Lowther

The State Police Association of Massachusetts

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September 20, 1924

Upon graduation with the 4^th Recruit Training Troop on December 18^th, 1922, Llewllyn A. Lowther was assigned to Troop B in Northampton. He was one of the first troopers ever assigned to participate in refresher training, later known as "in service training". Shortly after this training, Trooper Lowther became the first uniformed State Police Officer to lose his life in the line of duty. On September 20, 1924, Trooper Lowther, while on patrol in the town of Adams, lost control of his motorcycle on a particularly bad stretch of road, and was killed. He was the first of many to suffer either serious injury or death by virtue of the then primary mode of transportation for the State Police, the motorcycle.

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