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William Dillon was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon het geglo dat die Lewis Brothers, wat die motor en draad diewe, was verantwoordelik vir die McKenna se dood.

Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Hy het gesien hoe twee van die Lewis-broers die motorhuis in die Ford binnekom. Dillon entered the garage behind them. No one saw Dillon alive again.

Volgens In Die lyn van die reg: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath and Stephen Pollihan, Dillon drew his revolver, when one of the brothers started to pull a gun. Dillon told him to drop the gun, and the man complied.

Egter, as Dillon investigated the trunk of the vehicle to inspect stolen copper wire, Frank Lewis struck Dillon in the head with a hatchet. His younger brother Ora joined in. The Lewis brothers bludgeoned Dillon to death.

'n Derde broer, Roy Lewis, wat saam met Ora was, toe Ora offisier McKenna geskiet het, by die motorhuis ingestap ná die moord op Dillon. Roy Lewis later confessed to his participation in the crimes and provided details to the police.

According to the April 8, 1916, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, witnesses saw Dillon entering the garage. Een van die getuies, 'n afleweringsbestuurder, saw Dillon enter the garage by himself. Egter, the driver said when he left 10 of 15 minutes later, hy het Dillon nie gesien nie. Beide die Ford en Hudson was weg uit die stegie, when the delivery driver left.

The Lewis brothers abandoned the Ford at Belleview and College Avenues. The original reports said the Lewis brothers abandoning the car after killing McKenna. Egter, the Lewis brothers took the Ford home first, where Frank Lewis murdered Dillon.

St. Louis Detectives believed one of the bundles the Lewis brothers removed from the vehicle was the body of Officer Dillon. Detectives found blood on the trunk and door frame of the vehicle. The detectives also found a button from a police uniform on the floorboard of the Ford.

The Lewis brother abandoned the Hudson in Overland Park. Detectives found two hundred pounds of stolen copper wire. Hours later, a farmer found Officer Dillon’s body in a field. A fractured skull killed Dillon.

Police arrested John DeMorris, the Lewis’ stepfather, en Roy “Joe” Lewis. Die polisie het 'n gesteelde voertuig gevind, auto parts, firearms, and equipment used to stop trains at the Athlone house. The family used the aliases DeMorris, Lewis and Baty.

Officer Dillon was born on September 19, 1877. Hy was 38 years old at the time of his death. He left a father, who was a city firefighter, and seven brothers.

In September 1916, Die polisie in Kansas City het Ora en Roy Lewis gearresteer. Frank Lewis het ontsnap. Die Lewis-broers was oorspronklik van Kansas City, maar is daar weg 1914, toe Frank of Ora 'n Kansas City-polisiebeampte geskiet het.

A jury convicted Ora Lewis and Roy Lewis for Officer McKenna’s murder. Roy Lewis bedien 24 years before the state paroled Roy Lewis in 1941. Roy managed to stay out of trouble after his parole.

The state paroled Ora Lewis three times but Lewis violated parole and returned to prison every time for new crimes. In 1956, St. Louis Detectives shot and killed Lewis. Lewis was on parole for the third and last time.

The Kansas City Police captured Frank Lewis in 1917. Frank Lewis contracted pneumonia, terwyl hulle op uitlewering wag. Frank Lewis is oorlede by 18 jare wat sy kort maar gewelddadige lewe beëindig.

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