This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdF.2ACEB/116.121.122.174 Message Board Post: Charles G. Bratton served four days as a special policeman on the Wichita police force probably in February, 1872. for this work he was paid $8.00 on February 21. On December 22,1874, while assisting the city Marshal of Burlingame to take a drunken butcher to jail Bratton was stabbed and killed.