JOSEPH H TINNEY
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Officer Rank: Deputy Keeper
Memorial Panel: 6-E: 23
Department: New Jersey Department of Corrections
End of Watch: February 4, 1928
Cause: SHOT
Age: 37
Years of Service: 3
Description: Deputy Keeper Tinney was shot and killed by two inmates during a prison escape attempt. The handguns had been smuggled into the prison by another inmate who had been working on an outside detail. Deputy Keeper Tinney was shot several times by the escaping inmates.
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