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Joseph Wilkerson

Case from Rusk, TX dated Apr 23, 1906

Victim Details

Corrections Joseph F. Joe

Male

Rusk

TX

1906-04-23

51

Joseph

Wilkerson

06/26/2026

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Corrections Officer Joseph F. "Joe" Wilkerson, aged 51, was fatally shot on April 23, 1906, in Rusk, Texas. He was a member of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division. The incident occurred when a train transporting 149 convicts and 24 guards from the prison in Rusk was uncoupled by one of the convicts. As the train was ordered to stop, two convicts fled towards the woods, prompting fifteen to twenty guards to open fire. In the ensuing chaos, Officer Wilkers ...
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