Hancock County Sheriff's Office, West Virginia
End of Watch Monday, September 23, 1929
Add to My HeroesEdward Schumacker
Deputy Sheriff Edward Schumacker and Policeman Patrick Costella, of the Hollidays Cove Police Department, were killed in an automobile accident when their vehicle went off a 50-foot embankment at Chestunt Ridge on the Pittsburgh Road.
The two officers, along with a local justice of the peace and a citizens, were returning from Burggettstown, Pennsylvania, where they had gone to search for a suspected who had robbed a pool room of $900 several days earlier.
Deputy Schumacker was survived by his wife.
Bio
- Age 41
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Incident Details
- Cause Automobile crash
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