Watchman John Davis
Watchman Davis, described as an old and faithful officer, one morning during 1846 did not return from his patrol.  For several days, a search ensued in vain.  Then, some boys accidentally came across his decomposed remains in high weeds in the Twelfth Street Burying Ground (now know as Washington Park) at 12th and Race Streets.  Investigators determined he has been shot and his body was thrown over the fence.  He was unarmed at the time of his murder.  Apparently, no residents heard a report of a pistol.  A $1000 reward was offered for the identification, arrest, and conviction of his murderer, but to no avail.

Over the years, a notorious character named Walter Maythes, when intoxicated, would boast in such a way as to leave little doubt that he was the murderer.  Fouche Gould later shot and killed Maythes in self defense in a saloon on the north side of Sixth Street between Plum and Elm Streets.  Neither Maythes or anyone else were ever charged with Watchman Davis’s murder.

Watchman John Strawther
Two or more weeks after Watchman Davis’s murder in 1846, a paper carrier found the body of Watchman Strawther on Baum Street above the Water Works.  He had been stabbed in the heart.  It was assumed for years that burglars had killed him as he was very good at rooting them out.  But years later, a prisoner in the St. Louis, Missouri jail gave a dying declaration admitting to the murder.  His motive was that Watchman Strawther had sufficient evidence on a Jerry Lowden Lim and his group of counterfeiters to have them convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary.  The name of the prisoner is still lost to history.

Officer John Brasher
On May 6, 1849 Officer Brasher was shot and killed by Jesse Jones, an ex-convict and burglary suspect.

Watchman Henry Carroll
Many of the City’s German population immigrated to the United States after a failed rebellion in Germany during 1848. The more active of the rebels called themselves the “Forty-Eighters”. During 1853, Father Bedini visited Cincinnati and stayed at 8th and Plum Streets at the St. Peter and Chains Cathedral. The Forty-Eighters considered him an informant during the rebellion and, on December 24, 1853, they marched on the Cathedral in protest. Police met them at the current location of City Hall. During the melee, Watchman Carroll was shot. He died the next day on Christmas Day, 1853. The shooter was never identified.

Lieutenant Levi Parker
Lieutenant Parker was killed by Harry Harrington, a saloon-keeper, April 27, 1856 when he attempted to intercede in Harrington’s beating his wife at Front and Ludlow Streets. Harrington earned a life sentence, but a few years later Harrington's friends convinced the governor that he pined to return to Ireland. The governor pardoned him and, once pardoned, Harrington went to Covington, Kentucky instead.

Officer Claborne Long
Officer Daniel Hallam
On January 9th, 1861, while searching for a girl thought to be held in the house of Emma Clemmens on the east side of Main Street between 6th and 7th Streets, Officers Long and Hallam were fatally stabbed.

Officer Uriah H. Sears
On April 17, 1870, two days after being rehired to the police force, during a scuffle, Jerry Lynch stabbed Officers Sears. Officer Sears died the following day on April 18.