, 1860-06-06


On the evening Of the 4th ult., my attention
was called to an article in your issue of that
date. headed, "4Arrest Of a Suspicious Cattle
Dealer. If our venerable Chef Magistrate Of
this Commonwealth had been arraigned before
the Chicago bar for the same offense, l could
not have been more surprised than at the whole
tenor Of your editorial I hare no sympathy
with criminals, and could hare no possible mo-
tive to shield guilty man. depEeca.e most
heartily all efforts to defeat the ends OF Justice,
but my humanity would revolt ut the bare idea
OF standing tamely by without one efIoSt to res
cue from the clutches Of the law man whom
rerily believe - bo the victim Of base conspir
a:y. were brute indeed. If knowing France
Zoospower as well as think do, (you cal! him
Frank Bowers; his name. as near Us can pro-
nonnce it, is as above,) koowing his wife and
little girl, and that acquaintance having Extend
e4 over four years, il did not PIT forth one ef
fort to save family frtm worse than death.
Read the following facts, and judge for your
selves if | am not justified in addressing you
this article.
OTer four years ngo Zocspoxer commenced
supplying my family with milk. Lie had then
but recently settled down upon the rrairie half
mile west Of the Four Mile House. lie WIS
poor, possessing at most three or four cows,
and IN old horse and wagon, md pcddled his
tidy and industrious woman, helped hin, along
With her help aud Il little iaushter nine or ten
years of age, they literally dug their way
With his COWS, cutting hay, and garden pro.
duce. and that fruga'ity and indomitable perAe-
yeicnce which characterizes our German popu-
raising calves, poultry and pigs, making butter
and selling milk, he has in the course Of four
or fire years just begun to lire comfortably.
Being perhaps the only physician On his
"milk list" have been called scyerul times to
attend his family in sickness. hare bought
r.. 4.
ably known as much Of their real characters rs
anyone. During my acquaintance Of over fous
years their dealings With me llave been charac-
.terized by the most scfupulous integrity. There
is something in the very air aud ways and uIun-
ners Of d man that at once stamps him honest.
During tue past yenr I hare bean thrown in
contact with one or the other members Of
the family probably more than tfE times,
Myself and wife, almost every fair day, take
the direction Of bis house ID our drises out Of
town, and invariably stop for nifk, tn water iny
hurst. Ut TOT Vegetables, or 10 .set: 1ftus nuul-
dealings as uow charged, had been gong On, it
could not have escaped my attention. l have
bccn at his premises repeatedly at different
hours If tue day, in the morning anG ut ercn-
ing. I hnre ranged as 1pleased over bisgrounds,
in his cow.yurds, and stables have conrersed
With himself and wife about their prospects;
they haEe been free, open hearted, aud colnmu-
nicativc. and nerer has breath Of the suap,.
cious now charged, ever come to my knowledge.
More than this, hRve had several patients who
have been more workingmen, haYulakers, in his
employment, men who afterwards left him, and
no word OF suspicion was cver 1spcd by them.
Xoospawer is IN opeu-heasted, generous man.
one hour, without being convinced that there
must be some terrible mistake in this matter.
They hare m .envious neiglbor, Is uudcr-
stand from the family, whom Xoosp0wer has,
as we'll his wife, assisted in their distress aud
poverty. From some cause this neighbor has
turned their eucmy. The case you relate Of
the stealing u COW from q widow il,
l mast think, be great error. Eeurly
or quite eight months since, US my wife and my-
self were riding nver the prairie and when with
in half = mile OF Xoospower's, we saw one wo-
man and two men Irish as I afterwards learn)
hurriedly rushing COW over the ground and
across the railroadtrack. On stopping at Zoos
powers, we learned that these individuals had
entered Zoospower's premises. and without
process Of law, or any authority, rudely seized
upon an old COW. which they sHore was theirs,
md literally cudgeled nd drove her off. The
COW WAS offered, as found from III. Zooapow-
er, for sale to butcher by the persons who
but the COW from some delay in the Law, has to
this day been withheld, aud the case is yet in
litigation. 1t the time, Mrs. Zoospower was
enciente, and she wAs struck and shamsfulty
treated and threatened in the defence OF her
rights. Zoospower speaks very imperfect
English, Us docs his wife. He seems to be a
hard;working, Industrious man, and has pros
pered above some Of his neiebbors. Mav
there not be an envious combination of vi1lains
to ruin him. For myself, l would
to-day trust him with untold gold. There haye
been opportunities when he could, without risk,
have taken ths sdvantaee, but never has be at
tempted to cheat me to the value of pin. Sit
uated on The open prairie, many cattle congre-
gate around and about his premises. At one
time some sir got into his enciosdre, but not be-
ing sclaimed, were promptly advertised. and
were atterwards1 claimed. Zoospower once
came to me to know how he should advertise an
"Astray."
Ii Horsepower is rogue, let him be dealt
With rs the law directs; but, If m innocent man,
let him hare the benefit OF word in season
from those WHO know him. To-day drove out
to his house, not knowing that this thing had
transpired. Eyou had witnessed the tca's and
the anguish Of that mother and child, al alone,
and their only earthly protector rudely hand
cutfed aud torn AWAY from bis home. while they
remain in Ignorance Of his fate, but were con-
stautly scanning and gazing over the prairies
to catch, If possible, glimpse Of his return;
had Jou noticed for yourselves these workings
Of grief and the affection, you would have been
Obliged to draw largely upon your creduity to
hare seen in them nything Of guilt or the hid.
ing Of crimc-
God defend the right! JrsrlcE.
CHICAGO, June 4th, 1860.
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