Standing inside the Akron Police Museum in 2017, Detective Jim Conley holds the revolver that Frank Mazzano used to kill Patrolman Gethin Richards in 1918. Photo by Mark J. Price.
In tribute to all Akron police who have fallen in the line of duty:
1917: Guy Norris
1918: Edward J. Costigan
1918: Joseph H. Hunt
1918: Gethin H. Richards
1919: George Werne
1925: Harold Rogers
1929: William H. Grubbs
1930: Harland F. Manes
1931: Forrest Good
1933: Kenneth Knepp
1933: William S. Peterson
1946: Arden D. Weese
1960: Floyd A. Weatherholt Jr.
1964: Ronald D. Rotruck
1965: Eugene Hooper
1968: Robert E. Donahue
1970: Glenn K. Stewart
1972: Stephen J. Ondas
1975: Gary A. Yost
1993: Harold L. Wintrow
1994: George R. Knaff
2012: Frank D. Mancini
2013: Jonathan R. Long
2014: Justin R. Winebrenner
Never forget. May there never be another name added to the list.
SOURCES
Books
Avery, Elroy McKendree. A History of Cleveland and Its Environs. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918.
Buie, Lieutenant James C., and Captain John T. Cunningham. History of the Akron, Ohio, Police Department, 1898–1995. Akron, OH: Akron Police Department, 2003.
Burch Directory Company. Akron City Directory. Akron, OH: Commercial Printing Company, various years.
Doyle, William B. Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company, 1908.
Fiaschetti, Michael. You Gotta Be Rough. Garden City, NY: Crime Club Inc., 1930.
Grismer, Karl H. Akron and Summit County. Akron, OH: Summit County Historical Society, 1952.
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State. Columbus, OH: Henry Howe & Son, 1891.
Knepper, George W. Akron: City at the Summit. Akron, OH: Summit County Historical Society, 1981.
Lane, Samuel Alonson. Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County. Akron, OH: Beacon Job Department, 1887.
Love, Steve, and David Giffels. Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1998.
Olin, Oscar Eugene. Akron and Environs: Historical, Biographical, Genealogical. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1917.
Olin, Oscar Eugene, and A.E. Allen. A Centennial History of Akron, 1825–1925. Akron, OH: Summit County Historical Society, 1925.
Veronesi, Gene P. Italian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Press, 1971.
Periodicals
Akron Beacon Journal.
Akron Evening Times.
Akron Press.
Akron Times Democrat.
Akron Times-Press.
Canton Daily News.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
India Rubber World.
Journal of the Cleveland Bar Association.
Liberty Magazine.
Mansfield News.
Massillon Evening Independent.
McClure’s Magazine.
National Police Journal.
The Outlook.
10 True Crime Cases.
Useful Websites
Akronlibrary.org.
Books.google.com.
Familysearch.org.
Findagrave.com.
Heritagepursuit.com.
News.google.com/newspapers.
Newspaperarchive.com.
Newspapers.com.
ODMP.org.
Ohio.com.
Ohiohistorycentral.org.
Ohiohistory.org.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo by Bob DeMay
Mark J. Price is an award-winning journalist from Akron, Ohio. A 1981 graduate of Akron North High School, he earned his journalism degree from Kent State University in 1985. He has worked as a copy editor and staff writer for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1997. Before that, he worked as a copy editor, columnist and features editor at the Canton Repository. He is the author of The Rest Is History: True Tales from Akron’s Vibrant Past (University of Akron Press, 2012) and Lost Akron (The History Press, 2015). He and his wife, Susan, live in Hinckley, Ohio, with their puppy girl, Cinders, and bunny girl, Katie.
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