 He was only the third Los Angeles Police Department officer killed in the line of duty — the highest-ranking officer and the only former police chief.At the time of his death he was the longest-serving officer on the LAPD.According to his obituary in the "Los Angeles Herald" of the next day, Auble was born in Illinois in 1861 and at the age of 25 was appointed a special officer and "worked at one of the prominent theaters of that day."