FRANK WADLEY
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Officer Rank: Detective
Memorial Panel: 8-W: 16
Department: East St. Louis, Illinois, P.D.
End of Watch: July 1, 1917
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Detectives Wadley and Samuel Coopedge were shot and killed during what came to be known as the "East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917." The police received a report that an armed mob was on the rampage. Detectives Wadley and Coopedge were dispatched to 10th and Bond. They were fired upon without warning. Twelve suspects were charged with murder and went to prison for the deaths of Detectives Frank Wadley and Samuel Coopedge. The riots stemmed from the employment of black workers in factories during WWI. Forty-eight people were killed and many others wounded.
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