ROBERT SAYLOR

Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 55-W: 23
Department: Knoxville, Tennessee, P.D.
End of Watch: December 13, 1901
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: 4
Description: Patrolman Saylor, assisted by Patrolman William Dinwiddie, answered a disturbance call at a local saloon. A member of the infamous Butch Cassidy gang repeatedly shot both officers and beat them to death with their own nightsticks.
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