Ohio Penitentiary Investigation photograph   Save
Columbus Dispatch Photograph Collection
Description: Warden Preston E. Thomas of the Ohio State Penitentiary being sworn in to testify at the Ohio Penitentiary Investigation, January 1935. Official investigation began the morning after the fire by the attorney general's office. The board of inquiry was headed by Governor Myers Y. Cooper and assistant attorney general E.C. Snivel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05670
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Fires; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)