CLIFFORD DRIETZLER

Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 35-W: 12
Department: White Pine County, Nevada, S.O.
End of Watch: November 5, 1941
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Investigating suspicious persons. Deputy Drietzler was told about a suspicous vehicle and driver parked along McGill Highway. Before Dupty Drietzler arrived, the suspect hid away from the vehicle. While Deputy Drietzler investigated the vehicle, the suspect cam up behind him, took his revolver, and shot him in the head after making him walk some distance from the car. The suspect was later arrested driving a stolen car. He was sentenced to life in prison, but received parole in twenty years.
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