HENRY WENDELSTORF

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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 36-E: 25
Department: Queens County, New York, S.O.
End of Watch: June 25, 1897
Cause: BEAT
Age: 51
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Wendelstorf was beaten by a suspect he was attempting to arrest for assault. Deputy Wendelstorf went to a farm to investigate a report that two brothers had stolen some fruit and attacked the farmer with a razor. As Deputy Wendelstorf attempted to make the arrest, he was attacked by one of the suspects who was wielding a baseball bat. Deputy Wendelstorf died the next day of a fractured skull.
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