The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-09-10
TIProN, IOWA, SEPTEMBER 10, 1863.

'A\s M y" IA 1AA A00AOIA
not only IN the local rpers, but over
the country. q: n.
Mr.. b., the unfortunatS loser, and his
partner 1t once suspected land - did al
other persons) Mr.. L., wlD received the
valise from the baggaef fmasser at c.,
and procured his indict(nent In the G.
county court, where IT, unfortunate
man, in spite Of all his trotestations Of
Innocence, aud the abse4ce Of any posi-
tive proof beyond whist las been men.
toned In this article, w4 put on trial,
and convicted of the crilne Of stealing
that money. I ann told = was sentenc-
ed for term of years = the penitentia-
ry; but new trial was fanted on the
ground of some alleged iaformality, and
theh the accused barely escaped convic-
ton. Az my Informant says, the gates
Of the state prison turned on their hing.
es to receive the alleged culprit.
He was at last acquitted; but In his
defense he had spent oil his property
not large property, but his oil. Ht.
brother, sympathislng with him, spent
all his property In the same disastrous
suit. These two men were financially
ruined; and the worst Of It was that, al.
though Mr.. L. at this sacrifice was le-
gaily acquitted, he was still held respon-
sible fos the crime by tho public. fin.
nocent, the case was to him peculiarly
hard.
After that trial was thus endetl, then
the partner of Mr.. b., who lost the
money, brought suit against Aim to re.
cover half Of the lost money; t,e ground
Of the suit being that he had dishonesty
and fraudalently secreted the money,
for the purpose Of injuring hh partner
and creditors. Mr.. B. on the trial of the
suit was acquitted by the jury: but the
loss of the money, and his heavy expen.
ses in looking for it and defending him
self before the court, bankruped him,
rs am told. So that at least three we'll
to do men were thus far financially ru-
ined by this mysterious robbery.
Meanwhile, the baggage .master who
had charge of the bag, and delivered 1t
to Mr.. l.. at c., was SO distressed aud
troubled at the suspicious whch point.
ed in some measure at him, that he, be
ing naturally not very strong minded,
succumbed, either to this pressure or
some other, aud became partially crazy,
and is said to be SO still.
After the suit OF Mr.. BIS partner
against him terminated, the two part
ners brought suit against the railroad
company to recover the money, because
their cars carried the valise TO L., their
officer took it from the cars at l.. in the
Presence of other employees Of the road,
examined it, aud found the money safe,
kept the valise in the co,nmny's office,
and then returned it to C. by their own
baggage master. This suit was pending
until within a few weeks; and it was not
unlikely the company would have lost
1t had 1t come to trial. In addition to
all these direct and positive evils may be
mentioned the large costs entailed on
two counties in the trial Of the suits,
and the untold bitterness and feuds
which distracted whole districts, espe.
cially in c. county; and thus far all to no
purpose.
am now to relate . fact which illus
trates psychological theory as held by
leibtitz aud expounded by Sir William
Hamilton, in the discussion of the ques-
ton, us the mind ever unconsciously
modilied?" A question answered In
the affirmative by Hamilton. aud gene
rally believed by metaphy ysicians. His
illustration is something like this. You
think of A. and instantly c comes up in
consciousness-not because A. called up
c directly, but because A was associated
with b, which did not come up in con-
sciousness at all, and C was also associ-
ated with b; SO that the mind was un-
consciously modified by b SO far as that
it linked A to G without its own pres
ence being seen or known. This theory
receives a striking confirmation in the
development of this singular chapter Of
, crime.
have said that Mr. X. opened the va.
lise in the presence Of three other men,
and in their presence restored the pack.
ages to the valise and did with the valise
as already described. Repeatedly these
four men-all Of thein reliable men
have been before the courts to state un.
der oath all they knew about the trans
action. No doubt fifty times, il MOI
double that, they have been asked b,
the lawyers for the prosecution and tn.
defense "Was anybody else presen,
when the bag was examined in the rail
road Officer" Aud all of them have a,
often declared that. to the best of theil
knowledge, no one else was present.
Not the least positive on this poinl
was Mr.. X. himself, whose reputation /.
first rate. And so the matter has gone
on for nearly three yoars. Meanwhile
every man known to have been in any
way associated with that valise from
the time Mr.. B. left it in the cars until