The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-08-14

Itch bv the side Of the NJ. X. K T. railrosd
lra.k in Vernon county. She had been
fer a week al least when the accident
n discovery Of her body Vas made. II wss
in lonely syot, more than mile from any
house. and near tie center If thick patch
ii prairie hazel. The body revealed
MARKS az VIOLENCE,
and although the hands we're swollen and
disfigu,d, il Was evident that they were |
unused 10 toll. TIE small and delicate ieei !
were clad IN fine hose and costly CATERS
The remnants ii linen left On the form which |
in outline and symmetry Disclosed traces
Of remarkable beauty, was only such "a l.
worn by persons Of fortune or those who
minslc in fashionable society. Near by the
shallow gave was IN old silk dress tramp
led In the mud and torn aud wet. In the soii
brown hair. unusually long and luxuria"i,
was a torioise shell comb, and extending
over the head from the left car was gash
such A. some blunt instrument might have
produced-poS>ibly
HEAVY BLOW
from 4 club. The face of the girl, although,
bruised and battered, was unusually pretty
and engaging. and the rough men ~ho stood
around and looked at il, felt the tears start
IN their eyes AID their hearts stir with
nameI.r- pity. These We're the facts con-
nec,ed with the discovery al the homicide.
There was nothing found which could i,lcn-
,ify the bdy or clear away the mystery
of the lonely death of one both yourg and
beautiful Oi course there were many conjec-
lures. and theories alike strange and rea-
sonable were advanced in vain effort t.
SOLVE THE MYSTERY.
These were all published 10y the B.zoo nj
the time, but they lc,i to nothing, AMI the
story of the numbered girl nj Eachnan's
farm after beins a nine days wonder. passed
cut of mems Thoughts and feelings, AMI the
muiila,ed body "f the nan,ele~s dead was
restored to lis deSolaie grave. but like the
ripple which starts from 4 central point "n
the water and hurries away with the ssiiai-
ed current far beyond the p'.cr al its start
ing, so the news Of this tragedy spread
abroad in the land, and upon one heart AT
least il fell with an an:uish
PksTIIAR AND INTENSE.
Two y~srs ago the Young dang hter al Mr..
Rachel king. living ia Floyd county, In
diana, SIX miles from New Alba, y de,i from
her home aud entered upon evil c"urses IN
Cincinnati. The impelling caunes, il is
b,arl.s s. e. rsci,e. Ii will suffice la say that
she MS we'll educated, refined ani beanii
! ful, and but for ..ne false step might have
lived = life of happiness and honor. Short
Is after going Co Cincinnati, Lnly King i-il
in With Thomas Willis, n commercial tray
el~r If the large hardware house I'll \. T..
Eglesi"n n To-, and h%ing mutually infain-
aie.i they Travelled over the country ioseil-
er. Mailing of particular incident occurred
in these wa"l-rinss until i" February last,
a nai>rntle,st,n caused 4 separation and
THE YOUNG GIRL
went 10 live in fashionable bagnio in ST
Louis kept 10y woman named he Bar.
Here again she Mas suLes quntly found BY
and reluctant acqnie-cenre an hers they left
ST. Louis together for a trip 10 the West
The precise date at which this reconeilia
li"n begun is not definitely known, but late
in the spring Mrs. King picked up a Louis
willie paper which contained an account o
the Hachman Farm tragedy. and after read
ing it declared with instructive prenoni,io'
that the numbered RI
WAS HER DAUGHTER.
In Justification Of this suspicion, she pro
,duced a letter written in March last, AID
dated in St. Louis. in which her daughter
said, that il would never do for her 10 come
home; that her life was evil and that she
must lead il to the end that she had made
up with her old lover, and was going away
with him again; "bnt am afraid al him,
the letter continued, "and some day he'll
put me out of the way, for I know that OF
him. which would put him in the !~nire"
tiary. He'll kill me II don't go with him
and Pm afraid he will il I do. Perhaps i
would he just as we'll, let il end as il sill.
Satisfied that the mystery involved hel
daughter, Mrs. King still
CHING To HOPE,
and had inserted in papers far and vide III,
fol Lowing personal:
LILLY KING,
Born near New Albany, Ind. Whereve
, she is. let her write to her distracted mother
This paragraph Was inserted in nearly al
Of the papers in the large cities in the conn
. try, and Mrs. King wrote personally to al
of her daughters atquaintances no for a
she knew them. But the advertisement
ELECTED no reply aaI the letters brough
only negative answers. The last heard o
the girl, she vas going West with
HER DREADED COMPANION.
What intensufied the mothers apprehension
ia. the fac, that up to that time her way
ward girl had never failed % write, and
tell her of her shcreabouis. Steepet
in sin-,iebased and forsaken by the world
her unhoIy life Was whi;enrd hy singl
virtue her love for her mother. Dis
graced and ruined and carrying the burdel
of life 81 shame
| THE SOCIAL OUTCASr
still turhed IN the gray haired parent wh
sorrowed ~ only = mother can for
daughters wreck. and sent daily and night
ly prayers on her wande ring way.
, Departing in ascertainins the truth ii
any other way. Mrs. King At last determin
ed ON emplnying 4 detectixe and 10 tia