전선 도둑은 경찰을 죽이

금요일 전에, 4월 7, 1916, 이상이었다, 루이스 형제는 두 개의 성을 죽일 것입니다. 루이 경찰관, 존 맥 케나와 윌리엄 딜런. 멕 케나는 가을에 처음, 그는이 중단되면 형제는 전선을 훔치려, a valuable commodity during World War I. The brothers would kill Dillon, while he investigated McKenna’s murder.

세인트. Louis Police Department assigned McKenna to look for the wire thieves, 누가 오늘의 센트럴 웨스트 엔드 (West End) 근처 영역에서 도둑질했다. McKenna observed the Lewis Brothers, Ora and Roy, park their stolen vehicle, in the alley behind 4178 DELMAR대로. When McKenna went to speak with the Lewis brothers, they attempted to flee. McKenna pulled his revolver on the Lewis brothers and stopped them at 4172 DELMAR대로.

McKenna took a pistol off the taller of the two men and placed it in his pocket. McKenna then put his own revolver away and walked the Lewis brothers to the Motor Car Gasoline Co. 에 618 N. 티어 거리. 주유소까지 주유소 남아 1997, 그것은 철거 때. McKenna asked George Fisher, 이 회사의 직원, 경찰서를 호출.

McKenna then began to search the larger man. 로이 루이스, the taller brother, distracted McKenna allowing Ora Lewis to walk behind McKenna. Ora Lewis pulled a pistol that McKenna missed during his initial search of the brothers.

Ora Lewis fired a single shot into McKenna’s skull. The bullet killed McKenna two hours later. 생. Louis Detectives learned that Ora Lewis asked for a drink of water. 맥 케나는 그에게 권한을 준 경우, Ora Lewis walked behind McKenna and shot him in the back of the head.

피셔는 총을 듣고 멕 케나에 떨어지는 볼 설정. The Lewis brothers ran back to their automobile and fled down the alley at a high rate of speed. A milk truck driver and another citizen attempted to follow the brothers, but they lost the fleeing felons at the intersection of Vandeventer and Delmar Boulevards.

A citizen saw the brothers abandon the mud-spattered car at Belleview and College Avenues. The Lewis brothers transferred bundles from the stolen Ford into a Hudson. The brothers stole the Ford from Palm Street on March 21, 1916.

의 소유자 4172 DELMAR대로, where McKenna stopped the brothers said the description of the murderers matched two men, 누가 그녀의 차고를 임대했다. 그들은 스프링 필드에서 주장, 일리노이. They had been coming in and out with different automobiles during the past two months.

The brothers lived in the 4200 트론 번가의 블록. It would be there that they killed their second police officer in 24 시간. 윌리엄 딜론 루이스 형제의 것과 설명을 인식, also known as the DeMorris boys after their stepfather, Dillon decided to head to the DeMorris home and investigate.

멕 케나에 9 월에 태어났다 10, 1886, 이었다 29 세. 그는 과부를 남겨. 그는 아들과 세인트의 조카. 루이 경찰관. 그의 아버지, 어머니와 여동생이 그의 침대 옆에 있었다, when McKenna passed.

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