WILLIAM PHELPS
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Officer Rank: Customs Inspector
Memorial Panel: 13-E: 28
Department: U.S. Customs Service
End of Watch: December 18, 1868
Cause: SHOT
Age: 20
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Customs Inspectors Phelps and George Hammond were shot by a group of bandits who were robbing the Customs House in Brownsville, Texas. Both Inspectors were shot multiple times and their bodies mutilated. Inspector Ryan Reynolds was also wounded but survived.
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