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Jail building
Civic
1920s
c. 1920
Poplar Bluff, MO
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"He was arrested, tried and convicted and was hanged in the jail building on March 26th, 1920, a little over one month after the crime was committed."
— Source: Deem's History of Butler County Missouri (referenced c. 1920)
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Location of the hanging of James Johnson.
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