The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-12-03
What Bafell q Handsome and 40
compllshed Girl.
MarrieO O Worthless Wretch and
Then Deserted By Hum.
Gives Birth to q Child Outdoors in
O Storm.
Imprisoned for Stealing and Re
claimed by Friends.

A week ago young woman, whose feat
ure- we're marked with sorrow, care and
shame, was taken out Of the Petiis County
jsil and sent to her friends. From out Of
the depth. of degradation she was snstched
a. brand from the burning, to be rein
stated In her home of wealth and refine
ment, and TO clasp the loving hands that
warm hearts had ouis,retched to save.
A WONDERFUL STORY
is that of Jennie Briggs-for that il her
maiden name-wonderful because Of her
rapid transition from a highly cultured,
beautiful young lady, to low, abandoned
outcast. But il has i,s moral, and there
fore We will tell il.
Jennie Briggs was made an orphan in
childhood, her parents dying ard leaving
her and an only sister alone in the world.
They we're people of means and respecta-
biliiy, and left their daughters some wealth
and property, which was placed in the
hands of a guardian, Mr.. ". Sherburne,
President Of the Usage Mining ard Smeit-
ing Works Co., of Carthage. This gen
tleman discharged his trust TO the best OF
his ability, and stood in the position OF
father to the orphaned girls.
Jennie was a very handsome and intelli-
gent girl. and after acquiring an ordinary
education was sent 20 q noted
FEMALE SEMINARY Is JACKSONVILLE,
Illinois, there to acquire finished educa-
ton and all the accomplishments that
adorn cultured womanhood. She learned
rapidly, and in time graduated with high
honors. She returned home q remarkably
handsome and accomplished young lady.
She was rather wild, it Is true, but this
her friends attributed to her Joyous TEN
permanent and natural fnn-loying propen-
sities; she was eccentric and romantic,
also but as at seventeen most young ladies
are prone to castle building and cratic
whim=, little was thought Of that, either.
A year ago last summer rhe determined
to 60 out into the world and learn some
thing of its way. that to her, in her seclu'
sion, had an lnGescribable charm from the
very reason that they were unknown. To
accomplish her object she determined to
adopt the profession Of school teacher,
to which her education, talents and &C
complishments veil qualified her. Pro-
vIded with literal sum OF money she lef,
her home in Carthage and went 10 Spring
field, Mo.
IN An EVIL HOUR
for her, while at Springfield, she formed
the acquaintance Of brick layer named
Trafford, who, If all reports are true. is 9
worthless wretch, without one single trait
of honor or decency, and to totally disrimi
lar in every respect to the fair young Cir
who became foolishly infatuated with him
From Springfield he went to Warrensburg
where she followed, and here on Thanks
giving day the MARI age ceremony was per
formed that united this iil.assorted couple
in bondage of woe misery, and disgrace.
Trafford came 10 Sedalia and vas EN-
ployei on the ID. II. Smith build
ing, last winter, and while he worket
here. they lived with a negro faasia.
in Darkeytown. When spring came Traf'
ford went Of and left her destitute. Shamet
and disgraced, she felt as if she had plaeet
an impenetrable barrier between herself
and respectability, and she lived around
among the colored people As best che coul d
hiding her disgrace among them and nevel
appearing in the city proper unless driver
BY some unavoidable necessity.
Last June Trafford returned and tool
her 10 Kansas City. Taere
! HE ABUSED HER OUrRAGEoUsLY,
although che was in a delicate condition
which only made her more helpless aRt
more completely at his mercy. Finally
one night Trsf1ord came to his house DRUM
and beat his wife and another woman s,
numerically that the police made descen
upon the place and arrested him. He va
heavily 6.,ed ard sent to the workhouse
Bereft Of all support she returned 10 Sc
dalia and again took up with the negrOe
in Darkeytown. As her confinement VA
approaching. she agreed 10 live with ant
take care of an old negro woman nance
Drake, who WAS sick, in return for which
she herself was 10 receive care and medica
attention when her expected ordeal shouls
arrive. But when the crisis came, the poo
thing was
INHUMANLY TURNED OFT Of DOORS.
On the 18th OF last July, chill, dismal
rainy day. she wandered into the LincolI
schooly ard, where she was seized with tn
pangs of labor. An old negro woman, VII,
lived close by, said she heard come on
grooming for come hours, but did not kno,
from whence the noise proceeded. Final!
she resolved to investigate the matter
Going into the schoolyard. she found thi
young girl, sitting upon the cold, We
ground, beneath IN Usage orange bush
holding little babe in her lap, with the
COLD RAIN BEATING DOWN
upon their unprotected bodies. chilling
them to the heart.
And this WAS the happy, cultured an
accomplished Jennie Briggs of a few month
before!
The city authorities we're informed Of III
occurrence, and the mother and babe yer
removed to boarding house. The pat
. ticulan Of the event we're published in Ii
: newspapers. and the Christian ladies Of on
city appealed to in behalf Of this unfortu
nate woman.