Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-03
A villainous Canard.


We copy from the Dubuque Times Of
this morning, tho following letter and
comments upon it, affecting the good name
of olfe Of our best citizens, now absent
from home. As we cannot more clearly
state the facts in the case, or more pun
gently characterize the villiany of the au-
thor of the SANDER, than has the Times in
the comments below, we submit it with
out addition: as
s8Fs3 i.ie WATERLOO, Iowa, June, %, 1874.
EDITOR Dusu2uE TINES DEAR slR;--I was in
formed by Mr. Rhorabacher a few days ago that
he received letter from his brother. Christ Rhor-
abacher. wherein he stated that Mr.. Older, the
well known circus man, had died in Kansas. and
on his death bed confessed that he and man BY
the name OF Black. had robbed the buchanan,
county treasury u all its funds by blowing the
safe open. and that G.. Khorabacher had nothing
to do with the same whatever. The latter It will
be remembered, was arrested aud kept in jail for
one year, under the charge of the above crime
and finally was sentenced by the District court at
Waveriy. to ten years imprisonment. and after
-FOUR years petition for his release was signed by
all the county officers Of Buchanan county. they
believing that he was not the person who commit
SAID robbery, and was finally released by the Gov
chanan county for $50 900 damages for false inn
prisonment. / hope that this dark story will be
truly ventilated, as our people anxious to know
the exact facts i'll the case. JUSTICE.
If Christ Rohrabacher has caused any such re-
pert to be put in circulation he is but intensfyiug
the general conviction Of his scoundrelism.
P. A. Older, the well known Snowman. is man
OF unsullied reputation, at whose door no charge
of dishonesty was ever laid. He has not been in
Kansas for a year. is alive and well, and Is now
travelling with his show in Texas and the South
He Of course made no such confession as is at
tributed to him. At the time Of the robbery he
was in the East and had not been in Independence
for weeks, and was not there we believe for weeks
after. The man Black, alluded to- was Fclker.
the Chicago detective, who was employed in the
case by Capt. Yates, the well known detective
into whose hands the county authorities placed
its management He entrapped Knight Rohra-
bachers partner in the Buchanan county robbery
into confession, that was heard by other parties
and into an attempt upon the Scott county safe,
demonstrating that he thief. Rohrabacher
was fairly convicted by jury in Bremen county
and his pardon has always been an incomprehen-
sible affair. Not one Of the Buchanan county
officers ever signed paper asking for his release.
and though the legislature was in session at the
time, Governor Merrill signed the pardon without
bringing the matter to the attention of either the
Senator or Representative from Buchanan. then
in the city, nor did he ever consult the Buchanan
county authorities upon the subject Nor was
there presented to him particle of testimony to
prove that the jury and the court erred in the con-
viction. Rohrabacher's reputation in Kansas. az
exhibited in the York Pomeroy case, is sufficiently
odorous to make it evident that he is not the abus
edinnocent he pretends to be. and now that he
has put afloat such avillainous statement as the
above. no one doubts that he was scoundrel
enough to do what an impartial jury convicted
him Of doing.