PATRICK OWENS
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Officer Rank: Detective
Memorial Panel: 6-W: 26
Department: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, P.D.
End of Watch: August 24, 1894
Cause: SHOT
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Description: Detective Owens was shot by two robbers while aboard a northbound freight train. When the train paused at the Deerfield station in Illinois to load water, two robbers boarded the train and stole a watch from the conductor. When Detective Owens entered the caboose, the robbers shot and killed him when he refused to surrender. The suspects were convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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