Assassination At Kokomo Junction
True Crime Historian
Pulpular Media
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The Gillooly/Lannon Affray
Episode 443 tells the story of the first officer to be killed in the line of duty in Kokomo, Indiana. But was the violent action against him provoked, or spurred on by a notorious local gang? The question divided the growing Indiana town.
Culled from the historic pages of the Kokomo Saturday Tribune, the 1882 History of Howard County, and Jackson Morrow’s 1909 History of Howard County.
We offer a special thanks to the staff at the Howard County Library’s genealogy room and listener Anthony R Jones, no relation, who saw the mobile production unit outside that library, where I was engaged in research on another matter. After I got his message telling me to look into the Mollihan gang, I dug around and came up with this episode.
Residents of the Safe House can take a deeper dive into Kokomo’s criminal past in the case file posted at www.patreon.com/truecrimehistorian.
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| 0:51.2 | Koko Coquamow, Indiana, August 23, 1877. |
| 1:04.1 | There occurred at the junction a few minutes before 7 o'clock last evening. |
| 1:10.2 | One of the most cold-blooded, most heartless murders |
| 1:13.6 | it has ever been our lot to know. While policeman Thomas W. Lannon was sitting on the depot platform |
| 1:21.1 | at the crossing talking to a party of friends, he was approached by Michael Galooly, who without uttering a word of warning, |
| 1:30.3 | leveled a revolver at him and mercilessly shot him down. At the first shot, which entered |
| 1:37.3 | the ill-fated man's mouth, poor Lannin attempted to run into the sitting room of the depot. As he entered the door, |
| 1:46.1 | Galooly fired another, and the fatal shot, which entered poor Lannin's back a little to the right |
| 1:52.2 | and in the region of the heart. He staggered to the lunch counter and said to Mr. Wichel, |
| 1:58.6 | who was in attendance there, run for the priest. |
| 2:02.8 | And from thence out the east door and into the telegraph office, where he fell on the floor |
| 2:08.5 | with his life's blood gushing in torrents from his eyes, mouth, and nostrils. |
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