Holding the rank of Sergeant, Owens enforced child labor and welfare laws.

She was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Irish immigrants.

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97' never invokes the string arm that is back of her unless all gentler methods have been proved inefficient ... in all her fifteen years of police experience never has 'Sergeant No.

Marie Owens died in New York City in June 1927, and was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois.