Howard Leslie Quigg (1887 – 1980) was an American policeman who was twice the chief of police in Miami, Florida, in the periods 1921-1928 and 1937–1944.[1]
Quigg was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.[2]
In 1928, he and some of his officers were accused of the murder of a Black man in their custody.[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.[1]
Quigg died of a stroke in 1980, at the age of 92.[8]
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