Patrolman John H. A. Wilson

Patrolman John Harold Wilson was my uncle. He was killed in the line of duty the year before I was born. I will soon be 85 and remember the scrapbook that my mother had with a collection of newspaper articles and the many stories of the the murder and trial of the two criminals that were caught. My mother always said that there was another one, but he was never caught. My uncle was on duty in lower Manhattan when a woman leaned out a window yelling to him that there was a robbery occurring in the building. It was a gold smelting company where they melted down gold. There was hot wax used during the process. Patrolman Wilson went into the building, went up the stairs and entered the door to the company and was attacked and shot at, When it was over he had been shot nine times and dipped in the tub of hot wax. He died in the hospital a week later. His murderers were caught by leaving their fingerprints in the wax. They were convicted of murder and sentenced to Death in the Electric Chair. They received their just desserts at Sing Sing Prison. They should bring back the law that if you murder a police officer and are convicted that you receive the Death Penalty. I don’t know what that law was taken away.

Agnes S.
Niece.

October 15, 2023