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His lips are pressed tightly together. His eyes stare straight ahead. And his thick beard appears streaked with gray.
A recently unearthed glass-plate photograph, about 150 years old, puts a new face on a pivotal figure in perhaps early-Minnesota’s grimmest moment.
Until now, historians had never seen an image of Capt. William J. Duley — the executioner on the day 38 Dakota men were hanged in Mankato after the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. New Ulm researcher and author Elroy Ubl tracked down a descendant in Seattle who had inherited a family album of the glass-plate portraits, including her great-great grandfather’s.
http://www.startribune.com/image-found-of-man-who-hanged-38-dakota-men-153-years-ago/339132231/
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