BOSTON — Policing has changed drastically over the last century, but one thing has stayed the same: Boston Police always remember the men and women who have died while serving the city.
Police on Friday remembered Patrolman Thomas Edmond Young, who died on Jan. 10, 1912 from complications from an injury he suffered while responding to an emergency call. He was 32.
A few months later, in April of that year, the world would mourn the loss of hundreds of passengers who died when the Titanic sank southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Young served with the Boston Police Department for 12 years, assigned to the Roxbury Station, police said. He was appointed to the force in 1900.
Police noted Young’s bravery as a patrolman at another time in his career, when he nabbed the rape suspect who shot and killed Boston Police Sgt. Frederick Schlehuberwhile the sergeant questioned the man in the District Attorney’s Office in what is …