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Keeper Samuel Calvert | New York State Department of Correctional Services, New York New York State Department of Correctional Services, New York

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Samuel Calvert

New York State Department of Correctional Services, New York

End of Watch: Sunday, March 17, 1872

Bio & Incident Details

Age: Not available

Tour: Not available

Badge # Not available

Cause: Stabbed

Incident Date: 3/17/1872

Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife

Suspect: Convicted of manslaughter

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Keeper Samuel Calvert suffered a fatal stab wound by a juvenile inmate at the House of Refuge on Randall's Island.

He was placing juveniles back in their cells at the end of the day when one of the boys began to resist. Keeper Calvert grabbed the boy by the collar and tried to place him into the cell when the boy produced a shoemaker's knife and stabbed him just above the knee, severing his femoral artery. He succumbed to wound and loss of blood three hours later.

The juvenile was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to one year at hard labor.

Keeper Calvert was survived by his wife.

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Since your passing, twenty two men in the family have become Lawmen and of that, five have followed in your path,myself included. Three for the City Correction Dept. Two of us, like You For the State and although the city has much changed since your time and the place where you kept watch is long gone,Not a year has gone by where a glass was not raised in your memory, here and in the old country. Walk your rounds in Heaven as we will walk ours down here, Slainte.

C.O. M.J. Walker
Nephew ,NYSDOCS
May 16, 2013

 

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