Albert O. Dolbow
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Patrolman

Albert O. Dolbow

Kansas City Police Department — Kansas City, MO
Felonious
End of Watch December 8, 1908
Age 34
Tour of Duty 3 yrs
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Gender Male

Incident

Patrolman Dolbow and Patrolman Michael Mullane were shot and killed after being dispatched to a disturbance involving a nudist preacher. The Preachers followers were heavily armed and very antagonistic towards authority figures. When Patrolman Dolbow and Mullane arrived, they became involved in a gunfight with the preacher and his assistant preacher. When it was all over the assistant preacher, his 12 year-old daughter, a bystander, and both officers lay dead in the street. The preacher was captured the next day and charged with Patrolman Mullane's murder. He was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison on May 29, 1909. He was paroled in 1923. He died March 8, 1946, at the age of 89. Patrolman Dolbow had been with the agency for three years.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Patrolman Dolbow gave the Kansas City Police Department 3 years.
Thank you for your service to the Kansas City community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Dolbow.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Kansas City, Cass County, MO
Platform Identity kcpd.jackson.mo.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 8, 1908
Tour of Duty 3 yrs
Age 34
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Not available

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Albert is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

33,917 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1908, 129 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 35th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Albert was 34. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Albert had served 3 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

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When

December holds 9.4% of these deaths in the United States, more than any other month. Tuesdays: 13.4%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was not available, in 0.5% of these deaths.

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His people

Kansas City Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Albert among them.

Across the years

Patrolman Albert O. Dolbow

Kansas City Police Department · End of Watch December 8, 1908

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 50-W

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