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Stoughton December 6th 1935

Dear Folks

We had a spell of o weather, yesterday morning the thermometer went to 50 above & this morning it was down to zero after a windy night. The radio news said, it was the coldest night it had been of the time of the year, for six years. We are having notoriety in our neighborhood these times. That family who moved in accross [[across]] the way the middle of the summer, was arrested at midnight, after our household had gone to bed for the night. Yesterday afternoon an auto was parked out front & a policeman went up their driveway & tried all the doors in the house opposite, but no one was at home he went away. Police from Boston & our police began to watch the house from that time on hiding up & going to Bingo & Ballentines one at a time, (reporters also), being a cold night they took time in watching, they made them hot coffee to help them keep from freezing. Somewhere about midnight they showed up, then they arrested them. They had been living togather [[together]] as a  woman & her boarder to the neighbors, but he was a married man with a wife & three children in Jamaca [[Jamaica]] Plains. it seems the woman here

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