See also

Frederick Clarence EDGELLER (1902-1926)

Name: Frederick Clarence EDGELLER1
Sex: Male
Nickname: The Whistling Bandit
Father: Frederick Henry EDGELLER (1869?-1907)
Mother: Rebecca Ann DELBRIDGE (1875-1939)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 14 Apr 1902 , Missouri, USA2,3
Census (1) 15 Apr 1910 (age 8) Omaha, Nebraska, USA2
Census (2) 1 Jan 1920 (age 18 (!)) Omaha, Nebraska, USA4
Occupation 1 Jan 1920 (age 17) none; Omaha, Nebraska, USA4
Death 26 Jan 1926 (age 23) San Francisco, California, USA1,5

Additional Information

Census (1) Omaha City, Douglas County
Census (2) Parker Street

Individual Note (shared)

Fred Clarence Edgeller, alias Edward C. Hazen, alias Clarence Watson. Shot and killed by Police Officer T. Herring, January 27, 1926, at 2nd & Howard Streets, about 7:10 P.M. Edgeller was known as "The Whistling Bandit", as he would walk up to oil stations, whistling, before holding up the attendant. He had held up several oil stations in this city before he was shot. He gave his name before he died as Clarence Watson. After being finger-printed at Coroner's Office, he was identified at Police Bureau of Identification as Fred C. Edgeller, which is his true name, having served time in the Industrial School, for running away from home at Kearny, Nebraska. Since that time, he had been arrested several times in California of burglarizing box cars, and at Omaha, Nebraska, for auto theft.

 

Unit ID: :174a

 

Ref: Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936

Volume 21

Group 17

 

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9t1nb9rj/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere

 

The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

 

Details of internment at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Omaha Nebraska

 

Last Name: Edgeller

First Name: Fred

Middle Name: C

DateofInterment: 1/27/1926

Section: 9

Lot# : 94

Grave#: 0

 

REF:

http://www.forestlawnomaha.com/GraveIndex/IndexSummaryE.html

Sources

1"Edgeller Frederick Clarence (b.1902) - California Police Records". Text From Source: Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936

Fred Clarence Edgeller, alias Edward C. Hazen, alias Clarence Watson. Shot and killed by Police Officer T. Herring, January 27, 1926, at 2nd & Howard Streets, about 7:10 P.M. Edgeller was known as "The Whistling Bandit", as he would walk up to oil stations, whistling, before holding up the attendant. He had held up several oil stations in this city before he was shot. He gave his name before he died as Clarence Watson. After being finger-printed at Coroner's Office, he was identified at Police Bureau of Identification as Fred C. Edgeller, which is his true name, having served time in the Industrial School, for running away from home at Kearny, Nebraska. Since that time, he had been arrested several times in California of burglarizing box cars, and at Omaha, Nebraska, for auto theft.
2"Census 1910 Omaha, Nebraska, USA 21/45 Sheet 24B (Ruth Edgeller)".
3"George F Edgeller's notes & letters (3)".
4"Census 1920 Omaha, Nebraska, USA 2/25/ward2/Precinct14 (Stewart Moyer (b.1878))" (2/25/ward2/Precinct14).
5Fing A Grave - NebrasKa, USA, "Edgeller Frederick Clarence (b.1902) - Death Record" (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ED&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=31&GScntry=4&GSsr=521&GRid=91646639&).