Item 149968 - Lieutenant Henry Fortune holding Turner murder weapon, Portland, 1927

Item 149968 - Lieutenant Henry Fortune holding Turner murder weapon, Portland, 1927
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Item 149968
Lieutenant Henry Fortune holding Turner murder weapon, Portland, 1927
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Portland Press Herald reporters photographed Lieutenant Henry Fortune carefully displaying the .38 caliber pistol used by Benjamin Turner to murder James D. Hallen, a well-known swindler, stock salesman, and promoter, on his front porch.

Turner traveled 3000 miles from Mexico City to murder Hallen, who conned him out of $827 by posing as a lawyer in Mexico while Turner was in jail.

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