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Description
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.
About This Item
- Title: Lieutenant Henry Fortune holding Turner murder weapon, Portland, 1927
- Creation Date: 1926
- Subject Date: 1926
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass negative
- Dimensions: 8.9 cm x 11.4 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.14573
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Crime--Maine--History
- Firearms--Maine
- Murder--Maine--Portland
- Photojournalism
- Photojournalism--Maine--20th century
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Benjamin Turner, convicted murderer of James Hallen, Portland, ca. 1926
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