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| Watchman Henry Carroll
Cincinnati Police Division
Ohio
End of Watch: Sunday, December 25, 1853 Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Saturday, December 24, 1853
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Charges dismissed Watchman Carroll succumbed to gunshot wounds received the previous day when he was shot during a riot.
The riot was started by a group of rebels known as the Forty-Eighters, Germans who fled Germany in 1848 after a failed rebellion. A large group of them settled in Cincinnati. They were angry because a Catholic Bishop, who they considered a traitor to the rebellion, had been appointed to take charge of the Catholic Church in Cincinnati.
Several suspects were arrested and charged with murder, but the charges were dismissed three days later. Three weeks later the same group marched on Cincinnati City Hall a second time and were confronted by a large group of law enforcement officers.
During the second demonstration another disturbance occurred between the group and law enforcement officers in which Deputy Thomas Higdon, of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department, was stabbed to death. Related Line of Duty Deaths | |
