THE DEATH OF OFFICER EDMUND P. KELEHER ON JANUARY 10, 1922. WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE DATED JANUARY 10, 1922, PAGE 2 AUTO ENDS CAREER OF POLICE VETERAN Edmund P. Keleher Dies on Way to Hospital, Following Accident. MEMBER OF FORCE 30 YEARS Was on His Way Home When...
ON OCTOBER 17, 1921, OFFICER GEORGE D. CHINN WAS SHOT IN THE ABDOMEN, AND THEN SEVERELY BEATEN AS HE LAY HELPLESS ON THE GROUND. HE DIED THREE DAYS LATER. WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE DATED OCTOBER 17, 1921, PAGE 1 OFFICER SHOT, DYING Policeman Chinn Hit in Battle With...
THE SHOOTING DEATH OF OFFICER SAMUEL C. HAYDEN ON FEBRUARY 27, 1921. WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE DATED FEBRUARY 28, 1921, PAGE 1 2 DEAD IN GUN FIGHT Policeman Hayden Slain Trying to Capture Madman CRAZED SHOOTING INJURES 2 T.L. Harriss, Killed, Recently Patient at St....
The below listed details were gathered by Retired MPD Detective Sergeant Dave Richardson and is part of an entire series of stories we have been republishing here. Dave has done some great work over the years, which you will see as his parenthetical notes...
THE 1920 SHOOTING DEATH OF OFFICER OSCAR A. MCKIMMIE. WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE DATED JANUARY 18, 1920, PAGE 1 SLAIN BY A BURGLAR Policeman McKimmie is Fifth of Force to Die in 20 Months SHOT ANSWERING SCREAMS One of Three Bullets Strikes Him Over Heart and He Crumples...
WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE DATED DECEMBER 15, 1919, PAGE 1 SLAYS AUTO DEALER; WOUNDS DETECTIVE McHenry, 19 Years, of St. Louis, Hungry, He Tells Police Wallace W. Mulcare, of the Olympia apartments, and proprietor of an automobile accessory store, 1322 Fourteenth street...
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