Oorzaak: Doodgeschoten bij een inbraak
Er ist verheiratet mit Elisabeth Maria Testroet.
Sie haben geheiratet am 14. Juli 1920 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA, er war 32 Jahre alt.
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Officer Geerts succumbed to gunshot wounds received three days earlier when he attempted to arrest two 16-year-olds he caught burglarizing the Naven Fuel Company. Both boys were arrested in Rock Island four days later.
Both suspects had escaped from the Home for Feeble Minded Children at Gleenwood. They were both convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in the Fort Madison Penitentiary.