CHARLES F ARTZ

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Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 30-W: 27
Department: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, P.D.
End of Watch: June 27, 1920
Cause: SHOT
Age: 36
Years of Service:
Description: Special Agent Artz was shot when he arrested four men for vagrancy near the Rock Island railroad tracks in Wichita, KS. As Agent Artz escorted the suspects into custody, three men not associated with the vagrants approached Agent Artz and shot him in the head. Agent Artz died at the scene.
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