Francis Oliver "Frank" Haddock (November 14, 1892 - February 3, 1934) was an American police officer who, together with fellow patrol Forbes McLeod (January 1, 1898 - February 2, 1934), was killed while on duty in response to bank robbery. They were the first two officers in the history of the state of Massachusetts who were killed by an attacker using a sub-machine gun, and the crime attracted attention throughout the northeastern United States. Their sacrifice is commemorated by the city of Needham, Massachusetts through Haddock-McLeod Plaza.
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Life
Haddock was born in Newton, Massachusetts, son of William Oliver Haddock (May 12, 1861 - February 7, 1903) and Elizabeth Helen McAdams (March, 1864 - April 22, 1901). His oldest two siblings died in infancy, and he and his older brother Joseph Ernest "Joe" Haddock (February 15, 1891 - January 17, 1954) and Mary Florence's sister "Mae" Haddock (May 30, 1894 - April 16, 1965) an orphan on Ellen's death in 1901. William has fled from Newton for an unknown reason to Chicago around 1899.
Children are sent to different homes; Mae to her first cousin (twice removed) by her mother Francis Alonso McAdams and his wife Ellen (Slattery), Frank goes to Mary J. (O'Brien) Kingsbury, and Joe to a local farmer. Apparently, the conditions at the farm were so bad, because Frank used to visit Joe, find him hungry, and would sneak back at night with food for him. Kingsbury, the elderly widow of Amasa Kingsbury (whose family is a prominent early resident and Needham resident) living on a farm at Greendale Avenue later on the outskirts of town, warned the authorities and Joe to go to live with McAdams.
Haddock enrolled in the Army in June 1917 and spent the rest of World War I driving an ambulance at Camp Upton, NY, first-class sergeant class. He met and later married on April 24, 1919, Helen Frances "Nell" Callanan (October 18, 1893 - October 27, 1979), at Newton. They settled in Needham, and in 1920 he became one of the first full-time officers hired by Needham. There, they raised four girls, Mary Florence Haddock (March 21, 1920 - June 2, 1987), Helen Veronica Haddock (March 31, 1923 - March 17, 2009), Dorothy Frances Haddock (August 13, 1924 - June 12, 1993), and Phyllis Teresa Haddock (September 1, 1926 - March 9, 2007).
Haddock is a popular member of that power and is primarily concerned with children, even when he is stubborn with naughty children, and families, given the background of his formative years. He would invite them to eat with the family during the Depression years, and until his death co-ordinates the junior crossing program for the schools. He enjoys close family relationships by his wife's side and especially holidays; At Christmas, she will decorate the house and yard with luxury on 4 River Park Drive (now part of the intersection on Massachusetts Route 128, with a house that has been moved nearby and still owned by the family). He also likes gardening and usually has flower beds that thrive in addition to vegetables during the warmer months. He greatly appreciated the bulbs and plants brought back from the flower show across the country by one of the leading knockouts and well-known manufacturers of Needham, William Carter.
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Death
At 9:30 am on February 2, 1934, Needham Trust Company was robbed by trio of Murton Millen, Irving Millen, and Abraham Faber. Before they left the bank, McLeod was shot dead three times, at close range, with Murton Millen likely triggerman. The bandits take the two hostages they place on the boardwalking their car facing the street and keep going. The police on duty Sergeant. Howard Mills saw them go, lowered the description of the car and its direction, and called the police station at 9:34.
This is the direction of Needham Heights, which then (since being destroyed) has a fire station that is part of Haddock's beats. He happened to have sympathy with firefighters who were in charge after the guard duty crossed when a call came from the fire department about a robbery at 9:45 am. Informed, Haddock went to the front of the station, the gun was withdrawn, only to hold the shot as one hostage (the other had jumped to a safe beforehand) remained on the board running. The machine-gun rifle comes from the car, hitting Haddock three times with two mortal wounds. Bantu to a truck and taken to the Glover Memorial Hospital, he died there early the next day.
Legacy
The city was struck by the event. His office closes on February 5 for McLeod's funeral, and February 6 for Haddock and hundreds of people show up in the cold weather with snow on the ground. The second day of parade officers escort coffins through the city in funeral processions. At that time there was no official retirement plan for the officers, but the Needham Residents Committee paid $ 50 a month for the Haddock family that would last for the rest of his wife's life; he never remarried. The incident also prompted municipalities lacking money to buy more equipment for the department and to hire more officers.
In 2001, the city decided to rename the plaza in front of the police headquarters after two officers were killed. A ceremony on May 15, attended by two of Helen Sadow's daughter and surviving Phyllis Murphy and by other relatives, devoted a plaque to her honor. For years before and continuing since then, pencil drawings of officers have been hanging on the station itself.
In 2009 on the 75th anniversary of the event, along with the Needham Historical Society, a warning for officers stationed at the site, the plaque has disappeared. Of the children of Haddock only Helen Sadow, who will live only six weeks more, remain alive but too ill to travel, but his grandson Brian Barnicle (Mary's granddaughter) attends with his wife Crystale and two children, Sahsha and James.
Within days of the crime, Faber was arrested, followed by the wife of Millens and Murton Millen, Norma, who had been waiting in the vacation car. A trial quickly followed their stand on the murder of McLeod and on June 7, 1935, brothers Millen and Faber were executed. Norm Millen was convicted of being a criminal and sentenced to one year in prison.
Robbery and the tail was shown as "The Millen-Faber Case" in Issue # 24 of True Crime Comics, published in November, 1942. A documentary on crime by Risner Productions appeared on the local site. The public access channel Needham with an early public show of the film has taken place February 16, 2013, at Needham Town Hall. In 2015, Nathan Gorenstein (associated with Millens) publishes the most complete accounting for the crime date, titled Tommy Gun Winter .
Haddock has a memorial inscription (panel 62, W-10) as part of the Law Enforcement Law Enforcement National Warning in Washington, DC.
Haddock's grandson, Michael Murphy, serves as a Police Sergeant in Addison, Texas. Haddock's grandson, Monica Pratt, is a magazine and writer editor in Redlands, California. Another grandson is a political scientist and opinion columnist Jeffrey Sadow. He was first cousin removed three times from educator, author, and diplomat Charles Brickett Haddock, a fourth cousin after being removed from lawyer and diplomat William McCormick Blair, Jr., fourth cousin of art dealer and writer Carroll Chevalier Carstairs, his eighth cousin after being removed former Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney, eighth cousin twice removed from former US President George Herbert Walker Bush, and eighth cousin three times removed from former US President George Walker Bush.
With Haddock's death, this ended a series of three generations of Haddocks with the first or middle name "Oliver" who died prematurely; his father died of pneumonia, and his grandfather Oliver James Haddock (2 November 1837 - 2 July 1871), was expelled from the Army for injuries suffered during the Civil War, died of consumption.
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