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End of Watch - March 19, 1906
Sergeant Frederick H. Booth
At 7:00 a.m., March 19, 1906, Sergeant Frederick H. Booth was shot and killed while attempting to arrest one John Blake, 28, outside a boarding house on Page Avenue. John Blake was one of three men wanted for robbing the Brooklyn Post Office.
John Blake and Jack Hamilton were able to elude capture at the scene of the shooting. However, the third man, John Walpole, 28, was arrested at the scene and was taken to jail. After many hours and the largest manhunt of the time, John Blake and Jack Hamilton were arrested at a farm two and one-half miles west of the city
along the Michigan Central Railroad Line. All three were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
