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.