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Capital Punishment: Images & Artifacts

Sample Images at MNHS

  City Jail, 322 St. Peter, St. Paul, ca. 1905. Birds-eye view of Minneapolis City Hall. Harry Hayward. Found guilty of the murder of Catherine Ging on March 8, 1895. Executed by hanging on December 11, 1895. The Ging Murder Case Charles Ermisch. Convicted of the murder of Charles Linhoff. Executed by hanging October 19, 1894.

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Fragment of execution rope

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