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Detective

Harry J. Noble

New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Police Department — Cleveland, OH

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch April 26, 1911

Age 37

The Vigil Panel 25 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 9

Incident

Location: Ohio Incident Date: Monday, April 24, 1911 Weapon: Handgun Offender: Sentenced to a reformatory

Detective Harry Noble succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained two days earlier when he was shot in the back while arresting two men for trespassing in the rail yards in Bellevue, Ohio.

He was leading one of the men away when the second subject, a 17-year-old boy, shot him in the back. Despite being wounded, Detective Noble returned fire and wounded one of the subjects in the arm as they fled. Both were arrested and held in connection with Detective Noble's death.

The young boy, because of his age, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a indeterminate term in the Mansfield Reformatory. The other suspect, age 28, was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life. He escaped from prison in November of 1912.

Detective Noble was a U.S. Army veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and four children.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Detective Noble served with the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Cleveland community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Cleveland, OH

Platform Identity nycslrpd.rr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 26, 1911

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Harry J. Noble served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Detective Harry J. Noble 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 OH, 572 of 991 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 57.7% of this state's fallen. That is 57.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Police Department, 4 of 10 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40% of this agency's fallen.

New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Police Department

of 10 officers

40% Felonious

OH — Statewide

572

of 991 officers

57.7% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Felonious