Major Tucker was working as a bank manager of the then Dominion bank branch at Notre Dame and Sherbrook. He was gunned down May 8, 1931, during a hold-up. Major Tucker, who was slightly deaf, was speaking to a bank employee when the bandits entered. He failed to hear their warning "Hands up!" Two shots were fired, Tucker was hit below the heart. He died 50 minutes later. The bandits made off with $6,552. Rewards totalling $7,000 were posted but were never collected.
Tucker served with the 31st Battalion, C.F.F. in the great war. His son Lieutenant L. O. R. Tucker, of the Seaforth Highlanders, would die of his wounds overseas in the second war in 1939. Lt. Tucker had refused treatment until the wounded men under his command were first administered to.
Major Tucker also left behind another son, Major G. O. Tucker of Calgary (in 1939). He left behind a wife (living in Capilano, B.C. in 1939) and two daughters (again in 1939), Mrs. Bruce Robinson and Mary Tucker both of 362 Oak St.
Note: The media also listed the day of the murder as August 5, 1931. As of February 1, 1944, this case was listed as unsolved. I can find no solve in the current archives available to me.
Topic: Major Park B. R. Tucker - Unsolved Murder - 1931 (Read 245 times)
