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Correspondence about Sheriff's duties and activities. Among the letters are those from individuals, county, state, and federal officials, governors, F.B.I., telegrams, bulletins, and a sampling of wanted posters, including John Dillinger and "Baby Face" Nelson. The variety of correspondence illustrates the range of duties. Of utmost concern is tracking the location of felons and apprehending bootleggers. These records may compliment Sheriff's case file records.

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Daily entries of activities of Sheriff. Notations are very brief and state activity or person met that day.

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Monthly account of criminal activity submitted to Commissioner of Law Enforcement. Required by law in 1923, these reports summarized individual violations, proceedings, complaints and disposition. Forms state sections of law violated, name, address, pleading, and results of trial. For some men charged with boot-legging, forms required statements on still and material seized, use of search warrant, list of property seized, and date or result of trial.

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Civil papers maintained by the Sheriff, including notices, summons, and executions.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Records relating to individuals arrested by the Sheriff. Files may include Justice Court papers, correspondence to and from Sheriff, personal letters and papers, Sheriff's arrest record, warrants, complaints, fingerprints, and photographs. Criminal charges may be written on folders.

Scope and Contents From the File: Civil and criminal Justice of the Peace court papers issued to, delivered by, or maintained by Sheriff as an Officer of the Court. These include summons, complaints, warrants, petitions, motions, executions, judgments, undertakings on attachments and affidavits. Occasionally, there are hand written notes on fees collected and reasons why a case was dismissed. These case papers are not complete, and papers relating to one case may be separated. Justice of the Peace criminal and civil case...