Did Old West lawmen write a police blotter? Or was it more like a journal? Lawrence Ripplinger Grafton, Illinois Like bookkeepers, each city marshal had his own method of keeping records of arrests and mileage. Oftentimes, they were paid by the number of arrests. Also, city officials wanted records kept of expenses such as meals delivered to jailed prisoners. The local news reporters, like today, gathered information from these journals. On the federal level, U.S. marshals had to keep up with a
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