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.