CHARLES G COLEMAN
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 20-W: 20
Department: Pepin County, Wisconsin, S.D.
End of Watch: July 10, 1881
Cause: SHOT
Age: 40
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Coleman and his brother, Undersheriff Milton Coleman were shot and killed while looking for a pair of robbery suspects. The suspects fled. Two months later, the suspects shot and killed Sheriff John Lammy when he attempted to arrest them for murder. The suspects escaped again but later that year in November one of the suspects was captured and lynched. The other suspect was found dead in a ravine after escaping during a prison transfer.
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