End of watch September 9, 1930.

Officer Edgar J. Combs was near the end of his shift patrolling at midnight along the Famoso Highway north of Bakersfield, when the front tire of his motorcycle blew out as he was crossing railroad tracks. The motorcycle turned over and the 33-year-old patrolman was hurled 70 feet and killed instantly.

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