| Accession# |
VE1-2010 |
| Catalog date |
01/07/2010 |
| Collection |
OSHP Collections |
| Date of photo |
varies |
| Description |
Retired Sergeant Garnet E. "Tiny" Moore joined the Patrol in 1946 and saw many changes in the Division's responsibilities over the years. He also saw law enforcement deal with many uprisings, beginning with the 1952 Ohio Penitentiary Riot and the late 1960s and early 1970s, with campus protests and another Ohio Pen riot in 1969. In a 2004 interview, Sgt. Moore recalled his times with the Division in its earlier years:
Interviewer: "You never had back-up? How did you do things alone all the time? How did you get things done?"
Moore: "It wasn't easy but we had a lot of dedication. When you join an organization in tough times, when the money wasn't good but it was secure, we just had a close-knit group, you know, and there was a lot of camaraderie between us. Maybe we only had five or six men on a post covering three to four counties and we were on call 24 hours a day - when you went off duty, even. Sometimes I wouldn't get out of uniform.
"We learned to cope with it because we knew it was something we had to do and we wanted to do and we wanted to help the citizenry, the people. So many a night when we had real enduring inclement weather, winter storms and all, we all set on posts there instead of going home and took turns on calls because you knew you were going to get them.
"We didn't think anything about it - we sat, slept in the barracks, and took calls during the night and went in and turned the radio on and went on the air with the District and stayed on the air until you could get a wrecker out there and get everything taken care of. Then you would get up in the morning and clean the barracks, so that became commonplace - we didn't think anything of it. Our wives didn't see much of us.
"It was very difficult to raise a family in the Patrol. I was gone all the time. I was one of the few that never moved with my family. When I started at Findlay, I sometimes had to hitchhike my way home. Then I went to Lima and from there to Perrysburg, which is up in Wood County, and then to Marion as the first trooper that was ever assigned to his hometown. The general staff didn't think much of that idea. They were opposed to it, because they didn't feel we could do our job indiscriminately and without prejudice or favoritism and I proved them wrong.
"It was very difficult for my wife because she had all of those children and she had a rough time looking after things on the poor pay schedule we had at that time. But she did it and she did a wonderful job, so when I got home on the weekend, sometimes, she would bring me up to date on all the family matters and I would tell her some of my problems I had, so we got along pretty good that way.
On the subject of losing a fellow patrolman and friend in the line of duty:
"The one that stands out in my mind was Patrolman Karsmizki. When I was at Post 87 in Wood County - Perrysburg - just this side of Toledo, he was the Trooper and came out a couple of schools after me. He lived in that area and he'd invite me to his home for dinner once in a while, so I liked that. His wife was a lovely lady. She was a graduate and I didn't know for a few years that 'Kars' was a B-29 pilot during the war (WWII). He was killed in a shoot-out with a man by the name of Draper from Marion who came out of an alley and ran down his in-laws. He said they were trying to break him up with his wife, and he killed one of the family, I think the mother, and then fled the area.
He was on State Route 30 up in Crawford County, pursuing this car, and the car got into an accident right at the edge of Crestline and it flipped, rolled over a couple of times, and threw him out and he was laying face down. Of course, Kars, with the training he'd had, he knew he had to be very cautious, that the guy might be playing possum. So he had a Auxiliary officer get the .351 rifle out of the scabbard and back him up. So when Kars went up there with his gun drawn, he very carefully rolled this Draper over and Draper shot Kars right in the heart."
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| Year Range from |
1933 |
| Category |
8: Communication Artifact |
| Year range to |
2010 |
| Object ID |
VE1-2010-011 |
| Object Name |
print, photographic |
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