Movie Still, Henry Starr's "Debtor to the Law"

 
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Movie Still, Henry Starr's "Debtor to the Law"
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Movie Still, Henry Starr's "Debtor to the Law"

Object number2008.165.48
Date1919
Mediumpaper and ink
Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionPromotional movie still of Henry Starr in the film "Debtor to the Law." Starr made the movie himself. It was about a botched robbery he spent time in prison for.

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.
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