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A photograph of David W. Burns' grave in Mount Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kansas. Burns, a records clerk and parole officer at the Kansas State Penitentiary, appears in an inset on the photograph. He was shot and killed by a convict he was transporting from Texas. Printed on the back of the photograph is a eulogy written and read at the funeral by A. B. Carney, chairman of the state board of Administration.
Date: December 18, 1923
Item Number: 216416
Call Number: B Burns, David W. *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216416
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Law enforcement officers
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s - 1923
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Corrections, Department of
Home and Family - Death and funerals
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lansing
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Type of Material - Photographs
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