Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-08-12

ana Sam, to which Capt. Yates ahd Sheriff
Wsstfall was listening, and about which
both testified, Sam said to Knight, !" Bill.
what did you mean in your letter about get;
ting thnt fellows money in the gcntlemanly
manners" Knight rcplicd," Why, 4 imeant
to knock him on the head.H Sam said, show
much would you knock man on, the head
forg'' Knight replied: q, That depends on
how hard up was. II was damned hard
up Hwould d0,it for $500. If was not 80
hard up ! would do it for $780, But for
$4,000 i would send him to helv f,,.. ,.,..l
SO much for the case against Knight. Now
for The others. Since their arrest an inter.
view was allowed between Rorabachcr and
Pollard, and arrangements made to ovGrhear
their conversation. Captain Yates testified
to the following conversation. think can
give the exact words Of the testimony :4"I
heard Pollard say to Rorabacheer: Knight
has blowed on .is.' Rorabacher replied -
God damn knight, he never could be trust
ed Pollard said, We are sailed this time
Rorabacher cautioned Pollard about saying
anything 10 anybody" 15l he sFanis6a ST
Let mo say that Mr.. Marinus, one of. our
aud willscorroborate Capt. Yates, testimony
VII tttS pOiut WueU tfic SUSc CUNicS 10 tIlut.
Another conversation between Rosabachcr
and J. r. Jones, of Jessup, (who was arrest
ed with the prisoner, ,s,but subsequently re-.
leased was overheard by Captain, Yat, > and
Mr.. MSrinus, and testified to by Capt Yates.
1t was as follows, Rorabacher said TO Jones |:
I" Ten years of my lie is in your hands, and
now, Mr.. Jones, our business matters shall
be all right. II man stands up to me I
will stand up 10 him to the last dollar and to
the knife. But a man that betrays me, God
damn him, he might aswelhbe in hell first
as last" lie then said I" Jones, you make
out that staid with you that night at the
Falls g's Jones answered, "No, Mr.. Rora.
sbacher, you know didsnot see you that day
br that night, Rorabachor had previously
been overheard TO say that he could prove an
alibi by Jones, and only by him.
And now as to the defence The counsel
for the prisoners had tho cause adjourned
over all Friday afternoon for consultation
but came into court on Saturday morning
without apparently having been able to hit
upon any theory of defence, unless II was to
prove an alidi for Rorabacher, as the latter
had suggested to Jones in their interview
AT any rate they called Mr.. Jones, but he
swore word for word with Capt. Yates as to
the interview between Himself and Rorabach.
cr. He swore that Mr.. Rorabachcr did saw
10 him that ten years of bis life was in hil
(Jones's) hands. That he did say Mr..
Jones our business matters shall be al right"
That he did say "lfa man stands up to me
will stand up to him until the last dollar,
but if man bctrays me he might as well be
in he'll first as last" That he did, after this
promise and this threat, suggest that Jones
should swear that he was at Cedar Falls with
him, by observing: "Joncs, you make out
that staid with you that night at the Falls''
Aud he did swear that he answered Bora.
bacher, mo, Mr.. Rorabacher, you know
did not see YOU that day or that night. -
While The x!snsss was va. ssSasafyS saaa Sy RSfstseh
er 10 br0w-beat and influence him by frowns
and mods, an attempt SO palpable that sever
al noticed II, and the witness spoke of it,.
Rorabacher, cool, cautious, sharp, as he has
hitherto proven himself, could only have
thu. betrayed himself because of his depen
dence upon this witness. But the witness
failed hin, and the attempt at defence only
demonstrated the absolute certainty Of tbt
prisoners guilt. They also called sheriff
Wostfall to the stand, and he but corrobora
ted conclusivcly the testimony Of Captair
Yates These were the only witnesses fo'
the defence, and, MS we have said, they bu
fortified incontestibly tho evidencc of th
prosecution. The counsel for the defenc
did not even attempt a review of the testi
| niony, did not ask that the prisoners shoult
be discharged, but only discussed the ques
ton of bail sat tif. Pc 81 h92saa1 3Tsrl .t
Thus ended the examination. There wa
but a tthe of the evidence for the prosecution
brought forward, as it was deemed entirel,
unnecessary at this time. The detective {,
whom knight made all his disclosures wa
not examined at all, because no and Capt
Yates and Sheriff ,Westfall, admirably a
they have managed tho Job, would conside
the work but poorly done, should they "a
to get the money. TO accomplish this The
deem it essential that ''Sam" should not ste
all he knows" and SO he has told nothing.
We. have endeavored to give the pubic,th
features OF the case, as presented by the 70,
\ timony, and while we do not desire to prcjt
dice the case ofthe prisoners, we are free {
say that no. man who has heard the testimt
4 ny doubts for a moment, that they are th
men who robbed our county safe, nor is
probable that an honest jury would ask nor
testimony than was given on that cxamir,
ton to so decide. But such scoundres ger
orally have the means of defeating the enc
ofjusticc. They win make Immediate appl
cation to the District Judge for reductlo
ofbailsot tIfhthis IS granted they may be Z,
leased to buy. testimony, or to di9ppear.- =
4 They haye the privilege of q cbange6 Of venu
/. Of postponement for witnesses, DC, AM
i fighting us with our own n,orey, ihay worr