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Montco PD Remembers Officer Killed By Burglar 73 Years Later
Officer Thomas Mathews of the Abington Township Police Department was gunned down while trying to arrest a burglar back in 1949.

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Officer Thomas Mathews of the Abington Township Police Department was gunned down while trying to arrest a burglar back in 1949.

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