GEORGE MCKELVEY
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Officer Rank: Principle Keeper
Memorial Panel: 31-W: 24
Department: NYS Department of Correctional Services
End of Watch: May 6, 1880
Cause: NIFE
Age: 35
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Principle Keeper McKelvey, of the Elmira Reformatory, was fatally stabbed in the heart with a knife as he entered a cell to handcuff an inmate for a disciplinary infraction. The inmate was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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