Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-03-25
Ihc Grnnd.y Center lsoD-
berry.

uc "FUHuy Ientcf ROBBERY, q luil
sccount Of which we published a
short time since, il still fresh in the
minds of our readers The fact that
the editor of the atlas aud his EN-.
ployes were arrested and discharged,
will also be remembered. We gave
the version of the atlas. man, with
out note or comment, so far as charg-
ing the guilt on any one was con
ctrned. Mr.. Shaw hasn't allowed II
week to pass, from the time of the
robbery till now, without his columns
teeming with the most indiscrimin-
ate abuse OF some citizen or citizens
of Grundy. Not content with his
own slanderOus assaults, he has in
voked the aid of the Marshall Times.
aud the twain have ransack ed the
entire volume Of hillingsgate for
words to vent their spite upon the in
hahitants Of that lurkleSs town.
As soon as Mr.. Shaw was arrested,
he wrote us, politely asking TIC not To
mention the affair. aud IA accordance
with that request, We have passed
the matter 10y until now, aud should
have let it rest for all time to come,
had Mr.. Shaw not villifird the char
arter of the people of Grundy Ivy
calling them "assa>sins "vaga.
bonds" "savages," "cannibnls,"
"loafers," Villains" and other cpl
thtt tho numerous to mention. He
has supreme charge and control of
his atlas columns, and seems deter
mined To Use them to hurl his anath.
elnas ut the people with very little
regard to whether they deserve them
ornot. Now we don't know whether
Mr. Shaw is guilty or nut-we did
not see him steal the money. We
don't kh0W that he got tive proha-
hly never snail. But we must frank
~ confess that there Were circum.
stances attending the affair, that in
our mind fully justified the people
of Grunhy Center in investigating it,.
Let us look at Il few facts In the
case. 1t was very late hour of the
night when he and his hands quit
work. He says he went to bed about
one o'clock, aud his hands about two
.p'cl1Ck. OF course it so happened"
The only houses in the village that
were riflpd, were the one in which
he boarded, and Tie other where
his hands boarded. IL merely hap.
peneP" SO. 1t also "hdppcned that
Hyde Brothers, sleeping in the same
room with him, lost nearly S4o0in cash
and II watch worth 500, while his
m0ney ami watch were left. Passing
strange, and yet IT, SO "hdppened -
Another singular circumstance was,
that one of his supposed accomplices
failed To take his cousins l'ncket'
book, but managed To get the pocket.
books of three other men. sleeping in
tAe same room. Strange! hut true,
for so il "happc"ed." 1t is also Il
little mysterious that 10y intuition Mr..
Shaw should be 80 we'll posted about
the robbery, that he could go irnne-
dGateiy To his office uhd rrite and set
up az Extra" without max ing
more inquiries than it is said he did.
But surely IL "hdpPenctt' on this
wise. Men have been hung up aud
chOked to death for murder, when
the circumstantial evidence of muir
der was but little stronger than the
circum+tantial evidence of bur- larry
was against Mr.. Shaw and kis boys.
And yet we DO not say that Mr.. =. il
guilty. not by amy means, for we did
not see him take the vi,luuhles. Bot
We ito say that, in our opinion, IL
will be ii hard job for Mr.. Shaw IL
remove suspicious OF his guilt from
the minds OF soue of he citizens al
G.undy Center. Ii they entertain
thenI honestly; as they doubtless do,
they can't he rubbed out with wnoie-
sale vituperutI"n, aud dung heap
rhetoric.
lie mAniFests good deal Of injured
Innocence, and every editorial con.
ceruing the robbery, shows that he
puts high estimate on his christian
aud journalistic character. This is
right, for if he don't think we'll oi
himself his character Will certain y
suffer, so far AZ Iowa Is concrrned.-
But we, personality, don't care any
thing about the matter, and only say
what we have said, in order that
people may have both sides of the
story. For there are e rtainly two
sides to it.