Captain George A. "Dick" Saville

George A. "Dick" Saville

Captain Dick Saville died of injuries he sustained following a violent struggle with three suspects. He and a plainclothes officer had stopped a drunken driver on Minnesota Avenue, but the three occupants of the vehicle violently resisted arrest by the officers. One of the men was knocked unconscious by the officers and placed in the front seat, while the other two were placed in the rear seat of the police car.

As the officer drove to the station Captain Saville continued to struggle with the two conscious suspects in the back seat. By the time they arrived at the police station, Captain Saville had died from being choked or from the trauma of the long, violent struggle.

Captain Saville was survived by his wife, daughter, and son.