Frank Dupree [Laws E24]

DESCRIPTION: Frank Dupree, the singer, gets in trouble when he steals a diamond from an Atlanta jewelry store. As he leaves, he shoots a policeman and drives off. He is arrested and sentenced to death when he returns to his sweetheart Betty
AUTHOR: Probably Andrew Jenkins
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (recording, Blind Andy [Jenkins], Rosa Lee Carson)
KEYWORDS: robbery homicide love prison execution
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Dec 15, 1921 - Frank DuPre robs an Atlanta jewelry store, killing two people in the process
Sept. 1, 1922 - DuPre hanged
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Laws E24, "Frank Dupree"
Roberts/Agey-InThePine #68, "Frankie Dupree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore2 247, "Frank Dupree" (1 text)
Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore, pp. 259-260, "Frank Dupree" (1 text)
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #39, "Frank Dupree" (2 texts)
Friedman-Viking/PenguinBookOfFolkBallads, p. 396, "Dupree" (2 texts, but only the first is E24; Laws considers the second to be I11)
DT 794, DUPREE1 DUPREE2
ADDITIONAL: Tom Hughes, _Hanging the Peachtree Bandit: The True Tale of Atlanta's Infamous Frank DuPre_, History Press, 2014, pp. 111-112, "(no title)" (1 text)
Roud #2253
RECORDINGS:
Blind Andy [Jenkins], "Frank Dupree" (OKeh 40446, 1925)
Rosa Lee Carson, "Frank Du Pree" (OKeh 40446, 1925)
Vernon Dalhart, "Frank Dupree" (Columbia 15042-D, 1925)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Dupree" [Laws I11] (plot)
NOTES [14 words]: For background on the story of Frank DuPre, see the notes to "Dupree" [Laws I11]. - RBW
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