Deputy Sheriff Clint McConnell, Decatur County Sheriff's Department, Iowa

Deputy Sheriff Clint McConnell

Decatur County Sheriff's Department, Iowa

End of Watch Friday, July 8, 1927

Clint McConnell

Deputy McConnell succumbed to gunshot wounds received the previous day while attempting to arrest two bootleggers. Both suspects escaped.

In 1931 police discovered that one of the suspects had died in a Los Angeles, California, hospital of a stroke a few days before the discovery. The other suspect was captured in Albany, Missouri, June 25, 1941. He convinced the jury that his dead accomplice killed Deputy McConnell and was acquitted.

Bio

Age 50
Tour Not available
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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Incident Date Thursday, July 7, 1927
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender Apprehended

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Time may have passed but you are not forgotten. I believe as long as someone remembers you or speaks your name, you are still with us.
Thank you for your heroism.
GOD Bless

Detention Officer A.Zambito
Texas

July 15, 2015