Norma’s letter

“He’ll kill me (poetic license) when he reads this,” Norma wrote to a friend of Murt’s while the couple were on the lam. Note her caricature of Murt in the center, and the sideways notation, “P.S. Please tear up Murt’s letter as it contains evidence.”
Norma later claimed she lived in fear of Murt, and that he forced her to write the letter. At trial the letter did much to determine Norma’s fate.
Courtesy Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library.