Today in Keys History

A National Airlines plane at Key West International Airport around 1950.

 Photo provided by Monroe County Library

1905: Sheriff Frank Knight took Simon Reyes to the state prison. Reyes had been found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend and was sentenced to hang but the governor commuted his sentence to life.

1926: Governor John W. Martin announced that Chief of Police Cleveland Niles was appointed sheriff of Monroe County to fill the unexpired term of the late Sheriff Roland Curry. Mayor Leslie Curry appointed Ivan Elwood to replace Chief Niles.

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