City Marshall James Ryan and Night Marshall James Basham were both fatally shot and killed in a 1908 shootout at the old Estes Hotel in Warrensburg Missouri(which used to be located to the southern cattycorner of City Hall). Byron Hall, declared insane by the testimony of witnesses and family members, was apparently under the belief that attackers were pursuing him for $500 he had earned herding sheep. Before Hall committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart, he shot Ryan 3 times, and shot Basham with a steel bullet that passed entirely through the Night Marshall’s body. Basham and Ryan are both buried side by side with identical markers, about 100 feet North of the Confederate Memorial, tallest in the cemetery.
City Marshall James Ryan and Night Marshall James Basham were both fatally shot and killed in a 1908 shootout at the old Estes Hotel in Warrensburg Missouri(which used to be located to the southern cattycorner of City Hall). Byron Hall, declared insane by the testimony of witnesses and family members, was apparently under the belief that attackers were pursuing him for $500 he had earned herding sheep. Before Hall committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart, he shot Ryan 3 times, and shot Basham with a steel bullet that passed entirely through the Night Marshall’s body. Basham and Ryan are both buried side by side with identical markers, about 100 feet North of the Confederate Memorial, tallest in the cemetery.
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