JOHN J LENHART
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Officer Rank: Deputy Constable
Memorial Panel: 53-E: 25
Department: Somerset County, Pennsylvania, C.O.
End of Watch: September 18, 1898
Cause: SHOT
Age: 28
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Constable Lenhart was shot and killed by a man who was resisting eviction from a house which was the subject of a family dispute. The suspect then barricaded himself inside the house but was arrested by the Sheriff. As the Sheriff was escorting the suspect to jail, someone in the crowd shot the suspect in the head, killing him.
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