JAMES H DONOVAN
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Officer Rank: Prison Guard
Memorial Panel: 16-E: 20
Department: NYS Department of Correctional Services
End of Watch: March 21, 1940
Cause: BEAT
Age: 44
Years of Service: 12
Description: Prison Guard Donovan, of the Auburn State Prison, was beaten across the head with an eight pound iron crank handle by a prisoner who had been discharged from his duties in the prison bake shop.
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