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Carl John Alfred Hammerberg. Case No. 5148. Letter from C. J. Johnson to Charles E. Vasaly, April 16, 1921.

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 Carl John Alfred Hammerberg. Case No. 5148. Letter from C. J. Johnson to Charles E. Vasaly, April 16, 1921.--Correspondence (gif)
 Carl John Alfred Hammerberg. Case No. 5148. Letter from C. J. Johnson to Charles E. Vasaly, April 16, 1921.--Correspondence (gif)
 Carl John Alfred Hammerberg. Case No. 5148. Letter from C. J. Johnson to Charles E. Vasaly, April 16, 1921.--Correspondence (gif)

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Sax Minn Box 26
April 16-1921
Mr Chas E Vasaly:-
Dear Sir:-
In reply to your letter for informasion [sic] about Carl John Alfred Hammerberg
He has spend conciderable [sic] of his time at our farm he always seem satisfied to sociate [sic] just with our family and stayd [sic] right with us. We were very much surprised when he was blamed for a thing like that. For he was very much of a coward



a bird in the woods could scare him.
The last coupple [sic] of years he has been old enough to got woork [sic] in town and so he has helped his mother for she is a widow. he has always sociated [sic] with boys that was much younger than himself, and nice boys at that.
The reason he was convicted he has been brought upp [sic] to tell the truth and so he did. On the trail [sic] there was not one wittnes [sic] against him. He just told the truth like he has been brought upp [sic] to do and that was that he went with the crowd. and there were thousands


that did the same.

Yours truely [sic]
C J Johnson

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