JOHN HOLCOMB
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Officer Rank: Correctional Officer
Memorial Panel: 59-E: 21
Department: North Dakota State Penitentiary
End of Watch: August 7, 1954
Cause: TRAIN
Age: 64
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Officer Holcomb and four other guards were watching a work detail. One prisoner jumped into a railcar that was being rolled out of the yard in an attempt to escape. Officer Holcomb followed and jumped after him, but was crushed between the wall gateway and railcar.
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