William was born about 1868. William Scobee ... [1]
No more info is currently available for William Scobee. Can you add to his biography? His 1st wife was Mary Ann Lipp, and 2nd, he married Ethel Nellie Fouts Claver, who survived him.
He was a Kansas City, MO police officer, killed in the line of duty. In 1920, his wife was running a boarding house in St. Joseph, MO while he was working in Kansas City. He was killed while on duty by 3 Italian robbers who were trying to steal chickens. His name is engraved on the statue of a policeman holding a child at the KCPD. His fellow officers took up a collection and gave Ethel a few hundred dollars. She never remarried and ended up in the state hospital where she died of pneumonia.
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