Herbert D E Moore

In the pre-dawn hours of a spring day in 1901, the life of Herbert Daniel Eaton Moore, a 30-year-old White male, was tragically cut short. Moore, who had been appointed as a special officer for the Cumberland Police in 1899, was walking his post in Valley Falls, near the Central Falls line. It was an era before the convenience of police radios or the widespread use of telephones, a time when an officer encountering trouble was largely on his own.

Around forty minutes after the police chie ...

Special Officer Herbert D. Moore

A Murderous Night In Cumberland - Smith-Appleby House Museum