JRD CACHE Multi-Cache
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This Cache is in honor of Cornwall's only police officer to be killed in the line of duty, Constable John Robert Davey.
this little snippet was taken from the cornwall police website www.cornwallpolice.ca
On September 6th, 1892 while attempting to arrest an armed drifter, Special Constable John Davey was shot in the chest at point blank range. John Davey was on foot patrol at the Grand Trunk Railway yards in Cornwall, Ontario. The Circus was in town. Also in town was a former resident turned highwayman James Slavin, who was out to extract revenge on anyone who got in his way; shortly before noon he found a few willing combatants in two local toughs, John "Black Diamond" Roach and Antoine Lafess. Two shots rang out, Roach and Lafess were wounded, the crowd screamed and Constable Davey, along with a Good Samaritan Louis Lafave ran to investigate. Davey intercepted the fleeing shooter knocking him down. Lafave grabbed the drifter from behind and was shot in the shoulder. As Constable John Davey pounced to control the shooter, he was fatally shot dying within seconds.
Postscript:
John Robert Davey was born in Cornwall on April 27th of 1845. He was the son of Barnard and Catherine and had 8 siblings. He was a Captain in the 59th Stormont Dundas Militia Unit and a Major in the Militia Band. John owned and operated his own Leather and Harness shop across the road from the police station. He was 47 years of age, married with three children Charles, James and Frank. He had been sworn in as a Constable with the Cornwall Police in August of 1892.
The Cornwall Community Police Service honoured the service of our fallen comrade, John Robert Davey and held several events to help the family and our officers Honour this valiant Constable who gave his life on his very first day as a member of our Service.
We would like to give credit to Thom Racine, the author of the book...John Robert Davey A Future Lost for telling his story.
At the coordinates posted, there is a memorial sign. you need to get the following information from it.
way point #1
A = DR the 4th letter in his last name
B= DR the only letter that appears 3 times in blue written in lower case letters
C= DR the word representing what he has between his nose and lips
D= DR the 3rd letter of his first name
E = The number of letters in his middle name
F = The number of letters in his first name
WP 2 is at 45 01.ABC 74 44.DEF
At WP2 solve the following:
G = the last digit of his year of birh
H = the day (#) he died
I = 1st digit of his year of birth
J = 2nd digit of his year of birth
K = the last digit of his year of death
L = the last digit of his year of birth
The final is located at 45 01.GHI 74 44.JKL
co-owner of the cache is bugbitten, so if any issues please contact either one of us and we will try our best to fix anything that needs to be fixed.
cache container is replaced and about 1 meter from were it was originally
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