Frank Leroy's Personal Articles, Conconully Jail, 1910
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Title
Frank Leroy's Personal Articles , Conconully Jail , 1910
Photographer
Matsura , Frank , 1873-1913 .
Description
In January 1910 , Matsura visited the Conconully Jail to take photos of the personal possessions of the infamous Frank Leroy . His arsenal included four guns , a bottle of nitroglycerine , fuse , wax , cotton batten and safe blower's wedges--for Leroy was what is referred to as a "Yegg ", or professional hobo , burglar , and safe blower . Implicated in two 1909 burglaries at Brewster and Ophir , Leroy resisted arrest and was shot three times by Okanogan's Sherriff Thorp . Though wounded , Leroy escaped from the Okanogan Jail just ten days after his arrest and traveled some distance before being captured at Malott . During his trial in January it was found that Leroy had served eight years at the Penitentiary in Walla Walla , Washington for two prior convictions . This time Leroy received a life sentence .
Subject
Clothing & dress ; Guns--Washington (State)--Okanogan
Date
1910
Type
Image
Genre
Photographic prints
Location
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Okanogan county--Conconully
Identifier
pc035b2f33n03
Source
Is found in PC 35, Frank S. Matsura Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc35.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1913 death of the author.
Restrictions
For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691 or the Okanogan Historical Society (509) 422-4272
Format
Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on a Microtek 9600XL scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENT database at the WSU Libraries.
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