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Richard A. Pauley achieved his boyhood wish of becoming a law officer after working as a rancher and being elected Coleman County Sheriff in 1923. Widely respected as a true gentleman, he often did not carry a gun, preferring to convince fugitives that the law would protect rather than hurt them. He was shot by two stowaways while investigating a train car. His wife Kate Dancer Pauley and son Russell survived him.
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