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When Detective Alfred O. Benson was buried at Evergreen Cemetery the entire Los Angeles Police Department attended, and each member of the force left a bouquet of flowers on his grave. Police commissioners Arnold, Bosbyshell, Weldon served as pallbearers and several proclamations were made at his gravesite:
Whereas, on the 11th day of August,1894, our noble brother officer, Detective Alfred O. Benson, was by the hand of death removed from our ranks, we, his fellow-members of the Los Angeles Police Department, on this, his funeral day, as we place our last tribute of flowers upon his bier, consign his earthly remains to the tomb, and speak our last sorrowful good-byes, all feel that the departed one has earned and deserves the kindliest eulogy. Therefore, be it
Resolved, that in the death of Alfred O. Benson the city of Los Angeles has lost one of its most conscientious, vigilant and capable guards, a man of unimpeachable integrity, possessed of high moral and physical courage, gifted with phenominally [sic] accurate powers of observation, and a memory with only forgot 'fatigue' and 'extra hours' when duty called; an ideal wearer of the star of police authority, whose acts were ever free of malice or vindictiveness, who brought criminals to justice often with sorrow and sympathy for them, but realizing that crime must be punished that right may prevail. With one accord we speak these words of commendation: 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'
When Detective Alfred O. Benson was buried at Evergreen Cemetery the entire Los Angeles Police Department attended, and each member of the force left a bouquet of flowers on his grave. Police commissioners Arnold, Bosbyshell, Weldon served as pallbearers and several proclamations were made at his gravesite:
Whereas, on the 11th day of August,1894, our noble brother officer, Detective Alfred O. Benson, was by the hand of death removed from our ranks, we, his fellow-members of the Los Angeles Police Department, on this, his funeral day, as we place our last tribute of flowers upon his bier, consign his earthly remains to the tomb, and speak our last sorrowful good-byes, all feel that the departed one has earned and deserves the kindliest eulogy. Therefore, be it
Resolved, that in the death of Alfred O. Benson the city of Los Angeles has lost one of its most conscientious, vigilant and capable guards, a man of unimpeachable integrity, possessed of high moral and physical courage, gifted with phenominally [sic] accurate powers of observation, and a memory with only forgot 'fatigue' and 'extra hours' when duty called; an ideal wearer of the star of police authority, whose acts were ever free of malice or vindictiveness, who brought criminals to justice often with sorrow and sympathy for them, but realizing that crime must be punished that right may prevail. With one accord we speak these words of commendation: 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'
From www.lahistoryarchive.org
When Detective Alfred O. Benson was buried at Evergreen Cemetery the entire Los Angeles Police Department attended, and each member of the force left a bouquet of flowers on his grave. Police commissioners Arnold, Bosbyshell, Weldon served as pallbearers and several proclamations were made at his gravesite:
Whereas, on the 11th day of August,1894, our noble brother officer, Detective Alfred O. Benson, was by the hand of death removed from our ranks, we, his fellow-members of the Los Angeles Police Department, on this, his funeral day, as we place our last tribute of flowers upon his bier, consign his earthly remains to the tomb, and speak our last sorrowful good-byes, all feel that the departed one has earned and deserves the kindliest eulogy. Therefore, be it
Resolved, that in the death of Alfred O. Benson the city of Los Angeles has lost one of its most conscientious, vigilant and capable guards, a man of unimpeachable integrity, possessed of high moral and physical courage, gifted with phenominally [sic] accurate powers of observation, and a memory with only forgot 'fatigue' and 'extra hours' when duty called; an ideal wearer of the star of police authority, whose acts were ever free of malice or vindictiveness, who brought criminals to justice often with sorrow and sympathy for them, but realizing that crime must be punished that right may prevail. With one accord we speak these words of commendation: 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'
When Detective Alfred O. Benson was buried at Evergreen Cemetery the entire Los Angeles Police Department attended, and each member of the force left a bouquet of flowers on his grave. Police commissioners Arnold, Bosbyshell, Weldon served as pallbearers and several proclamations were made at his gravesite:
Whereas, on the 11th day of August,1894, our noble brother officer, Detective Alfred O. Benson, was by the hand of death removed from our ranks, we, his fellow-members of the Los Angeles Police Department, on this, his funeral day, as we place our last tribute of flowers upon his bier, consign his earthly remains to the tomb, and speak our last sorrowful good-byes, all feel that the departed one has earned and deserves the kindliest eulogy. Therefore, be it
Resolved, that in the death of Alfred O. Benson the city of Los Angeles has lost one of its most conscientious, vigilant and capable guards, a man of unimpeachable integrity, possessed of high moral and physical courage, gifted with phenominally [sic] accurate powers of observation, and a memory with only forgot 'fatigue' and 'extra hours' when duty called; an ideal wearer of the star of police authority, whose acts were ever free of malice or vindictiveness, who brought criminals to justice often with sorrow and sympathy for them, but realizing that crime must be punished that right may prevail. With one accord we speak these words of commendation: 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'
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