Corporal Brady Clemens Paul Memorial Highway

Act 23 of 2022, § 58, under MULTIPLE DESIGNATIONS IN MULTIPLE COUNTIES AND REPEALS - DESIGNATION.

Act 23 of 2022, § 58

Section 58. Corporal Brady Clemens Paul Memorial Highway.

(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:

(1) Corporal Brady Clemens Paul was born on November 7, 1904, in Hickory, Pennsylvania.

(2) On January 7, 1926, when Corporal Paul was 22 years of age, he enlisted with the State Highway Patrol.

(3) On December 27, 1929, at 11:50 a.m., Corporal Paul and Patrolman Ernest Moore set up a roadblock on Butler Highway, three miles east of New Castle, to stop a motor vehicle.

(4) When Corporal Paul asked the driver to step out of the vehicle, a passenger came around the side of the vehicle and opened fire on the officers.

(5) Corporal Paul's dying words were "Tell the boys I did my duty, I did my best."

(6) Corporal Paul was pronounced dead on arrival at Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle.

(7) Nineteen days later, the escapees were apprehended after a shoot-out with a sheriff's posse in Arizona and were extradited to this Commonwealth where they were tried, sentenced and executed for murder.

(b) Designation.--The section of Pennsylvania Route 50 in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, identified as Segment 210-220, is designated the Corporal Brady Clemens Paul Memorial Highway.

(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to traffic in both directions on the highway.