Jury Charges Prison Fire Set By 3 Convicts

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The top of photos 21-23 repeats the final paragraph of the page-10 AP report, establishing page continuity. Photo 22 is the clearest main copy. The jury’s findings are attributed to this newspaper report, not independently verified court records. Newspaper allegations and testimony are reported claims, not independently established findings. Reading transcriptions normalize spacing and line-break hyphenation; bracketed flags preserve uncertainty. No generative image restoration was used.

Original publication

Jury Charges Prison Fire Set By 3 Convicts

Date

July 19, 1967

Credits

Photographed and supplied by Spencer Madrie

Publisher

Playground Daily News

Published in

Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Where to find it

10

Reference collection

Fort Walton Beach library archives microfilm (user-provided provenance)

Playground Daily News, July 19, 1967, page 10 (placement linked by overlap with the preceding article). Source layout and transcriptions visually inspected. July 19 Georgia item date established by overlapping neighboring columns in photos 09, 19, 21 and 24-25; page 10 visible in photo 08. Photographer confirms discovery order. Separate PDFs derived from the existing archival reading edition/transcription, retaining its uncertainty flags. This reformatting does not establish facts beyond the source or resolve earlier source limitations.

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