Two or more weeks after Watchman John Davis’s murder in 1846, a paper carrier found the body of Watchman Strawther on Baum Street above the Water Works.  He had been stabbed in the heart.  It was assumed for years that burglars had killed him as he was very good at rooting them out.  But years later, a prisoner in the St. Louis, Missouri jail gave a dying declaration admitting to the murder.  His motive was that Watchman Strawther had sufficient evidence on a Jerry Lowden Lim and his group of counterfeiters to have them convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. 

Almost all of the information for this narrative came from a book published in 1867 and found by Joyce Meyer of the Price Hill Historical Society. All other information about this officer is apparently lost to history. If you have further information, artifacts, or pictures of this officer, please contact the Museum Director at Director@GCPHS.com.