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[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0564]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheriff Newt Burns, center, had both ands out for checks Wednesday after the largest whisky sale ever conducted by an Oklahoma Sheriff."
Date: November 29, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0563]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Deputy sheriffs Tuesday recovered an additional $3,500 worth of loot stolen in a series of burglaries in four counties the past two weeks."
Date: October 25, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0551]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the first official acts of Newt Burns, new Oklahoma county sheriff, will be the biggest liquor destruction ever carried out in the county."
Date: January 3, 1949
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0553]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Charles W. Kunc, police department secretary, and Newton Burns, homicide squad chief, examine a collection of firearms and other weapons used in suicides or slayings or taken from persons arrested."
Date: unknown
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0552]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Newt Burns, Police Department, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma classifying fingerprints in the Identification Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D. C."
Date: 1941
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0558]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Renovation and repairs of county jail mattresses and prisoners' clothing now is being done by trusties at a saving of more than $500 annually."
Date: November 23, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0559]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sheriff Newt Burns has enough stock to open his electrical appliance shop, but there's just one catch-it's all stolen merchandise."
Date: November 11, 1949
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0549]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sheriff Newt Burns, right, struck a new blow Wednesday at gambling when he and deputies destroyed 47 slot machines several pinball machines, and other gambling paraphernalia valued at more than $15,000."
Date: March 2, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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