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Thomas P. Mode 
Assistant City Marshal
End of Watch: July 11, 1883 |
| Assistant City Marshal Thomas Mode was kill on Monday night, July 11th,
1883 when he was called to drunk cowboys disturbing at the Mansion House,
a local brothel. Modes killer, 25 year old Howard H. Doughty, escaped to
Mexico but was subsequently captured. Doughty and a friend had arrived from
Chihuahua and joined several others in “an uproarious debauch”.
Drunkenness, lust, profanity, and violence led to the murder of Officer
Mode. A reward for Doughty’s capture was printed in the El Paso Herald
and stated that Doughty “was seen in Paso del Norte, Mexico, with
his mustacios shaved off, his hair clipped closely, dressed in a pair of
light jeans pants, with a buckskin jacket, cut after Mexican fashion, …”
Thomas Mode was the first El Paso Police Officer to die in the line of duty.
Source: El Paso Herald |
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