Moyamensing Township Police Department, Pennsylvania
End of Watch: Tuesday, May 28, 1850
Age: 27
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: May 26, 1850
Weapon Used: Rifle; Musket
Suspect Info: Not available
Watchman Neil Mooney succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained two days earlier when he was shot with a musket while putting out a bonfire that had been lit in a vacant lot at the corner of Eighth Street and Fitzwater Street.
He had just taken a prisoner to the watchhouse and was returning to his beat when he saw the fire. He entered the vacant lot in an area that a fence had been torn down and began to put it out when someone standing by the fence fire a musket at him, striking him in the head. He was taken to a hospital where he died.
Watchman Mooney was a veteran of the Cadwalader Grays, a militia created in preparation for the Mexican-American War that became part of the First Pennsylvania Regiment.