Reward for evidence leading to Conviction...


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Posted by Ed Kiser on August 15, 2004 at 05:48:11 from 64.12.116.73 user Kisered.

In BIG SIX, there was a notice posted on the Horning staithe, offering a REWARD to anyone offering evidence leading to the CONVICTION of those persons responsible for the theft of the shackels. Upon reading this notice, Dorothea commented:

"And won't it be a sell for everybody if the Coot Club gets the reward?"

It appears that in the final results, we see out friends the Coots denied this reward, because although they brought that infamous photo of the guily pair pushing off the Cachalot, and thus being very strong evidence of the guilt, and even when confronted with this, they admitted to having hidden the remaining parcel of shackels, which certainly incriminates them as being guily of that crime, and yet, because they were not actually CONVICTED in a Court of Law, no reward was paid.

The authorities were so ready to "take out summons" against the Coots, yet when the facts were known, such strong action was not taken. Instead the bad guys had to write a letter. Wow - how about that for severity of punishment? Wonder if they ever did write that little document?

The reward would have been at least a partial compensation to the harrassment and slander that they had endured.

It must be admitted however that the efforts of the Coot Club to find the truth in the matter was not driven by the desire to earn any reward, but merely to clear their own names and reputations. This they were able to accomplish, in spite of the many efforts of the rest of the community to accept their guilt as they were led astray by the deceivers.

So their reward was the return of the respect of the community. But it would have been nice, if only they could have had that other monetary kind of reward.

One can only hope that all those good citizens that heard all the bad stuff about the Coots also managed to hear to final results absolving them. But was there any small bit of damage possibly remaining? People tend to remember the "juicy stuff", and to forget the good news.

It was Shakespeare that noted this difference:

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar."

Let it not be so with our dear friends, the Coots...

Ed Kiser, South Florida


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