Pittsburgh Police Department Officer Roy Freiss was directing traffic on the south side of the Smithfield Street Bridge on February 3, 1935, when he was struck and killed by a car driven by Marcel Forcinal.
Forcinal, proprietor of Frenchy’s Restaurant, was drunk at the time. He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on May 27, 1935, and was placed on probation for three years and ordered to pay restitution to Freiss’s widow.
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