s that plunged the city of New York into a
riot of criminality that bid fair to rival the orgies
of Roam under the rane of Nero.

we have jest been regoiceing in the convicksion
of the ring leeders of the band of garrotters that
has terrorfide the naboring city of Boston when
we are confrunted with a serious of crimes in our
own town that bid fair to rival the wirst of the
above mensioned atrosities.

the cowerdly assault upon our wirthy sittizen mister
William Hobbs a man whose mennifoaled and
sterling trates of carackter intitle him to a very
high rank as a cittisen. the dasterdly attact up on
mister Biley J. Tilton whose open handed jennorosity
has done so mutch to maik his naim ornnered
in this community. the repperhensibel nature of
their warning to mister Isak Shute a man whose
jenerous wirth and moddist life has indeered him
to evryone, the coarse thret to mister J. Albert
Clark whose kinliness and good deads are as well
knone as his finanshal ability and probbity, are sutch
as maik the blud of evry onnest man boil in their
vanes.

it is indeed time that the ofisers of the law take
the most astringint measures to deteck and stamp
out the hoal infernal brood.

when father come hoam tonite he redd it and
laffed and sed i wunder what dam fool rote that.
ennyone with branes enuf to fill a thimbel had augt
to know that nobudy is going to be hirt. the fellers
that tide up that mud tirtles mouth aint going to
hirt ennyone. the moar the fools talk about it the
moar the fellers that are doing it are going to do
it sum moar.

i bet old Hobbs and Ike and old Biley Tilton and
J. Albert bougt 100 Exeter Newsleters apeace to
send round to their friends if they have got enny.

October 25, 186---clowdy and cold. i dident
get licked today in school whitch was a releef. last
nite i woak up and got thinking about the Terible 3
and what wood hapen if we got cougt and i coodent
go to sleep for moar than 2 hours. i gess the
peace in the Newsleters wurrid me. i wundered
if i had augt to have got up the Terible 3. i had
sevveral narow escaips from the reform school so
father had sed and this was wirse if i got cougt.
so i desided me and Pewt and Beany must be verry
cairful and not leeve enny trase of our dedly wirk.
bimeby i got to sleap and dident get up this morning
untill mother come up and shook me. i hardly
had time to get in my wood and water and eet my
breckfast and hiper to school. i got there jest in
time w