2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Two original photograph portraits of the handsome, very young looking fellow separately affixed at top left corner; one having full head of hair parted in the middle, wearing civilian clothes; the other with shaven "skinhead" and wearing wide prison stripes. Photos sharp and crisp with normal sepia toning from age, but exc. +. Overall 8½ x 11; blank reverse. Typewriter style details about Jos. C. Hirte who "…escaped from State Road camp located at Lyle, Washington earlier that very same day…fifty dollars reward will be paid for his apprehension." The fellow had been sentenced in 1906 to a term of four years for robbery and had "…lost all good time served…for forging transfers for a fellow prisoner…" Details of physical description, scars, deformities, etc. as well as his occupation as a "…laundryman and twine maker…" Normal aging. Exc.
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