On the afternoon of February 17, 1938, Deputy Marshals T. Dwight Crittenden and Leon W. Romer were attempting to serve an eviction order when they were met by gunfire.
Crittenden and Romer arrived to evict George Farley and his wife as the follow up of a 24 hour notice. Eyewitness accounts say shots were heard shortly after Crittenden and Romer entered the house. Romer staggered down the front steps and fell, immediately followed by Crittenden who reached the street before Farley shot him one final time.
Farley then barricaded himself in the house and continued to fire at police who surrounded the residence. After approximately an hour, officers fired tear gas canisters into the home. Farley was found severely wounded. He was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve 10 to 20 years in San Quentin.
Deputy Marshal Crittenden was survived by his wife and 23-year-old son. Deputy Marshal Romer was survived by his wife.
On the afternoon of February 17, 1938, Deputy Marshals T. Dwight Crittenden and Leon W. Romer were attempting to serve an eviction order when they were met by gunfire.
Crittenden and Romer arrived to evict George Farley and his wife as the follow up of a 24 hour notice. Eyewitness accounts say shots were heard shortly after Crittenden and Romer entered the house. Romer staggered down the front steps and fell, immediately followed by Crittenden who reached the street before Farley shot him one final time.
Farley then barricaded himself in the house and continued to fire at police who surrounded the residence. After approximately an hour, officers fired tear gas canisters into the home. Farley was found severely wounded. He was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve 10 to 20 years in San Quentin.
Deputy Marshal Crittenden was survived by his wife and 23-year-old son. Deputy Marshal Romer was survived by his wife.
Sergeant Richard H. Trembath was returning to his home in Berkeley after two weeks of training at the Academy in Sacramento, when his motorcycle collided head-on with an automobile in the middle lane of a three-lane highway near the Carquinez Bridge. Trembath, 34, was killed on what was to have been his last day as a motorcycle officer. He had just been promoted to sergeant and was to have been transferred to patrol car duty the next day.
Patrolman Thomas A. Keays, who was born in Irelan in 1885, died on Nov. 20, of exhaustion shortly after pulling a mangled body from underneath a streetcar in the downtown area. He had been with San Diego Police Department for 16 years.
He was survived by his wife, Dolores Agnes, and six children: Thomas William, Marie Agnes, Madeline Elizabeth, Robert John, Myrtle Lillian and James Lawrence.
