RAILROAD PATROLMAN KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
Published in the Chatham Courier on Thursday October 12, 1933:
"SEARCH SPREADS FOR TRIO IN KILLING OF R.R. PATROLMAN.
MURDER VICTIM RELATED HERE.
WILLIAM E. DEAL SHOT DEAD IN R.R. YARD AT SCOTIA.
WIFE IS FORMER JENNIE DUGGAN OF CHATHAM.
State, municipal and railroad police of eastern New York and the New England border area today joined in a far flung hunt for a burly, 200 pound train rider and two lighter companions who last night shot and killed William E. Deal, a New York Central patrolman, in the railroad yards at Scotia.
Deal, 52, is a brother-in-law of Geo. Duggan, of Chatham, and was a frequent visitor and well known in the village. He married Miss Jennie Duggan twenty-four, years ago, who survives him, with one son, Thornton, 21, and five brothers and two sisters
Following funeral services in St. Joseph's church, Schenectady, Saturday morning, the body will be brought here for burial in St. James cemetery at Ghent.
Every highway, street and railroad in the Capitol District was under strict surveillance today in the search for the killers, while posses of state troopers and railroad police converged on any point from which there was a clue."
Coroner Treder determined that Deal had been killed by a 38 caliber bullet of a special type issued to railroad men.
Police began an immediate investigation to determine if the gun used was that stolen from Lt. Ernest H. Abbott of the B. and M. who was seized and bound by a group of men in the Mechaniceville yard on Tuesday afternoon. The bullet entered Deal's chin, severed his spine and lodged in the shoulder causing instant death. His own gun had been fired twice.
Deal joined the Central Police Service on Nov. 8, 1921 while living in Amsterdam but had resided in Schenectady for about five years. "
Note: There were hundreds of articles about Officer Deal's murder in local newspapers.
I attached this article because it has information about his immediate family and it indicates the cemetery where he was buried.
Published in the Chatham Courier on Thursday October 12, 1933:
"SEARCH SPREADS FOR TRIO IN KILLING OF R.R. PATROLMAN.
MURDER VICTIM RELATED HERE.
WILLIAM E. DEAL SHOT DEAD IN R.R. YARD AT SCOTIA.
WIFE IS FORMER JENNIE DUGGAN OF CHATHAM.
State, municipal and railroad police of eastern New York and the New England border area today joined in a far flung hunt for a burly, 200 pound train rider and two lighter companions who last night shot and killed William E. Deal, a New York Central patrolman, in the railroad yards at Scotia.
Deal, 52, is a brother-in-law of Geo. Duggan, of Chatham, and was a frequent visitor and well known in the village. He married Miss Jennie Duggan twenty-four, years ago, who survives him, with one son, Thornton, 21, and five brothers and two sisters
Following funeral services in St. Joseph's church, Schenectady, Saturday morning, the body will be brought here for burial in St. James cemetery at Ghent.
Every highway, street and railroad in the Capitol District was under strict surveillance today in the search for the killers, while posses of state troopers and railroad police converged on any point from which there was a clue."
Coroner Treder determined that Deal had been killed by a 38 caliber bullet of a special type issued to railroad men.
Police began an immediate investigation to determine if the gun used was that stolen from Lt. Ernest H. Abbott of the B. and M. who was seized and bound by a group of men in the Mechaniceville yard on Tuesday afternoon. The bullet entered Deal's chin, severed his spine and lodged in the shoulder causing instant death. His own gun had been fired twice.
Deal joined the Central Police Service on Nov. 8, 1921 while living in Amsterdam but had resided in Schenectady for about five years. "
Note: There were hundreds of articles about Officer Deal's murder in local newspapers.
I attached this article because it has information about his immediate family and it indicates the cemetery where he was buried.
RAILROAD PATROLMAN KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
Published in the Chatham Courier on Thursday October 12, 1933:
"SEARCH SPREADS FOR TRIO IN KILLING OF R.R. PATROLMAN.
MURDER VICTIM RELATED HERE.
WILLIAM E. DEAL SHOT DEAD IN R.R. YARD AT SCOTIA.
WIFE IS FORMER JENNIE DUGGAN OF CHATHAM.
State, municipal and railroad police of eastern New York and the New England border area today joined in a far flung hunt for a burly, 200 pound train rider and two lighter companions who last night shot and killed William E. Deal, a New York Central patrolman, in the railroad yards at Scotia.
Deal, 52, is a brother-in-law of Geo. Duggan, of Chatham, and was a frequent visitor and well known in the village. He married Miss Jennie Duggan twenty-four, years ago, who survives him, with one son, Thornton, 21, and five brothers and two sisters
Following funeral services in St. Joseph's church, Schenectady, Saturday morning, the body will be brought here for burial in St. James cemetery at Ghent.
Every highway, street and railroad in the Capitol District was under strict surveillance today in the search for the killers, while posses of state troopers and railroad police converged on any point from which there was a clue."
Coroner Treder determined that Deal had been killed by a 38 caliber bullet of a special type issued to railroad men.
Police began an immediate investigation to determine if the gun used was that stolen from Lt. Ernest H. Abbott of the B. and M. who was seized and bound by a group of men in the Mechaniceville yard on Tuesday afternoon. The bullet entered Deal's chin, severed his spine and lodged in the shoulder causing instant death. His own gun had been fired twice.
Deal joined the Central Police Service on Nov. 8, 1921 while living in Amsterdam but had resided in Schenectady for about five years. "
Note: There were hundreds of articles about Officer Deal's murder in local newspapers.
I attached this article because it has information about his immediate family and it indicates the cemetery where he was buried.
Published in the Chatham Courier on Thursday October 12, 1933:
"SEARCH SPREADS FOR TRIO IN KILLING OF R.R. PATROLMAN.
MURDER VICTIM RELATED HERE.
WILLIAM E. DEAL SHOT DEAD IN R.R. YARD AT SCOTIA.
WIFE IS FORMER JENNIE DUGGAN OF CHATHAM.
State, municipal and railroad police of eastern New York and the New England border area today joined in a far flung hunt for a burly, 200 pound train rider and two lighter companions who last night shot and killed William E. Deal, a New York Central patrolman, in the railroad yards at Scotia.
Deal, 52, is a brother-in-law of Geo. Duggan, of Chatham, and was a frequent visitor and well known in the village. He married Miss Jennie Duggan twenty-four, years ago, who survives him, with one son, Thornton, 21, and five brothers and two sisters
Following funeral services in St. Joseph's church, Schenectady, Saturday morning, the body will be brought here for burial in St. James cemetery at Ghent.
Every highway, street and railroad in the Capitol District was under strict surveillance today in the search for the killers, while posses of state troopers and railroad police converged on any point from which there was a clue."
Coroner Treder determined that Deal had been killed by a 38 caliber bullet of a special type issued to railroad men.
Police began an immediate investigation to determine if the gun used was that stolen from Lt. Ernest H. Abbott of the B. and M. who was seized and bound by a group of men in the Mechaniceville yard on Tuesday afternoon. The bullet entered Deal's chin, severed his spine and lodged in the shoulder causing instant death. His own gun had been fired twice.
Deal joined the Central Police Service on Nov. 8, 1921 while living in Amsterdam but had resided in Schenectady for about five years. "
Note: There were hundreds of articles about Officer Deal's murder in local newspapers.
I attached this article because it has information about his immediate family and it indicates the cemetery where he was buried.
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