ROSCO WILLIAM WHELESS
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Officer Rank: Sergeant
Memorial Panel: 45-W: 25
Department: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, P.D.
End of Watch: March 4, 1924
Cause: SHOT
Age: 34
Years of Service:
Description: Sergeant Wheless was shot and killed while checking a freight train in the South Rocky Mount Yards in North Carolina. Sergeant Wheless located three hobos inside a freight car. As he was taking the hobos into custody, one of them produced a handgun and shot him in the neck. Sergeant Wheless was taken to the hospital where he died the following day. The suspect was arrested and convicted of murder.
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