Thomas C. Logan

Mobile and Ohio Railroad Police Department — Mobile, AL

Felonious

End of Watch January 13, 1914

Age 48

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 3

Incident

Location: Illinois Weapon: Handgun Offender: Shot and killed

Chief Special Agent Thomas Logan was shot and killed near Cairo, Illinois, while leading a posse of special agents from several railroads who were searching for copper thieves.

The group encountered a man and a boy sitting next to a fire on the railroad right-of-way just north of Cairo. Chief Logan approached them and began to search them. The man suddenly produced a handgun and shot him several times, including a fatal shot to his head. The man was overpowered and taken into custody by the other two special agents.

He was convicted of Chief Logan's murder and sentenced to death, but escaped from jail with several other inmates three weeks before his execution date. On May 14th, 1915, the subject fatally shot Sheriff John Kearby, of the Butler County, Missouri, Sheriff's Office, when the sheriff and a constable attempted to question him when they encountered him trespassing in the railroad yards in Poplar Bluff. The man was shot and killed by return gunfire.

Chief Special Agent Logan was survived by his wife and son.

Survivors

Chief Special Agent Logan was survived by his wife and son.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Chief Special Agent Logan served with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Mobile community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Chief Special Agent Logan.

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

Agency

Department Mobile and Ohio Railroad Police Department

Location Mobile, AL

Platform Identity morpd.rr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 13, 1914

Age 48

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Gunfire

Weapon Handgun

Offender Shot and killed

Chief Special Agent Thomas C. Logan 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 AL, 405 of 643 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63% of this state's fallen. That is 8.8 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Mobile and Ohio Railroad Police Department, 4 of 4 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Mobile and Ohio Railroad Police Department

of 4 officers

100% Felonious

AL — Statewide

405

of 643 officers

63% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious