"Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor, Phillips County Sheriff's Department, Arkansas,
End of Watch Saturday, August 24, 1935 [ https://www.odmp.org/officer/21491-deputy-sheriff-daniel-oconnor ].
"Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor was shot and killed by a 17-year-old boy when he and other officers attempted to arrest the boy's father at their home for drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident. In an exchange of gunfire the boy's father was killed. Before fleeing the youth stabbed another officer in the back. Bloodhounds led officers to a nearby woods where he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
Sources: News item above thanks to contributor Gil Miller (50102257); Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; Bonner, Kathryn Marie Rose, The Bonner Family Record (privately published, 1979), 51; 1930; Census Place: West Helena, Phillips, Arkansas; Roll: 87; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0009.
End of Watch Saturday, August 24, 1935 [ https://www.odmp.org/officer/21491-deputy-sheriff-daniel-oconnor ].
"Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor was shot and killed by a 17-year-old boy when he and other officers attempted to arrest the boy's father at their home for drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident. In an exchange of gunfire the boy's father was killed. Before fleeing the youth stabbed another officer in the back. Bloodhounds led officers to a nearby woods where he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
Sources: News item above thanks to contributor Gil Miller (50102257); Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; Bonner, Kathryn Marie Rose, The Bonner Family Record (privately published, 1979), 51; 1930; Census Place: West Helena, Phillips, Arkansas; Roll: 87; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0009.
"Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor, Phillips County Sheriff's Department, Arkansas,
End of Watch Saturday, August 24, 1935 [ https://www.odmp.org/officer/21491-deputy-sheriff-daniel-oconnor ].
"Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor was shot and killed by a 17-year-old boy when he and other officers attempted to arrest the boy's father at their home for drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident. In an exchange of gunfire the boy's father was killed. Before fleeing the youth stabbed another officer in the back. Bloodhounds led officers to a nearby woods where he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
Sources: News item above thanks to contributor Gil Miller (50102257); Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; Bonner, Kathryn Marie Rose, The Bonner Family Record (privately published, 1979), 51; 1930; Census Place: West Helena, Phillips, Arkansas; Roll: 87; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0009.
End of Watch Saturday, August 24, 1935 [ https://www.odmp.org/officer/21491-deputy-sheriff-daniel-oconnor ].
"Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor was shot and killed by a 17-year-old boy when he and other officers attempted to arrest the boy's father at their home for drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident. In an exchange of gunfire the boy's father was killed. Before fleeing the youth stabbed another officer in the back. Bloodhounds led officers to a nearby woods where he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
Sources: News item above thanks to contributor Gil Miller (50102257); Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941; Bonner, Kathryn Marie Rose, The Bonner Family Record (privately published, 1979), 51; 1930; Census Place: West Helena, Phillips, Arkansas; Roll: 87; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0009.
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