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On November 1, 1907, a White male guard, Ed Samuelson, was on duty at the
Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins when an inmate launched a desperate escape attempt.
The prisoner had a revolver and a stick of dynamite smuggled into the prion, and in the sudden violence that followed, the inmate shot the male guard, killing him inside the prison complex.
The assailant was already notorious within Wyoming law enforcement history: he was serving a life sentence for the 1901 mur ...Read More
Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins when an inmate launched a desperate escape attempt.
The prisoner had a revolver and a stick of dynamite smuggled into the prion, and in the sudden violence that followed, the inmate shot the male guard, killing him inside the prison complex.
The assailant was already notorious within Wyoming law enforcement history: he was serving a life sentence for the 1901 mur ...Read More
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Ed Samuelson
Male
White / Caucasian
Rawlins
WY
1907-11-01
Edward
Ed Samuelson
Self-Inflicted
11/24/2025
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Has anyone else been looking into the conditions at the Wyoming State Penitentiary during the early ... ...Read More
06/05/2023
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