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Show Sui.vks of Injustice. ivii.T LiKt: City, Jan, 10, '79. Editor Herald: In your locl columns of this morning morn-ing appears au item under the head ing "Smacks of Theft," in which, after giving an account of the loss of some money by Nicholas Nattress, aaid to have been $So, and the return to him, through an old man living in j It Lie neiguuriiooa wserw tue money lost, of the handkerchief in .which the money was tied, but con-lalmrrit-ouly $60. saying that be had found it lying oenr the place where the mattress, in which the money was hiil. had hepn finintied. vou sav 'aa the handkerchief originally contained $S5, and a3 a thorough Beared was made for the money in the mattress and straw, and abjut the place where tue straw whs emptied, it looks &s though the old man, in returning the incomplete amount, bad given himself him-self away." Now, ibis may be all very clear to the writer of this article, tut I conies I cannot see it. If the o d man were dishonest enough to ileal ?25 of Nick Naitress' money be would have been dishonest enough not to return him the $60, and the supposition that this man took the money is not well founded. Had your local takeo the pains to inquire into the character of the "old man," I do not believe he would have written as he did, and although no name was mentioned in the paragraph, there are numbers who know who the "old man" is, and f think, 60 far, you have injured a highly respectable, honest, hardworking hard-working mau. The writer of this 'has no interest in the parties, but regrets re-grets to see the Herald "getting ofi wrong" and accusing a man of crime upon the mere supposition of unreliable unre-liable persons, which smackB very much of injustice. Fairplay. Inquiry proves (hat the above article ia merited. The old gentleman gentle-man who harjded the puree to Nat-tress Nat-tress found it lying under the itraw as he had stated. The etraw was lying where it had been emptied, and the gentleman took an armful to put in a pig pen. He had picked up a second armful when he bsw a handkerchief hand-kerchief lying on the ground. He immediately dropped the straw and, before he touched the handkerchief, called some of his neighbors to the! spot, and showed it to them lying where he first saw it. A lady picked it up, untied the handkerchief, and on counting the money found that there was $60 in greenbacks, gold and silver, and this was the amount given to Nattreaa by the old gentleman, gentle-man, who bears an exceptionally good reputation among those best acquainted ac-quainted with him. |