Evidence: Threatening Letter

As reported in the Oxford Eagle, November 21, 1901

Tuesday, Mr. Dave Rogers, one of the searchers said to be hot on Mathis' trail, received a threatening letter. Rogers was known to have an ongoing dispute with Mathis.

DELAY, Miss, Nov.18, 1901.

"Dave Rogers:

"We wright you this to let you no your time is next, an aneybody else that come out here fooling about with our business. (Sentence too vile for print.) This is to tell you your life is in your hans.

" ‘THIS IS US’ "