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Louis Armstrong

Arrested

Tuesday Dec 31, 1912
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

Borrowing his stepfather's gun without permission, he fired a blank into the air and was arrested on December 31, 1912. He spent the night at New Orleans Juvenile Court, then was sentenced the next day to detention at the Colored Waif's Home.


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