The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-09-18

An Old Man Mysterlously Disap-
pears Under Circumstances
Which Indicate Foul Play.

Schult, living near the Benton and Pettis
county line, stared in two-hOrse spring
wagon to visit . daughter living in Polk
county. lie loaded his wagon with peaches
and watermeIons to sell by the way, and for
this purpose proposed to 60 through Cole
Camp and Warsaw, in each of which places
he had business. He reached Cole Camp
all right, but left there in company
WITH TRAMP,
Who he consented should ride with hi as
far - Wansw. The next day, Wednesday,
. man passed through Clinton. driving a
team which answered to the one belonging
to Mr.. Schulz, but the old man was not with
it. On the contrary the driver is believed
to Be the tramp picked up At Cole Camp.
Mr.. Schult never reached Warsaw, and
nothing has been heard of him since. II is
believed that he has been
FOULLY DEALT WITH.
His con has started in pursuit and has one
directly to his sister's IN Polk county II
his inquiries there should result As it i,
feared they will, in the discovery that
that the old gentleman has not reached his
dsatination. he will endeavor to overtake
the wagon. the actions Of whose driver was
sf6cienfly singular to attract attention in
linton. At present the case is full Of sus-
icion and it il not improbable that
TERRIBLE CRIME
has been COMMITTED. The country is over
rum with v,gabonds ready to commit any
deed which promises them money or plum
der n ila reward. Unless Ii vagrant laws
are rigidly inforced aud an effort is made
TO suppress this growing evil Of idleness
and vagabondage, We will enter upon an
era of crime Of which murder and robbery
will be the conspicuous features.
The Wild Man Of the Woods on
His Travels.
1t is now in the neighborhood Of Mober-
y that the Wild man Of the woods can Ike
seen in all his startling grandeur with
glittering eyes, protruding eye-balls, and a
heard Which sweeps the ground, dressed in
hair, with an occasional rag for ornament.
II he has not been seen, he has been heard
from BY the Easerwi~-M Monitor, and at last
accounts was industrionsly engaged
IN CHASING WOMEN
and frightening children. He is repre-
sented a seven feet tall, has an arm as
muscular a burr oak, aud carries q club
Of the size and dimensions Of pile dri.
yer. He il . verit.ble demon of the viii
derneaa. and although he is NOT supposed to
Be acanni6al, and has never been known to
dine
ON SLAUGHTERED MEN
and women. 1t ls certain that he eats raw
roasting earx with avidity. lie was last
seen interviewing boy who had been sent
to recover = quilt which had been hung out
to dry in the bushes. He yelled at the
youngSter to drop that quilt, as he wanted
il to fold around him a. . sort of wood
land drapery and lie down
TO PLEASANT DREAMS.
The quilt. however. was required at
home, and the urchin chung to it with the
grim courage Of despair. carrying it away
in the face Of the ,haiied demon, who has
nothing nov to shield him from the inclem-
eat weather and the chill air Of night but
the leaves of the forest. This, however, is
not regarded - high toned proceeding in
that part Of the country. and the men are
preparing to organise
WILDMAN's HUNT,
and if that festive wanderer Of the forest
falls IN their way, he will be captured and
be compelled n explain with explicit
directness, and without circumlocution,
wherefore he dues thusly.