fire, wounding Vic Casey in the foot. Vic Casey would later develop blood poisoning from the wound and die on November 12, 1894. His brother Jim was later arrested and placed in jail in Oklahoma City. On June 30, 1895, when he tried to escape the jail with the Christian brothers, he was killed, but not before shooting Oklahoma City Chief of Police Milton Jones. Deputy Sheriff Farris is memorialized at Panel: 14-E: 28 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC.
Frontier Peace Officer. While serving as a Canadian County Deputy Sheriff in Oklahoma Territory, Farris recognized two outlaw brothers named James and Victor Casey in Yukon, Oklahoma on May 21, 1894. The Caseys were suspected of murdering two men near El Reno earlier in the month and when Farris confronted them, the brothers shot Deputy Farris. Although fatally wounded, Farris returned fire, wounding Vic Casey in the foot. Vic Casey would later develop blood poisoning from the wound and die on November 12, 1894. His brother Jim was later arrested and placed in jail in Oklahoma City. On June 30, 1895, when he tried to escape the jail with the Christian brothers, he was killed, but not before shooting Oklahoma City Chief of Police Milton Jones. Deputy Sheriff Farris is memorialized at Panel: 14-E: 28 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC.
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Most newspaper accounts at the time spelled his name Farris, but his mother Sara, who is also buried in the Yukon Cemetery, has her name as Faris on her headstone. I've retained his as Farris since that's the spelling on the NLEOM.
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