Letter from Shurtliff (inmate relation) to Sweet January 9, 1925
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Title
Letter from Shurtliff (inmate relation) to Sweet January 9, 1925
Description
J.S Shurtliff had a son at the Colorado State Penitentiary and he believed Warden Tynan was a wicked man. He trusted Governor William Sweet's motives and supported the removal of Tynan.
Transcription:
Governor Sweet-
Dear Sir
I hope you out Tynan. I hope he get what is coming to him. Here is one that doesn't think Governor Sweet has justice. I have a boy in Canon City Penitentiary and when I went out to see him and tried to get him out he sneered at me. He went to the Pen for 6 years for stealing $82. Do you think that is justice?
Here is one that stands for our governor for I believe he is fair and just.
Here is hopes that you come out and have the victory.
Yours as a friend,
J.S Shurtliff
Transcription:
Governor Sweet-
Dear Sir
I hope you out Tynan. I hope he get what is coming to him. Here is one that doesn't think Governor Sweet has justice. I have a boy in Canon City Penitentiary and when I went out to see him and tried to get him out he sneered at me. He went to the Pen for 6 years for stealing $82. Do you think that is justice?
Here is one that stands for our governor for I believe he is fair and just.
Here is hopes that you come out and have the victory.
Yours as a friend,
J.S Shurtliff
Source
J.S Shurtliff to William Sweet, 9 January 1925, box 1, FF 9, No. 6, William Elery Sweet Collection, MSS.613, History Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
Citation
“Letter from Shurtliff (inmate relation) to Sweet January 9, 1925,” Cañon City: Ku Klux Klan and Prisons , accessed November 15, 2026, https://coloradocollege.website/prison/items/show/48.