Carl J. Bickett
Agency: Kansas City Police Department, MO
Officer Carl J. Bickett served with the Kansas City Police Department for 6 years. He was born in 1883.
On July 19, 1921, Officer Carl J. Bickett, in plainclothes, was attempting a raid on a room in the Arcadia hotel at 322 W. 12th Street, when the man he was questioning ran away. Officer Bickett chased the man into an alley between Central Street and Broadway, where a gunfight occurred. The assailant escaped, and Officer Bickett was fatally wounded. Officer Bickett was discovered lying in front of the La Casa Hotel (325 West 11th Street), with his gun in his right hand and his police star in his left. A suspect, John D. Murray, was later arrested as a suspect for the murder and held for tampering with motor vehicle.
Officer Bickett was 39 when he passed. He was the son-in-law of Officer Thomas J. Wilson who was also killed in the line of duty in 1923.
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