Howard Leslie Quigg (18871980) was an American policeman who was twice the chief of police in
Miami, Florida
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, in the periods 1921-1928 and 1937–1944.
Quigg was a member of the
Ku Klux Klan
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.
In 1928, he and some of his officers were accused of the murder of a Black man in their custody. Quigg was indicted in 1928 after three Miami police officers beat Harry Kier, a Black bellboy, to death for allegedly insulting a white woman at the hotel where he worked. Although he was taken into custody in late March, the criminal charges were dismissed by May because the witness did not testify.
He was succeeded as police chief by
Guy C. Reeve in 1928, and by
Charles O. Nelson in 1944.
[
Quigg died of a stroke in 1980, at the age of 92.]
References
1887 births
1980 deaths
Chiefs of the Miami Police Department
American Ku Klux Klan members
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