This photograph shows inmates, August "Gus" Freeholtz, prisoner #8770 and Charles Bailey, prisoner #9611. Gus Freeholtz was received at the Kansas State Penitentiary on December 24, 1898 from Atchison County, Kansas for burglary and larceny. Variant spellings of his surname includes Frieholtz. Inmate Charles Bailey was received at the penitentiary on December 21, 1900 from Shawnee County, Kansas for larceny.
Kansas Memory
Kansas Historical Society
August Freeholtz and Charles Bailey, prisoners 8770 and 9611