First Policeman killed in the line of duty in Pryor Ok.
Near midnight Wednesday, December 16, 1914, City Marshal Coats, 48, had located Jesse Moore at the Mayor Hotel in Pryor Creek. Moore was wanted for failing to return to court to pay his fine for public drunkenness. Marshal Coats’ friend, Austin Whitaker, accompanied him. The men went to the hotel room where Moore was registered and called for him to come out. Moore however was in the room across from his at the time and fired four shots through the door, striking the Marshal three times, once in the heart, killing him. Whitaker took the dead marshal’s gun and arrested Moore. Moore was convicted and died later in prison. Marshal Coats left behind his wife Susie and eight children. He is memorialized at Panel: 47-W: 7 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC and on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial.
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Near midnight Wednesday, December 16, 1914, City Marshal Coats, 48, had located Jesse Moore at the Mayor Hotel in Pryor Creek. Moore was wanted for failing to return to court to pay his fine for public drunkenness. Marshal Coats’ friend, Austin Whitaker, accompanied him. The men went to the hotel room where Moore was registered and called for him to come out. Moore however was in the room across from his at the time and fired four shots through the door, striking the Marshal three times, once in the heart, killing him. Whitaker took the dead marshal’s gun and arrested Moore. Moore was convicted and died later in prison. Marshal Coats left behind his wife Susie and eight children. He is memorialized at Panel: 47-W: 7 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC and on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial.
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First Policeman killed in the line of duty in Pryor Ok.
Near midnight Wednesday, December 16, 1914, City Marshal Coats, 48, had located Jesse Moore at the Mayor Hotel in Pryor Creek. Moore was wanted for failing to return to court to pay his fine for public drunkenness. Marshal Coats’ friend, Austin Whitaker, accompanied him. The men went to the hotel room where Moore was registered and called for him to come out. Moore however was in the room across from his at the time and fired four shots through the door, striking the Marshal three times, once in the heart, killing him. Whitaker took the dead marshal’s gun and arrested Moore. Moore was convicted and died later in prison. Marshal Coats left behind his wife Susie and eight children. He is memorialized at Panel: 47-W: 7 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC and on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial.
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Near midnight Wednesday, December 16, 1914, City Marshal Coats, 48, had located Jesse Moore at the Mayor Hotel in Pryor Creek. Moore was wanted for failing to return to court to pay his fine for public drunkenness. Marshal Coats’ friend, Austin Whitaker, accompanied him. The men went to the hotel room where Moore was registered and called for him to come out. Moore however was in the room across from his at the time and fired four shots through the door, striking the Marshal three times, once in the heart, killing him. Whitaker took the dead marshal’s gun and arrested Moore. Moore was convicted and died later in prison. Marshal Coats left behind his wife Susie and eight children. He is memorialized at Panel: 47-W: 7 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC and on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial.
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