Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Police Department
Railroad Police
End of Watch: Thursday, February 22, 1912
Cause: Gunfire
Biographical Info
Age: 40
Tour of Duty: 1 year
Badge Number: Not available Detective Joseph Kroskey was shot and killed in Guthrie, Oklahoma, while assisting city police officers search a train for two armed robbers.
As the city officers arrested one of the suspects Detective Kroskey engaged the second suspect in a running gun battle. He was struck in the neck by one of the shots and killed.
Detective Kroskey had served with the agency for one year. | 
