Haymarket Affair Digital Collection

Police officer's wooden baton.
[ca. 1886]
Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept.
1 baton: wood, brown; 14 3/4 in., 1 1/4 in. in diameter.

Cylindrical wooden stick with ring turnings at one end forming hand grip. Bulge at center of grip ornamented with parallel turnings 1/8" apart.

(CHS X.1379.)

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Police Baton