Chief Leroy Cotman Waller

ID: 5872 ~ Source: "Needn't Pay Chapman for Going to Jail: Judge doesnt Blame the City or Ex-Chief Waller for It." Spokane Chronicle, June 23, 1908. ~ Creator: Photograph courtesy of Spokane Chronicle
This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”
Chief Leroy Cotman Waller

Waller was Chief of Police in Spokane from August 1904 to May 1907.

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”

By Julianna Amante
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…