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Special Agent Joseph J. Kucera, Jr. | Illinois Central Railroad Police Department, Railroad Police Illinois Central Railroad Police Department, Railroad Police

Special Agent

Joseph J. Kucera, Jr.

Illinois Central Railroad Police Department, Railroad Police

End of Watch: Monday, April 29, 1929

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 28

Tour: Not available

Badge # Not available

Cause: Assault

Location: Illinois

Incident Date: 3/10/1929

Weapon: Person

Suspect: Not available

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Special Agent Joseph Kucera succumbed to injuries suffered seven weeks earlier when he was thrown from a Michigan Central Railroad freight car near East 14th Street in Chicago, Illinois.

He was attempting to eject three men from a railroad car when they attacked him and threw him from the train.

Agent Kucera was survived by his wife.

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Although 82 years have passed since your actions that night, please know they will not be forgotten. Sites like this allow your example to live on.

Detective Thomas Downes
Chicago
April 27, 2011

 

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