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President Roosevelt has heard of the murder of Secret Service Agent Joseph A. Walker in the line of duty while conducting an investigation into coal land fraud at the Hesperia Mine near Durango, Colorado. Roosevelt expects Attorney General Bonaparte to vigorously prosecute all charges Walker was investigating.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-05
President Roosevelt has heard of the murder of Secret Service Agent Joseph A. Walker in the line of duty while conducting an investigation into coal land fraud at the Hesperia Mine near Durango, Colorado. Roosevelt expects Secretary of the Interior Garfield to vigorously prosecute all charges Walker was investigating.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-05
President Roosevelt calls Attorney General Moody’s attention to the situation in Idaho relating to the trial of Charles H. Moyer and Big Bill Haywood. Roosevelt emphasizes that justice must be done, and the men must be judged related to the particular facts of the case of the assassination of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, regardless of the sort of labor agitation they were involved with elsewhere. Roosevelt also does not wish for there to be errors in their favor, however, and asks Moody to look into agitation on their behalf by labor unions, who are unwilling to consider the possible guilt of Moyer or Haywood. Roosevelt highlights some writings of Eugene V. Debs and Thomas W. Rowe which seem to amount “to an incitement to anarchy and chaos.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-26
Tweed Roosevelt recounts a murder trial that centered on the granddaughter of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, the uncle of Theodore Roosevelt known as RBR. Roosevelt examines the secret, scandalous life of RBR, who fathered three illegitimate children, and he shows how one of these children, Granville Fortescue, carried on the scandalous life of his father. Fortescue’s daughter, Thalia Massie, would inherit the dissolute traits of her family and would be at the center of high profile rape and murder cases in Hawaii. Roosevelt describes the racial atmosphere of 1930s Hawaii, and he chronicles the two trials, the participation of famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the political maneuvering resulting from the verdicts.
The feature is populated with seven photographs, a political cartoon, an illustration, and an arrest document.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2014
Joseph Bucklin Bishop sends President Roosevelt an enclosure regarding the recent murder of Narciso Gener Gonzales, a newspaper editor in South Carolina whose paper, The State, called for an end to lynching, among other progressive causes. Bishop feels this incident will be of great service to Roosevelt’s position on African American affairs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-20