This Week in Texas Prison History

October 19:

• 1932 - H.P. Rich, inmate of the State penitentiary under a four-year sentence from Galveston County, died Wednesday of injuries suffered in a prison rodeo of last Sunday. He was thrown from a steer and suffered fatal injuries, Prison Manager Leed Simmons said.  (A.P. Dallas Morning News, October 20, 1932)

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