FRANKLIN PIERCE CULP

Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 51-W: 16
Department: Fostoria, Ohio, P.D.
End of Watch: April 23, 1950
Cause: SHOT
Age: 84
Years of Service: 34
Description: Chief Culp was shot in the chest during a bank robbery by the Dillinger Gang. Chief Culp died 16 years later from complications of the gunshot wound sustained in the incident. John Dillinger and his gang murdered eight officers during the 1930's: Officer Howard Wagner, Trooper Eugene Teague, Sheriff Jesse Sarber, Patrolman William O'Malley, Patrolman Martin O'Brien, Officer Francis Mulvihill, Detective Henry Perrow and Undersheriff Charles Cavanagh. John Dillinger was killed in a shootout with FBI Agents on July 22, 1934.
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