Jerry Emerson was a 69-year-old male jailer in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, working at the Logan County jail when his life ended violently on May 14, 1903. On that Thursday afternoon he went about the routines of custody and supervision that defined his days, moving prisoners through the brick-and-steel confines of the county facility that had been operating since the late nineteenth century. Contemporary and later memorial records remember him simply and starkly as a jailer killed in the line o
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