Minnesota  Law-Enforcement Memorial Association 

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Officer Henry Kaepernick Faribault Police Department Died - October 3, 1876

On October 3, 1876 several guards had been posted to guard the Younger brothers who had earlier been apprehended near Madelia, MN and were brought to the Faribault city jail to stand trial for the attempted bank robbery in Northfield.  Law Enforcement officials suspected that the Jesse James gang would attempt to break the Younger brothers out of the city jail and had stepped up security.  The guards were told to be alert for the James gang and that there was a high probability that the James gang would use some sort of trickery to get the brothers out of jail.  Apparently unaware of this, Officer Kaepernick was approaching the city jail, which was located next to the current city hall, when a guard ordered him to stop.  Officer Kaepernick told the guard that he was a police officer and opened his jacket to show his badge.  The guard thinking Kaepernick was going for a gun, fired one shot striking Kaepernick in the heart killing him instantly.  Officer Kaepernick was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery.

Faribault police department is going to host a memorial service on October 3, 2006 which is the 130^th anniversary of Officer Kaepernick’s death.

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