Patrolman Emil A. Newberg

Emil A. Newberg

Patrolman Emil Newberg and Detective Lieutenant Thomas Truesdale were both shot and killed as they tried to disarm a suicidal man who had barricaded himself in a bathroom with a pistol. The suspect, 35, walked away from a veterans mental hospital in Brockton, Mass. on October 21,1957. He was committed in a Providence mental hospital where he died in 1983.

Patrolman Newberg had served with the Pawtuckett Police Department for 30 years. He was survived by his wife and six children.