BENJAMIN FRANKLIN YOST
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Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 42-W: 31
Department: Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, P.D.
End of Watch: July 6, 1875
Cause: SHOT
Age: 34
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Patrolman Yost was on duty and was attempting to extinguish a street light when he was ambushed and fatally shot by two members of the Mollie McGuire gang. The shooting was in retaliation of an earlier arrest of a member of the gang.
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