JAMES WASHINGTON KIRWIN
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Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 25-E: 26
Department: Crisfield, Maryland, P.D.
End of Watch: April 18, 1930
Cause: NIFE
Age: 66
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Chief Kirwin was attacked and struck in the head with an axe as he attempted to arrest a suspect. Chief Kirwin and Officer John Sterling went to a barn to arrest the suspect after being notified that he had attacked a man with an axe. When the officers entered the barn they were attacked by the man wielding an axe. Officer Sterling fatally shot the suspect. Chief Kirwin suffered a fractured skull and was rendered an invalid until his death six years later.
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