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Clerk

Alfred H. Walker

Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - Division of Correction — Baltimore, MD

Felonious

End of Watch July 8, 1927

Age 63

The Vigil Panel 53 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Clerk Alfred Walker succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained three days earlier during an escape attempt by two inmates from the Maryland State Penitentiary in Baltimore, Maryland. One of the inmates had obtained a gun which had been smuggled into the prison.

As was common practice, another guard who had gone on his lunch break gave Clerk Walker to take over his duties until he returned. The two prisoners had observed this practice and devised a plan to attack Clerk Walker and escape while he was on watch.

After forging a pass to allow them access to a passageway, the two inmates walked to room where Clerk Walker was and knocked on the door. When Clerk Walker opened the door the inmate with the gun immediately opened fire, striking him in the shoulder and chest.

A prison telephone operator immediately yelled out a window at a passing taxi driver, who then alerted nearby police officers of the shooting. As the officers responded to the prison another guard shot and wounded the inmate with the gun, and then the second inmate, who had picked up Clerk Walker's gun.

Clerk Walker was taken to a local hospital where he died three days later.

Both men were convicted of Clerk Walker's murder and sentenced to death. They were both executed by hanging in the prison on August 3, 1928.

Clerk Walker was survived by his wife.

Survivors

Clerk Walker was survived by his wife.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Clerk Walker served with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
Thank you for your service to the people of Maryland. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Clerk Walker.

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

Agency

Department Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - Division of Correction

Type Corrections

Location Baltimore, MD

Platform Identity mdpscsdcdps.baltimore.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 8, 1927

Age 63

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Gunfire

Weapon Handgun

Clerk Alfred H. Walker is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In MD, 195 of 377 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 51.7% of this state's fallen. That is 51.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - Division of Correction, 6 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - Division of Correction

of 6 officers

100% Felonious

MD — Statewide

195

of 377 officers

51.7% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Felonious