Tuesday, May 11, 1999

Two names added to list at memorial

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BY SUSAN VELA
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Covington Police Capt. Steve Wills stands at attention during the playing of taps Monday. (Patrick Reddy photo) | ZOOM |

        COVINGTON — Northern Kentucky police officers killed in the line of duty, from as far back as 1902, were honored Monday at the police memorial here.

        About 250 police, lawyers, judges and others from the region's criminal justice system attended the fourth annual ceremony, which included a 21-gun salute to the officers who died.

        Relatives of those killed also were at the event, which was held in honor of national Police Week. A similar ceremony will occur Saturday at the National Police Memorial in Washington, D.C.

        Cincinnati also honored its slain officers Monday.

        The police memorial in Covington, at the south end of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, is engraved with the names of Northern Kentucky officers who died in the line of duty. Their names, 31 of them, are engraved on the national memorial as well.

1902 and 1998
        Covington Police Officer Michael A. Partin and Independence Town Marshal Nicholas Hopperton are the most recent additions.

        Their years of fighting crime are separated by more than a lifetime.

        Marshal Hopperton was killed in the line of duty Nov. 8, 1902.

        He had escorted a drunk en and disorderly person to the town limits after a saloon brawl when the other person fatally shot him.

        Mr. Partin, 25, was with the Covington Police force just 15 months when he went to help a fellow officer chase a suspect over the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge in January 1998 and fell into the frigid waters of the Ohio River.

        He plunged into the river after he slipped through a gap between the bridge's roadway and the pedestrian walkway.

        His body remained in the water until May 1998, when it was discovered along the Cincinnati side of the river.

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