walker, roscoe
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- Roscoe Walker; Walker, Roscoe
- Record count
- 9
- Sources
- county_officials,court_cases,life_events,v2_names
- Places seen
- Bloomfield; Poplar Bluff
- First event date
- 11-Sep-22
- Last event date
- 1930-10-24
Timeline — 19 events
- 1921-02-04 Bloomfield. Sheriff Roscoe Walker, with Marshal Allen and others, arrested army deserter Walter Lasuias at the Liberty church after a tip that he had been at church Saturday night Co-mentioned: Walter Lasuias. Quote: "Marshal Allen, accompanied by several others, went out to the Liberty church."
- 1921-02-18 Dexter. Sheriff Roscoe Walker drove up to Dowdy corner with a captured still and several cases of bottled beer Monday; with Deputy Sheriff Tom Jenkins, Marshal J. R. Allen of Bloomfield and Mayor Cicero Crowe he raided a house in a field owned by Charlie Lavan about two miles southwest of Dexter; Ch…
- 1921-09-23 Elk township. Sheriff Roscoe Walker led a Tuesday-afternoon raid with deputies Tom Jenkins, Constable Henry Huff, Ransom Scism and C. A. Crane that captured two about-60-gallon stills on Little River ditch in Elk township, about 5 miles northeast of Parma; about 1200 gallons of mash was destroyed; W…
- 1921-10-28 Dexter. Sheriff Roscoe Walker and T. Ben Wilson, Jr. were Dexter visitors Thursday morning Co-mentioned: T. Ben Wilson Jr.. Quote: "Sheriff Roscoe Walker and T. Ben Wilson, Jr., were Dexter visitors Thursday morning."
- 1922-04-28 Swinton. Sheriff Roscoe Walker's flying squadron - Deputy Sheriff Jenkins, Judge Cicero Crane and Constable Henry Huff - seized a large still near Swinton, north of Bloomfield, said to be the aristocrat of all county stills Co-mentioned: Henry Huff. Quote: "THE ARISTOCRAT OF ALL COUNTY STILLS IS TAK…
- 1924-04-11 Listed as county sheriff Quote: "Sheriff—Roscoe Walker."
- 1924-04-11 Sheriff Roscoe Walker, with chief deputy Tom Jenkins and constable R. H. McDougal, raided and captured a large still with four men on Thursday night, April 3; whiskey and a thousand to twelve hundred gallons of mash were burned and the manufacturers taken to Bloomfield and jailed Co-mentioned: Tom J…
- 1924-06-20 Bloomfield. Sheriff Roscoe Walker led the Monday raid on John Stanley's still on the St. Francis river and the Wednesday raid on Charlie Gregory's still on the Scott county line Quote: "Sheriff Roscoe Walker with a posse"
- 1924-06-27 Stoddard County. Sheriff Roscoe Walker and Mr. Redman of the State Automobile License Department are making a tour of Stoddard county this week, checking upon all gravel truck and automobile owners operating their cars without their 1924 license Quote: "sheriff Roscoe Walker"
- 1924-07-11 Detroit, Mich.. Sheriff Roscoe Walker and two special deputies, C. O. Biggs, Jr. and Clyde Welborn, left Tuesday night for Detroit to bring Sherman Tippett back to serve his liquor-law jail sentence Co-mentioned: Sherman Tippett; C. O. Biggs, Jr.; Clyde Welborn. Quote: ""Sheriff Roscoe Walker and tw…
- 1924-07-18 Bloomfield. Roscoe Walker, Sheriff and Acting Trustee of Stoddard County, will carry out the Rice deed of trust and sell the land at public auction on Monday, August 11, 1924, at the South Front Door of the court house, Bloomfield; Charles Liles, Attorney Co-mentioned: Everett Rice; Lamora Rice; Cha…
- 1924-08-01 Bloomfield. Roscoe Walker, Sheriff of Stoddard County and acting trustee, will sell the Rice land at public auction August 11, 1924, at the Bloomfield court house Quote: "ROSCOE WALKER, Sheriff and Acting Trustee."
- 1924-08-08 Bloomfield. Roscoe Walker, Sheriff of Stoddard County and acting trustee, will sell the Everett and Lamora Rice 40-acre tract at public auction Monday, August 11, 1924, at the south front door of the courthouse in Bloomfield Co-mentioned: Everett Rice.
- 1924-08-15 Bloomfield. Sheriff Roscoe Walker of Stoddard County reported that prisoner William Metcalf sawed off his handcuffs and escaped from his custody 55 miles north of Poplar Bluff while being taken to the State penitentiary; Walker, County Treasurer Herman Lufey and a guard were in the car Quote: "Walke…
- 1929-03-29 Poplar Bluff. Roscoe Walker of Poplar Bluff showed his card as republican candidate for chief of police of P. B Quote: "He showed us his card as republican candidate for chief of police of P. B."
- 1929-04-05 Poplar Bluff. Roscoe Walker, ex-sheriff of this county, was elected Chief of Police of Poplar Bluff Tuesday Quote: "Roscoe Walker, ex-sheriff of this county, was elected Chief of Police of Poplar Bluff Tuesday."
- 1930-01-10 Bloomfield. Chief of Police Roscoe Walker, another son of B. W. Walker, will leave for Bloomfield tonight Quote: "BLOOMFIELD MAN ILL"
- 1930-10-17 Poplar Bluff. Chief of Police Roscoe Walker of Poplar Bluff, formerly Sheriff of Stoddard County, and Patrolman Charles Rose were arrested last night by Sheriff Ray McCown and deputies on charges of accepting bribes from an alleged bootlegger; formal charges were filed Oct. 10 by Prosecuting Attorne…
- 1930-10-24 Poplar Bluff. The special grand jury returned two true bills, finding indictments against Chief of Police Roscoe Walker and Patrolman Charles Rose, who were arrested several days ago by Sheriff Ray McCown on charges of accepting bribes from a bootlegger in exchange for protection; each gave $1,000 b…
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