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I scanned it and transcribed it and shared it online a few years ago, but not sure if that is still around, and I'd have to dig through boxes in the loft to find the original, however, the letter this article [1] describes sounds almost identical in content to the one I have.

It reminded me that I also have a "letter from the prison chaplain", and a short follow-up letter from "Antonia Garcia" in shaky writing that trails off mid-sentence, and another letter from the "chaplain" saying he had passed, enclosing a supposed prison death certificate.

[1] http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/10/proto-spam-spanish-pri...

EDIT: I found the transcript and have put a copy online here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dsb_Ss9dIRa8NvoAZ0W2FLi0...



Apparently another scammer, using the same pen-name told his 1905 victim he'd been scammed, and that he'd be laughed at if he went to the press or authoritiees:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D07E5D811...




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