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Paul Mendelssohn

Case from Waterbury, CT dated Mar 08, 1903

Victim Details

Paul Mendelssohn

Male

White / Caucasian

Waterbury

CT

1903-03-08

26

Paul

Mendelssohn

07/05/2026

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In the tumultuous spring of 1903 in Waterbury, Connecticut, a city gripped by a bitter labor strike, the life of a young man was tragically cut short. Paul Mendelssohn, a 26-year-old Jewish police officer, was the first of his faith to serve on the city's police force. In early March of that year, the city was in the throes of a railway labor strike, a dispute that had already stretched on for fifty-six days and created an atmosphere of tension and unrest throughout the community.

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