NYCHS helped fill one gap in C. O. Joe Stickney’s research into the breakout and its aftermath. Joe knew his great aunt had written a letter to the DA that influenced his decision to accept Murder 2 pleas from her husband’s killers instead of seeking mandatory death penalty Murder 1 convictions.
	But Joe, who does not use computers, had not come across the letter’s text during research at his local library. Using Northern NY Library Network’s on-line historical news-papers archives, NYCHS found and posted the above image of it in our web presentation.
	Deeply religious and a close friend of the mother of  Wm. Moody, one of the killers, Kathleen wrote she hoped “these men would be punished” but did “not desire of the death of these men. . . .”  She noted killing them would not bring Earl back and added “I feel sorry for their parents.”