Officer David H. Crowther was killed in the line of duty October 12, 1923.

Officer Crowther was shot to death by a transient. A search was launched when he failed to return home from patrol the previous night. At 10 a.m., the body of the 45-year-old victim was found on a bank of the Jordan River, three blocks from his home. He had been shot once ...

Injured in an incident four months earlier, Sergeant Nephi Pierce succumbed to wounds received in the line of duty March 26, 1923.

Shortly after midnight on November 27, 1922, Sergeant Pierce and Officer George Watson were on foot patrol near 525 S. Main Street. As they attempted to question two men matching the descriptions of a pair of robbery suspects, one of the suspects drew ...