Thomas Edmond Young

Boston Police Department — Roxbury Crossing, MA

Illness

End of Watch January 10, 1912

Age 40

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Patrolman Thomas Young died as a result of complications of smoke inhalation that he suffered one week earlier while at the scene of a fire while on duty.

He had responded to a fire at a horse stable on Dudley Street in the city's Mount Pleasant Historic District. As a result of the fire, he developed pleurisy that turned into pneumonia. He died from complications at his home while under a doctor's care.

Patrolman Young had arrested the subject who shot and killed Sergeant Frederick Schlehuber on November 10th, 1910, in what is now the John Adams Courthouse.

Patrolman Young served with the Boston Police Department for 12 years and was assigned to the Roxbury Station.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and stepson.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Patrolman Young gave the Boston Police Department 12 years.
Thank you for your service to the Roxbury Crossing community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Young.

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

Agency

Department Boston Police Department

Location Roxbury Crossing, MA

Platform Identity bpd.suffolk.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 10, 1912

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

Age 40

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail Duty related illness

Patrolman Thomas Edmond Young is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MA, 59 of 469 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 12.6% of this state's fallen. That is 3.5 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.

At Boston Police Department, 22 of 106 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 20.8% of this agency's fallen.

Boston Police Department

of 106 officers

20.8% Illness

MA — Statewide

of 469 officers

12.6% Illness

Nationwide

2,974

of 32,508 officers

9.1% Illness