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Butler County Jail

Civic
1920s
c. 1920
Poplar Bluff
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"He was arrested, tried and convicted and was hanged in the jail building on March 26th, 1920"

— Source: Deem's History of Butler County Missouri (referenced c. 1920)

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The location of an execution by hanging in 1920.

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