LEANDER BROWN
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Officer Rank: Private
Memorial Panel: 11-E: 24
Department: Bureau of Indian Affairs
End of Watch: August 7, 1882
Cause: NIFE
Age: 34
Years of Service: 7
Description: Private Brown was killed after he arrested a suspect for cutting hay without a permit in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Because it was evening, Private Brown and the prisoner set up camp to sleep a few hours before continuing on with the six hour ride to the jail. In the early morning hours, the prisoner slipped out of his shackles, found a pickax and stabbed Private Brown to death.
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