“Go ahead, Governor, open it,” Judge Magrath said. Then, like a man steeling himself to jump into freezing water, Pickens ripped into the letter “so nervously as almost to destroy it.” The men agreed that they would only open official mail and send all clearly private letters on to their destinations. Inadvertently, while opening an official-looking envelope, they intercepted a letter from Anderson to his wife, but promptly resealed it.
