HENRY VINCENT
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Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 61-E: 2
Department: Union Pacific Railroad, P.D.
End of Watch: August 19, 1878
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Special Agents Vincent and Robert Widdowfield were on the trail of a group of train robbers known as the George Parrot gang when they were ambushed and shot. When they did not return, a posse went in search of the men and found their bodies in a canyon on Elk Mountain in Wymoing. Agent Widdowfield had been shot twice in the neck. Agent Vincent had been shot four times in the chest.
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