Jim Toots with Joe McMillan, Daggett, and Phillips about to be hung

Creator

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Identifier

20157400

Description

Jim Toots at the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth about to be hanged; Daggett and Joe McMillan on right, man on left not identified; caption says "Jim Toots on the Gallows," Approximately 1895. Jim Toots was an alias for Jim Burris. Governor Charles A. Culberson would later commute Toots death sentence to life in prison. In 1902 Governor Joseph Sayers pardoned Jim Toots.

Archival Date

1895 (Approximately)

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-2630 06/13/1951

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White;Copy of Original Image

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Prisoners; Executions; Lynchings; Hangings (Executions); Gallows; Jails