STILLWATER STATE PRISON:

File sizes range from 5-6 pages up to about 100 pages, with the average being about 10-15 pages. Papers from each case are stapled or bradded together, and tri-folded or rolled. The cover sheet for each file gives file number, name, county, crime, term, and date received, and may include other notations as well.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:

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Access Restrictions:

Access to and use of reserve materials is restricted. Please consult library staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota State Prison (Stillwater, Minn.). Commitment Papers. State Archives. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 987-89; 987-89; 980-2

Processing Information:

Processed by: State Archives staff

Digitized by: Christopher G. Welter, February 2011

Digitization of reserve material was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.

Catalog ID number: 990017043070104294

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Location

Box

125.F.18.4F

1

Files 338-3415.

Location

Box

Reserve 61

2

Files 699-700: Commitment paper for Thomas Coleman Younger, James Younger, and Robert Younger, November 21, 1876. 1 item.

Access Restricted.

Details the Youngers’ guilty plea for the murder of bookkeeper Joseph Lee Heywood, their sentence to imprisonment at hard labor in state prison for the remainder of their natural lives, and direction that they be taken to prison at Stillwater, Minnesota, without delay.

Digital version

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Stillwater State Prison's transcripts of trials of inmates contain additional, more lengthy trial transcripts not included in the commitment file. Stillwater State Prison's case files (discharged inmate files) may include duplicates of some documents in the commitment papers.

Records pertaining to the Younger brothers are also available on the microfilm edition of the Northfield (Minnesota) bank robbery of 1876: Selected manuscript collections and government records (M468).

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Imprisonment -- Minnesota.

Prisoners -- Minnesota.

Prisoners -- Legal status, Laws, etc. -- Minnesota.

Document Types:

Transcripts.

Functions:

Punishing.

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