JAMES L METZ
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 23-E: 31
Department: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, P.D.
End of Watch: September 10, 1887
Cause: PHYS
Age: 53
Years of Service: 14
Description: Police Officer Metz collapsed and died of a heart attack after taking a suspect into custody and placing him in a cell. Officer Metz was standing in the hearing room at the station when he collapsed and died due to apoplexy.
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