WILLIAM H ENGEL
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 25-W: 22
Department: Vanderburgh County, Indiana, S.D.
End of Watch: August 14, 1919
Cause: SHOT
Age: 44
Years of Service: 1
Description: Deputy Engel was assisting with the transporting of prisoners to the Indiana State Reformatory. While transporting prisoner John Cole, convicted for murder, Deputy Cole was shot in the back of the head. The prisoner had received a gun from his girlfriend at the train station where the prisoners were loaded.
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