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Title	Folsom State Prison 1893 Jailbreak Participants
Date	1893
Description	This circa 1900 photograph displays seven of eight participants in a June 27, 1893, jailbreak at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California. The eighth player was ex-Folsom convict Bill Fredericks who vowed to break several of his prison mates out. He did so in the morning, spiriting rifles, pistols and knives onto prison grounds and to his waiting compatriots. The next day, the seven prisoners, minus Fredericks, took a guard hostage, and then attacked a guard tower in an effort to escape. Guards, located in several of the facility towers and from the prison grounds returned a fusillade of gunfire, killing three and wounding the balance of the group. A total of 64 bullets hit the group. Clockwise and from the top, the group is as follows: Frank Williams, Charles Abbott, Thomas Wilson, Henry Wilson, Thomas Schell, and George Sontag; in the middle is A. Dalton. Williams, Dalton and Thomas Wilson were killed during the break. The image is inscribed with the phrase “Seven Convicts Who Made the Break at Folsom Prison, June 27, 1893.”
Format	8 x 10 in.; b&w
Holding Institution	Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library
Rights	This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
City/County	Folsom
Subjects	Portraits Prisons Folsom, California
Collection	Sacramento Room Photograph Collection
Identifying Number	2204