City cop who survived wild gun battle

City cop who survived wild gun battle

Const. William Caul, one of four members of the Cornwall Police Department working the day shift on Aug. 31, 1927, cheated death in a wild shoot-out with two suspected car thieves. While questioning two men sitting in the suspected stolen car parked on Sydney between First and Second, one of the men pulled out a revolver and shot Caul in the face. A second shot, as Caul fell back, missed. As the men sped off, Caul, wounded and lying on the road,…