WILLIAM MEADE
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Officer Rank: Prohibition Officer
Memorial Panel: 44-E: 27
Department: West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control
End of Watch: February 12, 1922
Cause: SHOT
Age: 48
Years of Service: 2
Description: Prohibition Officer Meade was ambushed and shot in the back while at the train station. Officer Meade had confiscated three illegal stills in a raid and was on his way back to headquarters when he was shot on the train platform. Officer Meade died at the scene. A suspect was arrested.
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