Bio & Incident Details
Age: 32
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 6/5/1898
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Not available
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City Marshal Walter Meloan was shot and killed as he was attempting to break up a fight on a excursion boat.
The boat had just arrived from Quincy, Illinois, with 300 passengers on board when a fight broke out between a man and a woman. As Marshal Meloan attempted to arrest the man a shot was fired from within the crowd which struck him in the back, killing him instantly. Four suspects were arrested and confined in the local jail. That night an angry mob forcefully removed two of the suspects and hanged them from the nearest tree.
