OFFICER:  JOSIAH "JOE" HAZEN

DEPARTMENT:  Converse County Sheriff's Office

DATE OF INCIDENT:  June 1, 1899 

DETAILS:  Sheriff Hazen was shot and killed west of Casper by train robbers.  The suspects were George "Flatnose" Curry and the Robert boys who were members of the "Wild Bunch".  Later in 1899, the Robert boys were arrested in Montana.  Approximately one year after Sheriff Hazen was killed, "Flatnose" Curry was killed in a shootout in Utah after an attempted train robbery.