Chief Leroy Cotman Waller
This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”
Waller was Chief of Police in Spokane from August 1904 to May 1907.
This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”
“Will Be Run Out of the City”
Beginning early in the year of 1905, Chief of Police Leroy Cotman Waller unleashed a campaign against all “vagrants” designed to round up as many perceived undesirables as possible and place them in the city jail. As the war on crime progressed into…