The fonds consists of four photographs of the South Slope School and students taken during Doris Tansem’s time teaching in 1945-46; weekly issues of the Wanhamite, a community newspaper written by Wally Tansem and Lawrence Laughy; printed material authored by Wally Tansem; 20 aerial photographs of the Lassiter area north of Wanham; some news clippings; and Wally’s research files for his self-published book “Foulest of Murders”.
This file contains a copy of a Warrant to Summon a Jury for June 24, 1918; photocopies of newspaper articles; a copy of the typed statements of Dr. Conroy from the postmortem of Joseph and Stanley Snyder; copies of various crime reports and a report from Elock; copies of correspondence; pages from the “Foulest of Murders” manuscript; and a photocopy of a chapter about the 1918 murders from an unidentified book.