Polk County in Iowa

Des Moines in Polk County

Thomas Callahan

Homicide

Thomas Callahan
66 YOA
Des Moines, IA
Polk County
June 25, 1904

By Nancy Bowers

Thomas Callahan, a 66-year-old bachelor shoe cobbler was brutally stabbed and his throat cut while he slept in his rooms near the west approach to the South Fifth Street Bridge over the Raccoon River. He was robbed of an unknown amount of money.

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