Patrolman Aaron C. Laubach, 35, was shot to death on the sub-freezing evening of Thursday, Jan. 27, 1938, in Hamilton. He was in plain clothes in a gasoline station at Grand Boulevard and East Avenue, where he had been assigned because of a series of robberies.
Laubach had just arrived at the station at about 7:15 when a bandit entered. The officer, who was hit by three bullets, fired two shots as the man fled without any money. The shoot-out was witnessed by the station attendant.
John W. Cline, 24, of West Elkton, signed a confession to the shooting Sunday, Feb. 20. He implicated his brother-in-law, Chester Francis, 19, West Elkton, as his driver. Cline admitted to four robberies in Hamilton, two of them at the gas station where Laubach died. Cline was executed in the Ohio electric chair Feb. 1, 1939. Francis pled guilty to first-degree murder, but his life was spared.
Laubach, who left a widow, was the son of Rudy Laubach, a former Butler County sheriff. The Middletown native had joined the Hamilton police department April 5, 1930.
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Patrolman Aaron C. Laubach, 35, forfeited his life early Thursday night in a heroic effort to prevent a second robbery of the Pater Oil Company filling station at East Avenue and Grand Boulevard.
He was killed in an exchange of shots with a lone bandit - believed to be the same man who robbed the station on January 14 and who committed two other robberies since the first of the year.
Six patrolmen who were appointed to the force about the same time as Patrolman Aaron Laubach will act as pallbearers at the funeral Monday afternoon. They are Reginald Stone, Herschel Seward, Crabill Regan, Chester Schick, Adrian Stricker and Aaron Leibrock.
Police Chief J.C. Calhoun also named the following honorary pallbearers: Patrolman William Blair, Ernest Dunivan, Paul Klingler, Charles Nugent, George Van Lieu, Levi Justice, Joseph Koons and Allan Lindsay.
Laubach had just arrived at the station at about 7:15 when a bandit entered. The officer, who was hit by three bullets, fired two shots as the man fled without any money. The shoot-out was witnessed by the station attendant.
John W. Cline, 24, of West Elkton, signed a confession to the shooting Sunday, Feb. 20. He implicated his brother-in-law, Chester Francis, 19, West Elkton, as his driver. Cline admitted to four robberies in Hamilton, two of them at the gas station where Laubach died. Cline was executed in the Ohio electric chair Feb. 1, 1939. Francis pled guilty to first-degree murder, but his life was spared.
Laubach, who left a widow, was the son of Rudy Laubach, a former Butler County sheriff. The Middletown native had joined the Hamilton police department April 5, 1930.
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Patrolman Aaron C. Laubach, 35, forfeited his life early Thursday night in a heroic effort to prevent a second robbery of the Pater Oil Company filling station at East Avenue and Grand Boulevard.
He was killed in an exchange of shots with a lone bandit - believed to be the same man who robbed the station on January 14 and who committed two other robberies since the first of the year.
Six patrolmen who were appointed to the force about the same time as Patrolman Aaron Laubach will act as pallbearers at the funeral Monday afternoon. They are Reginald Stone, Herschel Seward, Crabill Regan, Chester Schick, Adrian Stricker and Aaron Leibrock.
Police Chief J.C. Calhoun also named the following honorary pallbearers: Patrolman William Blair, Ernest Dunivan, Paul Klingler, Charles Nugent, George Van Lieu, Levi Justice, Joseph Koons and Allan Lindsay.
Patrolman Aaron C. Laubach, 35, was shot to death on the sub-freezing evening of Thursday, Jan. 27, 1938, in Hamilton. He was in plain clothes in a gasoline station at Grand Boulevard and East Avenue, where he had been assigned because of a series of robberies.
Laubach had just arrived at the station at about 7:15 when a bandit entered. The officer, who was hit by three bullets, fired two shots as the man fled without any money. The shoot-out was witnessed by the station attendant.
John W. Cline, 24, of West Elkton, signed a confession to the shooting Sunday, Feb. 20. He implicated his brother-in-law, Chester Francis, 19, West Elkton, as his driver. Cline admitted to four robberies in Hamilton, two of them at the gas station where Laubach died. Cline was executed in the Ohio electric chair Feb. 1, 1939. Francis pled guilty to first-degree murder, but his life was spared.
Laubach, who left a widow, was the son of Rudy Laubach, a former Butler County sheriff. The Middletown native had joined the Hamilton police department April 5, 1930.
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Patrolman Aaron C. Laubach, 35, forfeited his life early Thursday night in a heroic effort to prevent a second robbery of the Pater Oil Company filling station at East Avenue and Grand Boulevard.
He was killed in an exchange of shots with a lone bandit - believed to be the same man who robbed the station on January 14 and who committed two other robberies since the first of the year.
Six patrolmen who were appointed to the force about the same time as Patrolman Aaron Laubach will act as pallbearers at the funeral Monday afternoon. They are Reginald Stone, Herschel Seward, Crabill Regan, Chester Schick, Adrian Stricker and Aaron Leibrock.
Police Chief J.C. Calhoun also named the following honorary pallbearers: Patrolman William Blair, Ernest Dunivan, Paul Klingler, Charles Nugent, George Van Lieu, Levi Justice, Joseph Koons and Allan Lindsay.
Laubach had just arrived at the station at about 7:15 when a bandit entered. The officer, who was hit by three bullets, fired two shots as the man fled without any money. The shoot-out was witnessed by the station attendant.
John W. Cline, 24, of West Elkton, signed a confession to the shooting Sunday, Feb. 20. He implicated his brother-in-law, Chester Francis, 19, West Elkton, as his driver. Cline admitted to four robberies in Hamilton, two of them at the gas station where Laubach died. Cline was executed in the Ohio electric chair Feb. 1, 1939. Francis pled guilty to first-degree murder, but his life was spared.
Laubach, who left a widow, was the son of Rudy Laubach, a former Butler County sheriff. The Middletown native had joined the Hamilton police department April 5, 1930.
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Patrolman Aaron C. Laubach, 35, forfeited his life early Thursday night in a heroic effort to prevent a second robbery of the Pater Oil Company filling station at East Avenue and Grand Boulevard.
He was killed in an exchange of shots with a lone bandit - believed to be the same man who robbed the station on January 14 and who committed two other robberies since the first of the year.
Six patrolmen who were appointed to the force about the same time as Patrolman Aaron Laubach will act as pallbearers at the funeral Monday afternoon. They are Reginald Stone, Herschel Seward, Crabill Regan, Chester Schick, Adrian Stricker and Aaron Leibrock.
Police Chief J.C. Calhoun also named the following honorary pallbearers: Patrolman William Blair, Ernest Dunivan, Paul Klingler, Charles Nugent, George Van Lieu, Levi Justice, Joseph Koons and Allan Lindsay.
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