Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-08-15 | Page 2 | Killed by Automobile

S:dr;r.thcf Harris Liads-Icj, Liads-Icj, Third Deputy Po-lice Po-lice Commissioner. NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Harris Llnds-ley, Llnds-ley, who met death In an automobile accident at Bennington, Vt., yesterday, was appointed third deputy police commissioner com-missioner by Commissioner McAdoo on April 11, 1904, to Bucceed John "P. Cowan, Cow-an, resigned. His principal duties were, to try delinquent policemen and to have charge of the purchase of supplies for the department. Mr. Lindsley was 35 years old. He came of old New England stock on his father's side, and his mother is a member mem-ber of the well-known Harris family of Tennessee. Ills grandfather was T. George Harris, a pay. director of the United States navy. Young Lindsley spent his boyhood In Nashville and prepared for college in the Princeton Preparatory school. He entered Princeton university in 1893 and at the nd of two years entered Columbia Colum-bia Law school. After graduation he entered the employ of a law firm. During- the Spanish-American war he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Sixth United States volunteers and served as judge advocate of a general courtxnartlal. At the close of the war Mr. Lindsley came to' New York and entered a law office, from which he was taken by Commissioner McAdoo. Mr. Lindsley was within a few days elected Captain of company A, Twelfth regiment, regi-ment, N. O. N. Y. , - Mr. Llndsley'a record In the Police department de-partment was a good one. His engagement engage-ment to Miss Evelyn P. Willing; of Chicago waa announced on July L -