In June 1909, the Grapevine Town Council voted unanimously to build the community's first calaboose, or town jail, after previously relying on the Tarrant County Sheriff for official law enforcement. The council authorized Town Marshall W. T. Bigbee to construct the 8 foot by 10 by 8 foot concrete jail on land one block west of this site, near the present water tower, and also gave him $4.50 to buy a pair of handcuffs. In 1911, the Marshall was offered a $25 a month salary, perhaps in recognition of his quick response to a February robbery at the J.T. Yancry and Son store on Main Street, where seven watches belonging to jeweler Mr. Houk were stolen, though the perpetrators were soon caught as they fled toward Dallas on bicycles. James S. Daniel was elected Marshall in 1924 and served until 1941, during a vivid period in Grapevine law enforcement that included the 1931 armed robbery of the Grapevine Home Bank by Joe Stewart and Odell Chambless, Chambless's escape and ride to West Dallas, and his later recognition by cashier H. C. Yancey in a Fort Worth barber shop. In 1934, tragedy struck when Texas motorcycle patrolmen E. B. Wheeler and H. D. Murphy were shot and killed on Easter Sunday by Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker on old Highway 114 just west of Grapevine in present Southlake, and their bodies were brought to the Lucas Funeral Home on Main Street, where nearly the entire town came to honor them. By 1953, when the city bought its first patrol car and required Marshall A. B. Allen and the night watchman to wear uniforms, the calaboose was little used and had fallen into ruin, and after later moves in 1976 and 1994 it remained important to Grapevine's early law enforcement history.