1929 Anonymous Letter From Lake City, Florida to Governor Carlton Regarding The Romey Case

A letter from "one of the sheriff's best friends" in Lake City, Florida to Governor Carlton undated but likely 1929 regarding the deaths of Nola and Hasna Romey. The writer claims Sheiriff Douglass "is no good for a sheriff he is gone now and it is a good time to investigate murder, bootlegging white slavery abd numerous other crimes are going unpunished."

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