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Tlie Stoteu Straps Agnin.Onr friend of the Herald has evi-dentlj fallen into bad hands. Some one has led him astray with a string of alleged facts that have no foundation in truth whatever;—not even the semblance of truth. We herewith state, as an absolute, undeniable fact, that the Btraps were stolen. With the same positive certainty we assert that the straps have not been found, and if any one in that neighborhood says they have recently been found at the residence of Joseph Cox, he not only states what is absolutely false, but what lie knows is false. On this point there is no middle-compromise ground; it is one of the falsehoods that contains not even a shadow of truth. The statement that James Hendricks took the straps to C. H. Cox’s house is also false. He lias just told the writer hereof that the straps were at the Sheets house when ho moved away from there, which statement is corroborated by the man that helped him move.Now for the facts: Several yearsago Joseph Cox bought the straps in question, a box to put them in, and a bier for use at tlie Sheets gravo yard. They were kept at the Sheets house and were always found ready for use up to tho time James Hendricks moved out and Josejfli Barton moved in. Not long.alter this when wanted they could not bo found. At a later date C. H. Cox, at tlie request of his father, went to the Sheets place to seo if tho straps could bo found. When h© arrived there Barton told him he had found the box. Upon opening the box there was in it a picco of strap four or live feet long; the balance was gone. C. H. Cox took tho box to his father’s, where it now is, containing tho piece of strap, just as when brought there. That is the truth in a nut shell, and all there is of it.A short time before tho first item was published in The Post, Walter Cox was in town one day, and was asked, in a jocose way, if ho took those straps. Ho laughingly parried the joke, and in answer to further questions, said he had not oven a suspicion as to-who took them. Inside of an hour after that tlie item was written, and tho name of Joseph Barton had never been mentioned in connection with it, and was 110 more intondcd as a rejection on him than on the man in tho moon. A few days after this quite a number of the neighbors met to make repairs at tlie grave yard, Walter and Barton among thorn. Just before they loft* Walter, in his customary joking way, said something about Barton taking the straps. It was said in a joke and looked upon as such, and afterwards when Barton saw The Post item and went and asked Walter if ho intended anv rejection in his remark at tho gravo yard, bo replied instantly, “Why certainly not. I was only joking.” This ought to have satisfied any man, and why it did not satisfy Barton is the greatest mystery in the whole business. The story about wanting to tako posts I lack homo is all bosh—too nonsensical for notice, and instead of the Cox turnip seeking a settlement with Barton, the latter has made various threats of what he would do unloss Walter caused a retraction of The Post item, but he lias no retraction of the kind to make and is not of the class that waves a white Hag. The remark by Walter toHuvfnn in ninvA rv fhnn
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Wyoming Post
Wyoming, Illinois, US
Thu, May 03, 1883
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