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sheriff guns down mobster

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by TBHC @ 11:20 am

76 years ago…

January 2, 1931 – Sheriff R.T. Joughin shoots and kills James Turner, a Chicago gangster who earlier in the day had orchestrated a daring escape from a county prison truck, in an open field northeast of Sulphur Springs.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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