Photograph, Paul Currie and Unidentified Man

 
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photo of Paul Currie and an unidentified man
Photograph, Paul Currie and Unidentified Man
photo of Paul Currie and an unidentified man
photo of Paul Currie and an unidentified man

Photograph, Paul Currie and Unidentified Man

Object number2003.063.02
Dateca 1910-1920
Mediumpaper, ink
DimensionsOverall: 4 x 7 in. (10.2 x 17.8 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum collection
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    DescriptionBlack and white cabinet card photograph of Paul Currie and an unidentified man. Paul Currie shot Henry Starr in the hip and Lewis Estes in the neck and shoulder when he was just seventeen. Starr and Estes robbed a bank on March 27, 1915 in Stroud, OK and were marching down the street, holding a hostage, to meet the rest of the gang, when Currie shot them.

    Henry Starr was an outlaw best known as a bank robber and horse thief born in 1874. He spent five years in prison for a botched bank robbery before going on to make a movie of that robbery, "A Debtor to the Law." Henry Starr robbed the bank in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 1893 and was killed while robbing a bank in Harrison, Arkansas, in 1921.
    Status
    Not on view
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