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Constable Thomas Stoneman He was a detective from the Ottawa Police Force.
1940
Ottawa, Ontario

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The detective

Constable Thomas Stoneman (1908 – 1945), an Ottawa Police detective, investigated Dent's murder and the shooting of Miki. He was the first policeman to arrive at Spears' bush just after the shoot-out between Stringer and Miki. Stoneman supervised the inquest that began at Forrester's Hall in Navan the day of the killings.

Constable Stoneman was shot and killed October 1945 while investigating a robbery at the Canadian War Museum. He was responding with other officers to a report of three suspicious men who had stolen a number of weapons from the Museum. Stoneman was shot, without warning, when he approached one of the men. All three were later captured and the weapons were recovered.

Stoneman was the first Ottawa police officer to be killed in the line of duty. He was posthumously awarded ‘The King's Police and Fire Service Medal' in 1946.