Charles W. Dimock served in the U.S. Army.
Chief of Police Charles Dimock died after falling from a railroad bridge while attempting to arrest a group of hobos who were riding on a Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train.
He had received word that 15 men were riding on the train by a railroad detective. The detective, Chief Dimock, and several other officers had gone to the railroad bridge outside of town and intercepted it. After removing seven people from the train Chief Dimock fell through a gap in the railroad ties on the bridge. He fell 36 feet to the rocks below and suffered a fatal back injury.
Chief Dimock was a Union Army veteran of the Civil War and had served with the Towanda Borough Police Department for 15 years.
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In tribute
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.
Chief of Police Dimock gave the Towanda Borough Police Department 15 years.
Thank you for your service to the Towanda community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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