Daniel Webster

Connecticut Department of Correction — Wethersfield, CT

Felonious

End of Watch March 27, 1862

Age 50

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Warden Daniel Webster died of wounds he received when he was stabbed at the Wethersfield State Prison.

Approximately one week prior to the stabbing, Warden Webster had reprimanded the suspect, who was serving a life sentence for arson, for failing to complete his assigned prison work. On March 24, the suspect again refused to do his work and was sent to a room to await Warden Webster. When Warden Webster entered the suspect attacked him with a shoe knife, stabbing him two times, once in the side and once in the abdomen.

Warden Webster died from his wounds three days later.

Warden Webster was survived by his wife and four children and was buried at West Cemetery, Somers, Connecticut. The Webster Correctional Institution in Cheshire, Connecticut, is named after Warden Webster.

Survivors

Warden Webster was survived by his wife and four children and was buried at West Cemetery, Somers, Connecticut.

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164 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Warden Webster served with the Connecticut Department of Correction.
Thank you for your service to the Wethersfield community. Gone but never to be forgotten.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Connecticut Department of Correction

Location Wethersfield, CT

Platform Identity cdc.capitol.ct.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 27, 1862

Age 50

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Stabbed

Weapon Edged weapon; Knife

Offender Executed on September 19, 1862

Warden Daniel Webster is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In CT, 74 of 169 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 43.8% of this state's fallen. That is 10.4 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At Connecticut Department of Correction, 5 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Connecticut Department of Correction

of 5 officers

100% Felonious

CT — Statewide

of 169 officers

43.8% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious