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Title: Record of Execution of Inmate at Folsom Prison
Creator: Williamson, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981/03/10
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: A photo of the record of execution of Walter Lewis who was hanged on August 3, 1934, following a conviction for first degree murder. This record, found in the Folsom Prison Death Book, contain remarks that the underlying murder was of a crippled girl with an ax.
Type: Image
Identifier: 30AC6C28-CD18-409E-9AE0-343642522856
1983/001/SBPM06576a
Subject: Folsom Prison
Represa, Ca
Sacramento County
Lewis, Walter

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