True and Fascinating Canadian History
Holy Cross Cemetery
Lackawanna. New York. USA
In Memory of:
Honour Roll # 55
Reg.#6352, RCMP Corporal
Michael Moriarty
Corporal Michael Moriarty was shot and killed by David Knox, a farmer at Rosebud District, Alberta, while attempting to serve a summons. Later that same day, Knox committed suicide.
'...Cpl. Moriarty was an unmarried man who had no relatives in North America, except a brother in Buffalo, New York. This brother asked that the Corporal's body be shipped there by train and made arrangements to have Cpl. Moriarty buried in the presence of a trumpeter and a firing party at Holy Cross Cemetery in Lackawanna , N. Y.' (p.166.)
Source. Knuckle, Robert. In the Line of Duty. The Honour Roll of the RCMP since 1873. General Stone Publishing House. Burnstown, ON. 1994.
