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James Edward Meehan

Case from Franklin, PA dated Nov 23, 1907

Victim Details

James Edward Meehan

Male

White / Caucasian

Franklin

PA

1907-11-23

41

James

Edward Meehan

07/19/2026

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Police Captain James Edward Meehan, aged 40, was shot and mortally wounded on November 23, 1907, in Franklin, Pennsylvania. Captain Meehan, a male of Caucasian ethnicity, was patrolling his beat when he witnessed a suspect, along with two companions, attacking a man on the 13th Street Bridge. As he intervened, the suspect fled, but Captain Meehan managed to arrest his two companions.

The suspect, whose identity remains unrecorded in available sources, was later identified as the one who s ...
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