Bio & Incident Details
Age: 47
Tour: 9 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Fall
Incident Date: 1/11/1918
Weapon: Not available
Suspect: Not available
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Officer Marion Ellis succumbed to injuries suffered 12 days earlier when he fell down a flight of stairs into the basement of a building.
Officer Ellis thought that the door he was entering led to an office, but it instead had a staircase to the basement. Officer Ellis suffered a fractured skull in the fall and died 12 days later.
Officer Ellis had served with the Indianapolis Police Department for nine years. He was survived by his wife and 13-year-old daughter.
