Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: Not available
Badge # 4158
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 4/30/1931
Weapon: Handgun; .25 caliber
Suspect: Executed in 1931
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Officer Anthony Ruthy was shot and killed and Officer Patrick Durkin was mortally wounded by a man they attempted to arrest at the Chicago Public Library on Michigan Street. The man, wanted for a bank robbery in Neponset eight days earlier, had gone to the library to meet his wife who helped police set up a trap for him. When he saw Officers Ruthy and Durkin along with two other officers approaching him he produced a pistol and opened fire. Three officers were hit in an exchange of fire. The suspect ran up Randolph Street; was tackled by a store clerk; and arrested by police. Officer Ruthy died minutes later. Officer Durkin died at a local hospital two days later.
The suspect was convicted of Officer Ruthy's and Officer Durkin's murder on May 29, 1931. He was executed in the electric chair on October 16, 1931.
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