Year: 1877

Scb OOul ldtHCi iuUO Sdudud, anu iiO
must go there" Finally he said he
would go up to ColebroOk himself and
advise him to go to Canada. That he
could not get boarded there, if they
knew who he was, and he must after
getting into Canada, feign sick or have
a fit, just as he was passing some house,
and then they would take him in and
would have to keep him.


He (Shaw) said, people would under
stand he was going to GrovetOn to settle
claim, but his real business was to
get father into Canada and to have him
stay there. He said, "you notice l
have long head; plan good many
of these things" and then went on to
speak of several here who did about as
he said. Mr.. Shaw said, 81 am going


to tell your father to tell me just the
truth about the Green and Bullard mat


ter and others, for me and no one else,


and then tell me another story for me


to tell the public"


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convince me that everything was true


about my father, and that no one here


would believe or assist him, and that


he had better be kept away. Among


other things he took occasion to say,


that at one time he was drawn as a
Juror and requested to be excused, but


Judge Ross asked him to sit, but if he


had objected that Judge Ross would


have let him off without a word, and


added: 81 want you to understand


there are but a few men in this place


whom George S. Shaw has not got a


hold on.n l know not why he said this


unless to lead me to think he could hold


Judge Ross against any one, if he wish


ed. He spoke oftrying the insane dodge,


and taking father to the insane asylum,
until things were fixed up but l made


no approval to such move. Mr. Shaw


then spoke of my sisters piano, and
) said no one could take it on fathers


debts.


Just before left, Mr.. Shaw said there
was some talk on the street about my
, connection with fathers business, and


that some said l would be discharged
from my position, and that it was re-
ported in adjoining towns, that l was
already discharged. This was the frs
l knew of any such report. l felt ne
alarm about the matter, because | knew
| was not mixed up in the matter al
reported; and l told Mr.. Shaw l wa
satisfied l could explain it satisfactorily
to my employers, and he said, eyes
l you had better tell them what yOl
know about matters, and that will MAKE
S it all right for YOU" am sure tha
t Mr.. Shaw has since told came to hin
0 of my own accord, and was very ex
n cited for feaI 1 would lose my position
: and asked him what to do, ETC.; bu
n such statement is false. He sent fO
: me in great hurry, and | should no
d have gone to him if he had not.


A short time after that, some days
e l can't say how long, Mr.. Shaw came t
u the office in great hurry. and callin
p me aside said, "The devil is to pay o
$ the street, and that piano will be at
II tached in half an hour; but | can fix
IS for you and your sister," told him
u thought they could not take it, but h
: said, ''Well they can, and T. c. Fletche
a is all ready with the papers to take i
. but you get Sarah to make it over
y me right off, and l can save it for he
- But YOU must do it right off-and wi
l. save her from all trouble and she ca
7. have her piano again" And withOr
IL consulting with any one, told him
" that was the case / would give him
1t line to sister to make it over to hin
He then said, 81 don't want it mad
II to me, but make it over to me as specii
Ol agent of Continental ms. Co., as the
" have a claim against your father
lie $500 or 5000, and it is a preferre
X claim, and they are little ugly, and
III is the only way of saving your faith
I'll from arrest.n I thought strange of tina
IL after his plan to help Sarah keep Il
piano, but he said he would not attaC


the piano himself, but in this way


would keep others from it, and keep


all right for my sister. | finally ga


him line to sister, that perhaps 81
m had better do as he said. The resu


was he moved the piano within an hou


and when | learned at noon that he
. no one else could hold it, | went to
T house and asked him to give me
,, writing that my sister could have &


piano back. He declined giving al
-. writing at all, but said it's all rigl
~ Before night heard of his bOasting
~ the hotel how he had got the piano in
IN his hands as he said he would.


~ My object in making this stateme


=. as my father desired, is to show what
~ ~ feel was a plan of Mr.. Shaw to get Il
- father away and get the business aga
-, into his hands, regardless of the co
y sequences to father; and also to she
IA Shaw's fraudulent tricks to get my S
\ ter's piano away from her. The falls
- hoods that he told me are such as
80 place him beneath my respect, or n
:. tice even. feel that the public Oug


-. to know in some way what part N
~, George S. Shaw has had in this matt'
-. and if my father is suffering for t
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