 | Officer Harry R. Farrell
Officer Farrell age 36, was involved in a shooting with an armed robbery suspect at 8:15 PM on August 4, 1931 near the alley of Third Street and Alabama Street.
Officer Farrell and the suspect (Louis E. Jeffries) were both shot during the gun battle. Officer Farrell died 20 minutes later of a single gun shot to the abdomen at Saint Elizabeth Hospital.
Jeffries was found 3 hours later in the backyard of 124 South Street, dead of his wounds.
Jeffries had just robbed the Kenneth Lockard Gas Station on the Brown Street Levee in West Lafayette of $24.00. Jeffries left the scene in a vehicle parked outside of the Gas Station and proceeded across the Wabash river on the Brown Street bridge into Lafayette.
When Jeffries reached 4th Street and Columbia Street, his brakes failed and he ran from the vehicle. Officer Farrell was just leaving the Police Department after he was advised of the armed robbery in West Lafayette. Officer Farrell saw Jeffries running after a witness advised him that
the person running was the robber. Officer Farrell chased Jeffries to Third Street and Alabama Street where the gun fight occured.
Officer Farrell was buried in Oxford, Indiana at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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