The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-03-19
WHERE Is SHE ?
A Woman in Search Of Her Fallen
Sister.

sinister, can you tell me where the hous
OF ill-fame is, in this city!"
Officer Murphy turned in astonishmenl
at the depot, this morning. and found tina
he was addressed BY . small,
DETERMINED LOOKING WOMAN, .,
who was leading BY the hand little rosy
checked girl about three years Of age.
Going with her to the ladies' waitin,
room, she told the officer her story and the
object OF her strange question.
Her name was Mrs. johnson, and heI
home was upon a farm . few miles from
Chicago. where she lived With her husband
Her parents. Mr.. and Mns. Smith, were aged
people, Who
LIVE IN CHICAGO.
She had IN unmarried sister, who now vas
in her seventeenth wear.
Her parents were poor, and . year and q
half ago her sister, then about fifteen, was
obliged to 60 out to service for her own sup
port. She became . waiter in q hotel or
boarding house, but she vas not there long
before she became acquainted with . fast
young man who gained her affections. At
last, about year ago, her destroyer induced
her to
RUN OFF WITH HIN.
promising to marry her ~ soon % they left
the city. She believed and trusted him
and It is unnecessary to say be deceived
and deserted her.
After her sister had hed the CITY. Mn.
JohnsIn used every effort to ascertain her
whereabouts, and BY some means learned
that she was in Sedalia. She came on here.
md searched without success, her sister
having changed her name. Disappointed
The returned home. A short time since shs
received
ANOTHER Clue
o her erring sister, and again il came from
Sedalia. She took the can and came on
'ere and searched again without success.
Then she went to Upton, California and
Jefferson City, but could find no trace Of
Ter, and returned to this point.
She said her sisters right name vas Ella
'mith. From her description of her, and
rom the resemblance between them, there
. no doubt but that
THE GIRL WHO WAS ARRESTED
bout couple Of weeks ago and locked up
D the calaboose ID the person she il IN quest
1. That girl vas known to the police o
Topsy," and to the Recorder she gave the |
sme Of Lille something, but il was . |
alse name. A BAzoo reporter interviewed |
er while she was under arreat, and she |
old him lo',g story about belonging up in
forth Missouri and running Of while she |
'as being sent TO the Columbia COLLEGE.
She came here from Moberly about Q |
ear ago. and became an inmate at
LIZZIE COOKS EsrABLlsHxrsr. |
Mn. johnson rem1rked to ri
'Azoo reporter this morning that she |
'ould just like to get hold Of the man Who |
IN OF with her sister.
"What would you do With him p asked
he reporter.
"oH, I'D-fD KILL mw
be kissed out savagely, 1t the came time
er eyes snapped like Goals Of 6re. Then.
wing away to her ieelisea, che burst into
food Of tean.
She vas told that It vs. thought that
fter her release the girl had gone to
rownsvilIe or Lexingtoo, and that she had
etter 80 there in case it va correctly asoer.
lined that she had left the city.
Nn. Johnson replied that she did not
ave money enough. - she had spent 20
'uch in travelling she lacked enough to
Ike her home. She said
HER HUSBAND
- also out searching for her sister. bot
Id gone IN another direction.
This va her story.