JOSEPH NELSON SMITH
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 26-E: 21
Department: Palm Beach, Florida, P.D.
End of Watch: June 6, 1923
Cause: SHOT
Age: 39
Years of Service: 3
Description: Officer Smith was shot and killed by a suspect as he investigated the mysterious butchering of a sea turtle. He was taken to a local hospital where he died three days later. A man who was believed to be one of the suspects in the case was found lynched later that month.
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