Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: Not available
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Cause: Gunfire
Weapon: Shotgun
Offender: Acquitted
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Patrolman Herbert Dreger was killed by a shotgun blast when he was ambushed as he walked his beat. Two suspects were arrested a short time later. Patrolman Dreger had arrested one of them three weeks earlier for drunk driving.
A month later both suspects were tried and acquitted. The suspect who Patrolman Dreger arrested for drunk driving died of natural causes in 1927.
Patrolman Dreger was survived by his wife.
