Officer Thomas F. Griffiths Memorial Plaque
Salt Lake City Police Department
Honoring Our Fallen
Officer Thomas F. Griffiths
Killed in the Line of Duty - June 25, 1913
Officer Thomas Griffiths, 39, responded to a call near 250 West 200 South where he arrested a suspect for assault. While headed to a nearby all box, the suspect broke away and fled. Griffiths pursued the suspect to this location where he was shot three times.
The suspect was arrested and imprisoned, but he escaped in 1919, never to be recaptured. Married and the father of six children, Griffiths is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. Learn more about Salt Lake City Police Department's fallen officers at www.slcpd.com.
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Erected by the Police History Project, November 2011