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[Dora Clifford Walton] was committed to the Massachusetts State Reformatory for Women at Framingham, Massachusetts, on Dec. 8, 1913. On February 16, 1914 she was transferred to the State Infirmary at Tewksbury. She returned to the Reformatory on April 27, 1914 add was paroled from the Reformatory on November 24, 1914.
We have learned from Mrs. Jessie L. Hodder that this woman was probably under nominal supervision until her sentence expired in 1918.
[Richard Abelstone] ([Richard Abel Stone]), colored, was the co‐defendant in the same adultery trial with [Dora Clifford Walton]. He was sent to the House of Correction at Pittsfield, Massachusetts and left there on April 4, 1914. I have not been informed as to whether he was also on parole or not.
We have no information in regard to [Richard Abelstone] since he left the Reformatory and we have no information in regard to [Dora Clifford Walton] between the dates when she left the Reformatory on November 24, 1914, until she appeared in Vermont with new consort and a new baby in the fall of 1919. That is, her reappearance in Vermont seems to coincide with the expiration of her parole.
As the State of Vermont is taking care of [Dora] and the children that Massachusetts is not taking care of, we are interested in her history and wonder if you have any information in regard to her whereabouts and conduct during the four years mentioned above. Have you any information in regard to [Richard Abelstone] during those years?
We have been told that [Dora] went to Readsboro, Vermont, where her parents were, but we have not been able to find out from Readsboro people that she was there at that time.
Any help that you nay be able to give would be very greatly appreciated.
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