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Officer Carl J. Bickett
End of Watch: Monday, July 18, 1921
On July
19, 1921, Officer Carl J. Bickett, in plainclothes,
was attempting a raid on a room in the Arcadia
hotel at 322 W. 12th Street, when the man
he was questioning ran. Bickett chased the
man into an alley between Central Street
and Broadway, where a gunfight occurred.
The assailant escaped, and Bickett was fatally
wounded. Bickett was discovered lying in
front of the La Casa Hotel (325 West 11th
Street), his gun in his right hand and his
police star in his left.
Officer
Bickett joined the police department in
1915.
(It should
be noted that Officer Bickett was the son-in-law
of Thomas J. Wilson, another officer killed
in the line of duty in 1923.)
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