Policeman Lowell Pew

Lowell Pew

Policeman Lowell Pew was shot and killed in the railroad yard by one of three tramps he caught breaking into a freight car. All three suspects were captured two months later.

On September 27, 1900, two of the suspects escaped from the Bowling Green Jail by tunneling out of their cell into a sewer which led to the outside. On October 7, 1900, they shot and mortally wounded Patrolman Raphael A. Girard of the Hannibal, Missouri, Police Department.