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Ernest Cruse

Arkansas State Penitentiary, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Ernest Cruse died at the penitentiary in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Griggs Courier reported on January 6, 1893, that he died from the effects of poison he had taken while held at Helena. The report gives no other account of how the poison was taken or of the circumstances of his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

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