Memorial Services Held

Memorial Services Held

For Three Stale Police

In special exercises at State ■Police Headquarters, Route 60, Richmond, Friday afternoon, Hay 5, three canvases were presented in memory of three State Troopers , who gave their lives in the line of duty.

Judge J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General of Virginia, accepted the portraits'for the State and • appointed Colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr., Superintendent of State Police, as custodian.

During the exercises it was emphasized that every citizen of the State is urged to visit the Memorial Art Gallery at Virginia State Police Headquarters, second floor. The group of 15 canvases, 14 portraits, and one symbolic canvas, represents the only memorial of its kind in the United States. Virginia is the first state to thus recognize these Inspectors add State Troopers who have given their lives in the line of duty.

All the portraits are the work of Virginia artists. The portrait of Trooper Charles B. Bullock, killed in line of duty near Fairfax in 1354, is the work of Elizabeth Nottingham Day, daughter of Mr. , and Mrs. E. J. Nottingham, Jr., of Culpeper, at present with the art department of Mary Baldwin college.

Twelve of the portraits had been accepted- by the State at a previous service, and the three presented Friday were portraits of Sergeant Clarence L e m u e 1 Maynard, andi Inspector Phillip C. Via, and a symbolic canvas for Inspector W. Neville Hatcher.

The symbolic csmus of Inspector Hatcher serves in place of a portrait, for no picture of Mm could be located. The canvas shows a shield, bearing the inscription "Imago Eius -Nobis Non Eat Sed Memoria Numquam Peribit," and beneath the shield is the Inspector's hat and badge and his Sam Browne belt.

Inspector Hatcher was the first officer to be killed "in the line of duty” in the Department's history.

W. Neville Hatcher eras born ^ in Fauquier county. May 1, 1962 and was employed as an Inspector 5 for the Virginia Highway Patrol, antecedent of the Department of State Police, on June 18, 1928. He died in University of Virginia Hospital August 19, 1928, as a result of gun "Shot wounds received while in line of duty August 15, 1928. On that morning Inspector Hatcher was called in on the ease of Henry 8heppard, wanted for the murder of a Negro woman in 1927, and who had so far escaped capture. Sheppard was believed to be attending a Negro gathering at ML Zion church near Alanthus, Gulgeper county, and Inspectof /Hatcher was the only hi nffinsvibf the State Highway Pin trol who knew this criminal by

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