HICKMAN BRUNER

Officer Rank: Deputy Marshal
Memorial Panel: 3-E: 11
Department: U.S. Marshals Service
End of Watch: June 22, 1898
Cause: DROW
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Bruner, of Pryor Creek, Oklahoma, had 13 arrest warrants from the Muskogee federal court to serve east of the Grand River. He was in a hurry to serve the warrants while the court was still in session. When he arrived at the West?s Ferry Crossing near Spavinaw he found that the ferry was on the other side and the ferryman was gone. Deputy Bruner took his clothes off and attempted to swim across the rain swollen river but drowned before reaching the other side.
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