Jamestown Police Department plans memorial for officer killed in 1966 crash

Jamestown Police Department plans memorial for officer killed in 1966 crash

JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown Police Department is working on a memorial for an officer who died in the line of duty in 1966. Ronald Trautman was injured on Aug. 3, 1966, after the three-wheeled motorcycle he was driving struck the rear tire of a semitrailer on U.S. Highway 281 south of Jamestown near the interchange for Interstate 94, according to a story in The Jamestown Sun on Aug. 4, 1966. The semitrailer was coming off the east approach to the …