MISTAKES/GOOFS

• FAKE: When the warden opens the safe the backside of the door and the frame are perfectly smooth. There is no latch and catch mechanism of any kind that could have locked it.
• DATE: West is sentenced by the warden to be executed in the electric chair. The first use of the electric chair was in the 1890s, outside the post-Civil War Grant Administration time frame of the series. (The first chair was built in 1889; the first man to be executed was William Kemmler in New York's Auburn Prison on 6 August 1890. The process took eight minutes and resulted in the body catching fire.)
• DATE: Gordon distracts the executioner by feigning a sighting of stage actress Lillian Russell. Russell would not achieve that breadth of notoriety until the 1880s, beyond the post-Civil War time frame of the series.

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