Tag: Guard Jack Peart

• Dallas Egan, a half-pint of whiskey (to the last drop).

  

     Armed robber and murderer Dallas Egan was rather younger than Gardner when he died on the gallows in San Quentin’s ‘Hangman’s Hall.’ Courtesy of Governor James ‘Sunny Jim’ Rolph,  Egan may well have been drunk as well. It was by Rolph’s order that Egan was plied with whiskey before his execution and it had…

  CrimeScribe

  July 20, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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