MICHAEL LEONARD
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Officer Rank: Captain
Memorial Panel: 15-W: 22
Department: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, P.D.
End of Watch: June 1, 1898
Cause: TRAIN
Age: 55
Years of Service: 17
Description: Captain Leonard was in charge of detail at the local train depot. A crowd of more than five thousand citizens had gathered to welcome home soldiers from the Spanish-American War. When the train did not slow down, the officers attempted to clear the tracks. Captain Leonard was struck and killed by the train as he helped a mother and child to safety. The train was a freight train, not the soldiers' train.
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