Howard Leslie Quigg (1887 – 26 September 1980) was an American policeman who was twice the chief of police in Miami, Florida, in the periods 1921-1928 and 1937–1944.
[3] Quigg was indicted in 1928 after three Miami police officers beat Harry Kier, a Black bellboy, to death for allegedly insulting a white woman at the hotel where he worked.
[4][5] Although he was taken into custody in late March,[6] the criminal charges were dismissed by May because the witness did not testify.
[7] He was succeeded as police chief by Guy C. Reeve in 1928, and by Charles O. Nelson in 1944.
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