JAMES W DEVENS
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Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 19-W: 25
Department: New York City, New York, P.D.
End of Watch: November 25, 1904
Cause: FALL
Age: 34
Years of Service: 8
Description: Patrolman Devens and three other officers, riding the department's horse-drawn wagon, were responding to assist at a local fire. As the officers rode, a trolley car and another wagon suddenly stopped in front of the patrol wagon. As Patrolman Devens tried to avoid hitting the vehicles and pedestrians, his wagon overturned. Patrolman Devens received a severe fracture at the base of his skull, two broken legs and internal injuries. He succumbed to his injuries shortly after arrival at the hospital.
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