Samuel Norton

Samuel Norman, a constable with the Tarentum Borough Police Department, was shot and killed on July 26, 1877, by August Myers, a “drunken German,” when trying to arrest him on a warrant for assaulting a woman.

Myers was never apprehended.

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Author: Bill Lofquist

I am a sociologist and death penalty scholar at the State University of New York at Geneseo. I am also a Pittsburgh native. My present research focuses on the history of the death penalty in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pa.

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