Samuel Schultz Robbery Fraud 1871

SCHULTZ

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 7/29/2006 at 18:30:07

The Enterprise
Birmingham, Van Buren, Iowa
Saturday, January 28, 1871

We copy the following in regard to the robbery of Schultz from the Salem Register:

Some two weeks ago, a man named Samuel Schultz, reported that he had been robbed of thirty-two hundred dollars, on the Mount Pleasant road, near Oakland Mills. As soon as the matter was made known, some half dozen of our best citizens went immediately to work to find out who committed the robbery, and have labored night and day for a fortnight, leaving nothing unturned that would lead to any discovery of Schultz’s lost money. Money was raised to fray a small portion of the large expenses of our citizen- men left their businesses and went out in the cold and storm, laying out days and nights without food or sufficient clothing to keep them comfortable, and after all this trouble and excitement, find that Samuel Schultz robbed himself or he never lost a dollar! The matter is not yet ended by any means, but Schultz will be made to suffer the penalty, and without favor or any leniency whatever. The citizens of this community, Mr. Schultz will find, are not the kind of men to be tampered with in that kind of a manner-respect for old age in this case ceases to be a virtue. It is our wish and hope, that Mr. Schultz will, at once, justify the premeditated wrong done the citizens of this township without trouble, for if it comes to trouble, it will be serious on his part. God forbid and may that self-deluded old man view this matter in the light that he should, knowing himself to be the aggressor, and satisfy these men instantly.