OTTO WITBECK
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 36-W: 11
Department: Salt Lake County, Utah, S.O.
End of Watch: November 21, 1913
Cause: SHOT
Age: 40
Years of Service: 4
Description: Deputy Sheriff Witbeck, Deputy Nephi Jensen and Chief of Police J.W. Grant were in pursuit of a suspect to serve a warrant for murder and theft when they were ambushed and fatally shot. Deputy Sheriffs Thomas Manderich and J. Douglas Hulsey were killed eight days later while attempting to arrest the suspect. The suspect escaped and was not apprehended until 1921 when he was killed by the Texas Rangers.
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