JAMES DAVID WRIGHT

Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 40-E: 28
Department: Portland, Oregon, P.D.
End of Watch: January 21, 1923
Cause: PHYS
Age: 34
Years of Service: 5
Description: On January 18, 1923, Patrolman Wright contracted pneumonia as he guarded the body of a man who had died of pneumonia. Patrolman Wright also searched the infested room where the man had died as he waited for the coroner to arrive at the boarding house to conduct his investigation. Patrolman Wright died of pneumonia three days later.
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