See also
Name: | Frederick Clarence EDGELLER1 |
Sex: | Male |
Nickname: | The Whistling Bandit |
Father: | Frederick Henry EDGELLER (1869?-1907) |
Mother: | Rebecca Ann DELBRIDGE (1875-1939) |
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 |
Census (1) | Omaha City, Douglas County |
Census (2) | Parker Street |
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
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). |
5 | Fing 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&). |
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