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Officer Glenn Allison

Died on Feb. 7, 1918, while taking two prisoners to jail from the Cosden Refinery. 

The prisoner in the back seat, Woody Russell, struck Officer Allison over the head with a tire pump.  The other prisoner walked back to the Cosden Refinery and notified other officers.  Russell boarded an eastbound freight train but was arrested eleven days later in Joplin, Missouri. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.