War is hell
My dad just sent me another cool thing connected with John Eddy being flim-flammed in the oil scam. It’s a letter that John wrote from a mental hospital in Los Angeles to his sister Ida (my great aunt, who lived with us when I was a little kid.)
My dad said John was shell shocked from WW I, and ended up in the sanatarium. The letter is rather paranoid, talking about the different times someone tried to poison him to get his land.
I don’t think the letter was ever mailed, it was in this envelope (note three-cent stamp.)
The envelope is pre-addressed to one of the companies that was ripping him off. (It was probably a pre-paid envelope to make his monthly “land development” payments with.)
By the way, I talked to my buddy John Murphey at the New Mexico historical society today, he’s going to be the Los Angeles area this weekend and may be able to come over to get the papers and have dinner. Yay!
Here’s the letter:
