St. Cloud Reformatory. Inmate Case Files
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Sax Minn Box 26
April 16-1921
Mr Chas E
Vasaly:-
Dear Sir:-
In reply to your letter for informasion [sic] about
Carl John Alfred Hammerberg
He has spend conciderable [sic] of his time at
our farm he always seem satisfied to sociate [sic] just with our family and
stayd [sic] right with us. We were very much surprised when he was blamed for a
thing like that. For he was very much of a coward
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a bird in the woods could scare him.
The last coupple [sic] of
years he has been old enough to got woork [sic] in town and so he has helped his
mother for she is a widow. he has always sociated [sic] with boys that was much
younger than himself, and nice boys at that.
The reason he was convicted he
has been brought upp [sic] to tell the truth and so he did. On the trail [sic]
there was not one wittnes [sic] against him. He just told the truth like he has
been brought upp [sic] to do and that was that he went with the crowd. and there
were thousands
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that did the same.
Yours truely [sic]
C J Johnson