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From: "Janet Masters" <>
Subject: Re: [AR-OLD-NEWS] Historic Jail Is Closed By The Government 1911
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:41:24 -0800
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It may have been closed but I think I saw it when I was in Ft Smith. It
sits right on the river.
Janet
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Subject: [AR-OLD-NEWS] Historic Jail Is Closed By The Government 1911


> The Evening News, Ada, OK - Sept. 22, 1911
>
> Historic Jail Is Closed By The Government
> Ft. Smith, Ark., Sept. 19. -- Acting under orders of the government
United States Marshal Mayes Tuesday morning finally closed the United States
jail in this city; the last of the federal jails in the country outside the
capital. The jail is a relic of border days and in its early history housed
the eighty-eight outlaws hung under the regime of the famous hanging Judge
Parker.
> When closed it housed but one convict and four prisoners awaiting trial
for bootlegging.
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