Deputy Simon J. Bermingham

Simon J. Bermingham

Deputy Simon Bermingham was shot and killed after responding with other officers to a report that a murder had taken place in Scottsville.

A young man had shot and killed his father after a dispute at their home near the Pennsylvania Railroad station along Caledonia Avenue. When the officers arrived at the scene they were met with a hail of gunfire and Deputy Bermingham was killed.

The suspect was arrested at the scene. He was charged with first-degree murder and later executed at Auburn Prison on March 31, 1913.