Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-18
RICHMOND POLICE CHIEF
DIES At HIS RESIDENCE
Ma jor Louis Werner Passes Away
at His Homo After Brief
Illness.
WELL.kNOWN PEACE OFFICER
Had Been 1T Head Of Local Police
department Since April y. 1909.
No Arrangements for Funeral
Have as Yet Been Completed.
PEACE OFFICER

Major Louis Werner, Chief of Police.
died at his homo, .ol5 Stuart Avenue.
-, $50 o'clocit last night The chic:
Mod been III only :. week when Goath
coro from Il complication OF hear:
trouble ana congestion of the lum-s.
HIS condition from day 70 day since
his Grst attach on the night OF Janu.
cry . seemed TO indicate that he would
slowly ccrvai-scc, and death was 4
srca, shock when it was announced
last night.
OF German pa-oatasc, Mr.. Werner
W.s born in New York City july il.
1855 aud wle At the time of h:s death
IN his sl7ty-thIrl scar. Ills carly
Youth was spent N New York. City.
apd when oichiccn he came 20 Rich
mond. i!o liad relatives in this city.
AMI following his arrival here engaged
IN hi trade as nain.er. He entered
,hr service Q: the city AS patrolinau
IN the Police Department: on October.
l. lfsS. and served faithfully aGd ct-
0c!.nti! in that capacity in tho First
Police Precinct FOR sixteen wears 4.
%u officer l,c ,ra3 engaged both as a
''riformo1 ~s1 ai.d As = nl4in. .clotrc.
d"tc",'y'. a.d, on Iu'v g i'o: wa.
~lata 81 .-recrrr az ,hc l''iet riet-i,,r.
''rouotion ra- m.Ic upon his rc ,or,,
81 pair"lrtan
N'rutNrl:D CuIi:r or
roLICt ~ Sri,IL, ,ar:.
wns but 'it-jc NOR, ;h.u =; year
,I-t &c ,iiilcL this dat. rsru h.
=. "Hn"in'cd C;,ict o. Police h. tic
tiohr! OF ro'icc Commissioners. trrii
CO.. p0 ;hn 18Th ot'thc same month,
Ia t"uN ~ the cU;ics Of that Office.
II" WIS sUcces eivci% rcaFpoin:cd -,
chief m 1905, iaii and loi; by the 20.
iiec Iom11issinncrs ana in May. 1917.
Ia, appointment Was made by Mayor
.A;us,.r
ruriHs tlIc twelve years which Ma
ior Wcrncr itiled tho place a, the head
OF the Fci;ca Department changes were
made bringing the police ;.ryice of
Ei:hmond up TO :hc Ytandard o! other
cities the samc size throu-lou, ~.
United States. /; was during thia ;.u.c
that motor vehiclcs were introduced
as = par. or the .Scrvicc. md that mo
torcy:.cs. Bicycles. mounted men and
complete trafiic *cr"ire were installed d
* par; Of tic police system. Iryc=-
'iSations wcrc made from time 10 tim.
y" !jor Werner OF tho methods :,
y'cie l" larger cities. and in ,nsr-.
cases Innovations We're made hero in
advance of municipalities having ..
much Larger regulation. ~ ,hi. con
no"tion j: Is nciah'c that 'Iichrron.,
WaT the second city N tho ;-n;;,d
states TO adout motorcycles patrols.
SAW ACTIVE SERVICE
As POLICE .T,TROLMAN
As i'".Toi'Han. Mir. Werner saw scr
f'cH III the section o. the citJ in the
vicinity OF Seventeenth street, at that
'!h'n KNOWN as one OF the hardest ma :
t'o's @" inc ioTcc. IN maxim. tho rro.
motion TO sergeant and tho appoint
hl'Ht as mead OF tho department., tho
"'i'ca board took into consideration
'"H service OF i'atrolman Werner. He
assisted during his carly career AS =
police officer in the apprehension of
many criminals Of local note in his
district and elsewhere.
W hon his death was announced at
headquarters last night cxprcasious OF
s'lcefc regret were heard on every
SIDE, not only from tho men higher IN
who had associated with him daily.
hut from every district where the mes
sage was sent tile rcclins OF sadness
a the news was manifest. Each of
tho station houses has been drapcd in
mourning, aud Grape hung upon tho
door of the chiefs Office at hcaduuar
tcrS. Police officials called at the home
last night and rendered their sympa i.
thy and assistance TO tho family OF
Major Werner.
lIo is survived by his wife, who was
Miss Mary liasscll OF Richmond The
following children also survive him:
Mrs. r. n. Hines. Of Pocatc1lo. Idaho;
r. RI. Werner. Louise Werner, Mrs L.
j. NcnabIc. Mrs. T. M. Charles Mrs w.
Continued on Fourth Pa.e)