KSP prisoner 139
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#139- Ella Buckner from Shawnee County. Sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary on 03-28-1902 for Robbery 1.
Ella Buckner, formerly known as the "Queen of Smoky Row" (Smoky row was a slum in Topeka) appears regularly in Topeka area newspapers around the turn of the century. Below is an excerpt from the Topeka Daily Capital on Saturday Nov. 23, 1901 regarding this particular case.
ELLABUCKNER TAKES CHANCE
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Ex-Queen of Smoky row Appeals Eleven Year Sentence to Supreme Court. Ella Buckner, the negro woman convicted in the district court of highway robbery and sentenced to eleven years in the state penitentiary, has appealed her case to the Supreme court. Yesterday a stay of execution was granted and the Buckner woman’s bond was placed at $1,500. As yet she has not been able to furnish bond and it may be that she will have to stay in jail during the time her case is before the Supreme court.
March 1902
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KSP prisoner 128
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#128- Joseph Derion from Brown County. Sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on 03-25-1902 for Manslaughter 4.
Below are excerpts from Brown County World leading up to his time at the Kansas State Penitentiary.
Brown County World, Friday Feb. 8, 1901
Joe Derion, the Indian who shot and killed Murray Campbell, has only been married a few months. He married Miss Lela Whittaker, of Falls City, who was a missionary on the reservation. She thought he had decided to be a good Indian…
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Brown County World, Friday Dec. 13, 1901
A case has been filed against Joseph Derion for the murder of Murray Campbell on the reservation last January. Derion waived preliminary hearing before Justice Bronson and was turned over to the district court at once.
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Brown County World, Friday Mar. 28, 1902
Derion Goes to Penitentiary
Sheriff Smith took Joseph Derion to the state penitentiary at Lansing Tuesday. Derion had to be vaccinated and the authorities would not admit him until certain that the vaccination was successful. Derion will only have to serve one year in the penitentiary from the time he was sentenced by Judge Stuart about the last of February.
March 1902
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KSP prisoner 134
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#134- William Williams (#2) from Geary County. Sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on 3-27-1902 for assault with intent to kill.
A newspaper excerpt from the Junction City Union on Monday Mar. 17, 1902.
QUICK WORK IN COURT.
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Williams Receives a Sentence of One Year—Court Adjourns Judge O. L. Moore returned from Abilene at noon today and reconvened court this afternoon. William Williams, the negro who shot J. McGonigle, of the Eighth cavalry, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. For swift justice this case was a record breaker. The Crime was committed Saturday morning and the criminal captured Sunday. Owing to the illness of Juror Mann the Buck vs. Davidson case continued until next term. The jury was discharged and court adjourned sine die.
March 1902
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KSP Prisoner 129
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#129- George Cothran from Pottawattomie county. Sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary on 03-25-1902 for Grand Larceny.
A newspaper excerpt from The Wichita Beacon dated Monday Mar. 17, 1902 regarding George Cothran.
CAUGHT A THIRD TIME
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Cothran, Who Twice Escaped, Is Again in Law’s Toils
Sheriff Sidney Schram has landed George Cothran behind the bars of the Pottawatomie county jail.
Cothran, it will be remembered, was convicted of the theft of some cotton in this county during Sheriff Billy Trousdale’s administration, and while being taken by that officer to the penitentiary at Lansing, Kan., to serve a sentence of a year and eight months made a break and gained his liberty, while being transferred from the Choctaw to the Santa Fe train at Oklahoma City. He was again captured last summer and jailed at Tecumseh, and later while again enroute to the pen in the custody of Sheriff Schram gave the sheriff the slip while being taken from the lunch room to the train at Arkansas City, and up to Saturday when caught by officers at Ada, I.T., has successfully evaded all efforts at capture.
March 1902
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KSP prisoner 140
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#140- Uri Henson from McPherson County. Sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on 3-28-1902 for Grand Larceny.
March 1902
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KSP prisoner 142
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#142- William Washington. Atchison County. Sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas on 3-29-1902 for Burglary and Larceny.
March 1902
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KSIF prisoners 2902 & 2903
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#2902- Norma Mark from Reno County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-7-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
#2903- Mary Cole from Reno County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-7-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
June 1926
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KSIF prisoners 2898 & 2920
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#2898- Alice Pierson from Wyandotte County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 5-29-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
#2920- Nettie Mendenhall from Jewell County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-21-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
May and June 1926
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KSIF prisoners 2906 & 2908
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#2906- Inez Cook from Wyandotte County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-10-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
#2908- Grace Corcoran from Sedgwick County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-13-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
June 1926
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KSIF prisoners 2904 & 2905
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#2904- Viola Jones from Reno County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-7-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
#2905- Mary Winborn from Wyandotte County. Sentenced to Kansas State Industrial Farms in Lansing on 6-10-26 for Violation of Chapter 205.
June 1926
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