WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) -- On this day in 1871, the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office lost its first deputy in the line of duty.

Deputy Carlos B. King was shot outside of an infamous saloon in Newton on Sept. 23, 1871. Deputy King had traveled to Newton because at the time, Sedgwick County handled judicial and administrative affairs in what is now present-day Harvey County.

King was a Civil War Veteran from Michigan, whose grandfather was a colonel in the U.S. Army, and whose great-grandfather fought in the American Revolution. King had traveled to Newton to enforce the city's new gun ordinance, which outlawed the open carrying of firearms.

It came on the heels of a bloody summer in Newton, which quickly gained the town the nickname of "Bloody Newton." It culminated in a shootout in the tow

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