Age: 54
Served: 5 years
1925 to June 13, 1930
OFFICER
Gus was born February 8, 1876 in Cincinnati to German immigrants Bernard August (a carpenter) and Marie Louise (Brink) Schoo. At 21, on November 19, 1897, he married Missouri Annie (Dance) Bauer, a widow with two sons in Newport. They had one child together, Maria Silva Schoo, on December 15, 1901, but she lived on only 26 days. About 1909 at 33 years old, he started working as a shearman at the Newport Rolling Mill and he would work there for 21 years. He and Mrs. Schoo were living at 526 Lindsey in 1909 and they would live there for the rest of his life. He was also a member of the Moose Lodge and of the Sons of Pioneers. We have no other information regarding his first 48 years.
On March 20, 1924, three man resigned from the Newport Police Department, citing a lack of pay as their reason. The Newport commissioners appointed three replacements, including Gus. He soon became a model patrolman and his name graced the newspaper regularly with his arrests of bootleggers and/or dangerous, armed criminals. During 1929, he shot and killed and armed burglar. On April 1, 1930, he was reassigned to the First Ward, partnering up with newly promoted Patrolman Edward Buckingham.
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