Sheriff’s Past and Present
Deputy Coral A. Hickman
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March 14, 1930
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Deputy Hickman served under Kiowa County Sheriff Walter P. Mayne.
On March 14, 1930, three men robbed the Manter State bank taking approximately $4,000. Deputy Hickman spotted the suspect vehicle and proceeded to follow it. The vehicle turned a corner, sped up, and stopped two miles east of Eads. Deputy Hickman caught up with the suspect vehicle and stopped, the three suspects (Clyde Ray, Andrew Halliday and John Walker) approached his vehicle with rifles and shotguns and opened fire, striking Deputy Hickman six times.
The suspects then fled to Cheyenne County, Colorado, where they shot and wounded the sheriff and a deputy. They then fled back to Kansas where they were apprehended.
Ed Hickman, age 63, a former cow puncher and brother of slain deputy, was the first witness for the State. He told of finding his brother lying face down in the road after the fatal encounter with the three men. Deputy Hickman was still alive when Ed Hickman found him. Ed Hickman testified that Coral Hickman faced the gun when first shot and he had been shot after he fell to the ground.
The scene of the shooting was investigated by Sheriff Walter P. Mayne and Deputy Floyd Anderson of the Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office.
District Judge Samuel D. Trimble presided over the trial of the three men who murdered Deputy Hickman: Clyde Ray, Andrew Halliday and John Walker. The District Attorney, J. Arthur Phelps, demanded the death penalty for all three of the men. District Attorney Phelps requested that the jury send the three men to the gallows. On January 30, 1931, the three men were hung at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado.
(Source: Kiowa County Press.)
Kiowa County Sheriff’s, Past and Present
Sheriff Bryan Williams
2022 to Present
Sheriff Forrest Frazee
2021- 2022
Sheriff Casey Sheridan
2014 – 2021
Sheriff Forrest Frazee
2003 – 2014
Sheriff Gary Rehm
1983 – 2003
Sheriff Floyd Griswould
1979 – 1983
Sheriff Larry Watts
1975 – 1979
Sheriff Gene Kelly
1967 – 1975
Sheriff Ray Wiebers
1963 -1967
Sheriff Gene Kelly
1945 – 1963
Sheriff C.A. Wood

1941-1945
Sheriff Lester Latham

1935-1941
Sheriff Walter P Mayne

1922-1935
Sheriff W.S. McCrackin

1918-1922
Sheriff John Drown

1916-1918
Sheriff J.W. Blair

1912-1916
Sheriff T.W. Clark

1910-1912
Sheriff Wirt Bailey
1908 – 1910
Sheriff J.W. Blair
1906 – 1908
Sheriff Wirt Bailey
1904 – 1906
Sheriff George Asher
1900 – 1904
Sheriff Charles Greuba
1898 – 1900
Sheriff Andrew J. Harker
1894 – 1898
Sheriff James H. Witt
1892 – 1894
First Sheriff of Kiowa County
Sheriff Wallace Harvey
1889 – 1892
Before Kiowa County was established the local Sheriff of the Town of Stewart (Present Day Eastern Kiowa County)
Appointed Sheriff J.J. Kalla. He served as Sheriff for the 1889 Sheriff election only