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Photograph: Patrolman Albert O. Dolbow

Patch image: Kansas City Police Department, Missouri






Patrolman Albert O. Dolbow
Kansas City Police Department
Missouri

End of Watch: Tuesday, December 8, 1908

Biographical Info
Age: 34
Tour of Duty: 3 years
Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Tuesday, December 8, 1908
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: One shot and killed

Patrolman Dolbow and Patrolman Michael Mullane were shot and killed after being dispatched to a disturbance involving a nudist preacher. The Preachers followers were heavily armed and very antagonistic towards authority figures. When Patrolman Dolbow and Mullane arrived, they became involved in a gunfight with the preacher and his assistant preacher. When it was all over the assistant preacher, his 12 year-old daughter, a bystander, and both officers lay dead in the street.

The preacher was captured the next day and charged with Patrolman Mullane's murder. He was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison on May 29, 1909. He was paroled in 1923. He died March 8, 1946, at the age of 89.

Patrolman Dolbow had been with the agency for three years.

Related Line of Duty Deaths
Patch image: Kansas City Police Department, MissouriPatrolman Michael P. Mullane
Kansas City Police Department, MO
EOW: Tuesday, December 8, 1908
Cause of Death: Gunfire

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