JOHN P CATES
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Officer Rank: Special Officer
Memorial Panel: 58-W: 28
Department: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, P.D.
End of Watch: June 7, 1911
Cause: SHOT
Age: 46
Years of Service: 3
Description: Special Officer Cates was shot and killed while attempting to arrest three armed suspects in the train yard at Wellington, Kansas. The suspects were in the process of stealing merchandise from a train when Officer Cates intervened. Officer Cates was shot twice and died at the scene.
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