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On December,, gunshots echoed across Atlantas famous Peachtree Street moments before a handsome young man darted away from Kaisers Jewelers.
Frank DuPre left in his wake a dead Pinkerton guard and a missing ring, As Christmas shoppers looked on in panic, he raced through the Kimball House Hotel and shot another victim, The brazen events terrified a crimefilled city already on edge, A manhunt captured the nineteenyearold, unemployed DuPre, who faced a quick conviction and a hanging sentence, Months of appeals pitted a prosecutor demanding some “good oldfashioned rope” against “maudlin sentimentalists” and “sob sisters, ” Author Tom Hughes recounts the true harrowing story behind the legend of one of the last men hanged in Atlanta.
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