Telegram Expressing Concern About Staff Activities

Date
March 11, 1914

A telegram from Carlisle student Gus Welch (also known as Gustavus Welch) to Inspector Edward B. Linnen. Welch expresses his concern that Claude Stauffer, Anna Ridenour, and an attorney named Ligitt had approached the student Julia Hardin to force her to sign papers. Additionally, Ligitt was passing around a petition and Welch says that some students "fear some trickery" because the petition was not dated.

 

Time Period
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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, CCF Entry 121, #10144-1914-Carlisle-154
typed telegram, light brown paper, purple ink, with header that reads "Night Letter The Western Union Telegraph Company"