Officer James A. Davis, Beaumont Police Department, Texas

Officer James A. Davis

Beaumont Police Department, Texas

End of Watch Sunday, December 6, 1925

James A. Davis

Officer Davis was killed while attempting to stop a team of runaway-horses pulling a wagon. Officer Davis observed the animals entering a busy street and attempted to stop them to save citizens. Part of the wagon struck Officer Davis, causing severe head and internal injuries.

He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries the next day.

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Incident Details

Cause Struck by vehicle
Incident Date Saturday, December 5, 1925

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This was my great grandfather. This story has been told to me since I was young, and now I patrol the same streets that he, my father, and now my brother, son and I patrol today. I talked about it in shift-meeting this morning. He was also employed as a milk inspector before he became a police officer. A runaway ice-wagon got away and he tried to stop it, being hit in the chest with the horse-drawn wagon's yoke. He died the next day. My grandmother said she remembered as a young child hearing him struggling to breathe as they visited him in the hospital.

Sergeant T.L. Bean
Beaumont PD

December 5, 2017