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Show 1 OFFICIAL WHO BEAT POLICE STRIKE DIES bost.". March -Police 22, iniMRloner Edwin I ptoi Curtli who was generallv re.Jite.l ith having fought the police utrlk. ..f geptem- bcr. 1919, to a fuccf ul finish, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at his " home here He had neon In poor ' health for some time, but was at hli office thla forenoon ha Commissioner Curtis, s graduate or Bowdoin college, a member of the Massachusetts har and a former lL mavor, was appointed ' in I ic-i tub- tfl 1918, to succeed Stephen O'Meara, VH who died In office When the polb u strike fame, nearly 'ear Inter Hfi Commissioner Curtis immediately notified the striking patrolmen that K? they would not be reinstated. BR In telling Governor Cooiidge, now E vice president, that ho Intended to HE har the strikers from further ser- HE vice, It wan said that the com m K - SB sloner also gave notice that he wanl- iB ed the support of the oiuinonweult li K or was ready tu resign. Governor SKKmi Coolldge's famou9 ' law and order" Ssyfc statement was subsequent!) made. HHV E Mr Curtis was horn In Boston on March 26. 1861. |