'There seemed to be no doubt at all'

In the archives at Harvard, I discovered a short and simple letter from Abbot Lawrence Lowell, President of the University. It is addressed to an unknown Mr Jenkins, dated September 14,1927, and penned in his lucid, unhurried hand, some three weeks after the electrocution. It reads: 'There seemed to be no doubt at all. Any impartial person who read the whole evidence would, I think, reach the same conclusion.'