copyright the Chronicle September 27, 2017
by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT — On September 26, 1917, Newport’s first uniformed police officer, Joseph P. Manogue, was called to the Newport House to help immigration officers deal with a recalcitrant suspect.
Patrolman Manogue went to the hotel, which was on the site occupied today by People’s United Bank.
Things went badly wrong.
There was gunplay, and in its aftermath Patrolman Manogue lay dying and another officer was hit by two bullets.
Patrolman Manogue was the first and, thankfully, the only Newport officer to die in the line of duty.
Exactly 100 years later, Newport City’s present Police Chief Seth DiSanto welcomed two of Patrolman Manogue’s great-grandchildren to Newport at a ceremony that commemorated their forebear’s sacrifice.
Governor Phil Scott and representatives of the U.S. Border Patrol, Vermont State Police, and Orleans County Sheriff’s Department also paid tribute to the fallen officer.
The proceedings got off to a solemn start as the Border Patrol honor squad brought the American flag and that of their agency to the stage as a piper played “The Minstrel Boy.”
Two North Country Union High School students, Luke Treadwell and Briar LaRose, then performed an a cappella version of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
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