T. Perry Gates

In the late hours of a September night in 1900, a sense of duty called upon Officer T. Perry Gates, a 37-year-old White / Caucasian male member of the La Crosse Police Department. A report had come in from La Crescent, Minnesota, just across the Mississippi River, of a robbery. Three armed men had held up men in a railroad boxcar, brutally beating one who resisted, and had then fled on foot, likely heading towards La Crosse.

Officer Gates, along with his partner, Officer Schubert, quickly ...

Patrolman T. Perry Gates, LaCrosse Police Department, Wisconsin

LaCrosse Police Department, Wisconsin, Fallen Officers