Andrew L. Schlechtweig

Officer

Stamford

End of Watch: 5/26/1938

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Officer Schlechtweg was on duty riding his department motorcycle when a car struck him. He died, without ever regaining consciousness, due to a compound fracture of the skull.

Officer Andrew Schlechtweg was on duty riding his department motorcycle on East Main Street when a car struck him. After sliding 46 feet across the Post Road, he was taken by “police ambulance” to Stamford Hospital. He died, without ever regaining consciousness, due to a compound fracture of the skull.