WILLIAM A DILLON
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 59-W: 5
Department: Metropolitan P.D., City of St. Louis, Missouri
End of Watch: April 7, 1916
Cause: NIFE
Age: 40
Years of Service: 13
Description: Attempting an arrest. Killed with a hatchet and shovel by two members of the Lewis gang who had murdered another officer, John McKenna. Officer Dillon was investigating the murder of Officer McKenna when he was killed.
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