The ‘find’ of the 7 letters tucked between Pages 254
& 255 was unexpected. Also unexpected was their very
possible link to
a separate E-town jail history project underway at
the time:
A web memorial for
Essex Jailor
Earl Torrence killed 11/15/48 in a breakout by 2
inmates. The planned web page was to tell about his great
nephew’s
success getting Earl’s name added a D.C. memorial
wall.
Earl Torrence
Great
nephew
CO Joe Stickney at the D.C. wall.
The “find” of
the 7 letters tucked between Pages 254 & 255 was unexpected. Also
unexpected was their very possible link to the subject matter of another --
but until then -- separate Elizabethtown jail history project underway at the
time:
That project
was the construction of a memorial web page on our NYCHS site for Essex
Jailor Earl Torrence killed Nov. 15, 1948 in a breakout by 2 inmates. The
planned web page was to tell about the successful efforts by his grand nephew
– NY State C.O. Joe Stickney – in getting Earl’s name added a Washington D.C.
memorial wall.