The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-08-01
These Three Influences CONFINED
Will Play the Deuce With
Most Any Mortal Man.
Especially If He be at all inclined to
Listen to The Fascinating In
ducemsnts Offered by
Them.
The History, In one Chapter, of an
Individual who Courted all
Three and has Conse.
quently Skipped.
From Saturday Mornings Daly.l

lFtohh soatuludy ia ~
no LONGER MYSTERIOUS.
The cloud of mystery which at first sur
rounded the disappearance of the man Wen
dell: has been brushed away, and his alb
hence Is no longer unaccounted for. lester-
day morning was published a short item
from the Atc5ison Champion TO the effect that
Wendell had been hearu from, being in Chi
cago at the date the letter was written; he
mentioned city being the same Town to which
ile had .'come TO stay" a year or more pre-
yious; he was going into business In Phila.
deiphis or New York, and would never come
back to see us any more When Wendell
nrst began TO turn up missing, and when his
friends were so anxious TO learn OF his where
been possible that he had been prostrated by
the heat in the Sodom of the West-St. Louis,
the circulated stories TO the enecQthat he
had at one time suffered from coup dc soteit
lending . color of truth TO the report, but as
his name did not appear among
TIE LIST OF CASUALTIES
IN tina: city. as he had neither been seen nor
heard Of during his sojourn there-if lac So
journed there at all, which isn't probable
belief in that tale died out, and az he contin-
ued 10 be absent interest In the matter began
TO wane, and IL Is only the occasional man
you now meet, who indulges In the inferrog-
his own paper, the one started by him, and OF
which, until the latter part OF June or the
first OF July, he was business n anager, has
CEASED TO MAKE INQUIRIES
in regard 10 him In suspicious In itsef, and
his disappearance, coming 80 close upon the
taking down OF his name from the head OF
Its columns, would seem 70 Indicate that
while he had .'come TO stay" he had finally
concluded TO leave the sphere OF usefulness
embraced within the limits OF
THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE METROPOLIS,
IL being too contracted for his Wide scope OF
vision and ability TO do good. His father-in-
Law, DIR. Horn, now editor and proprietor of
the paper Wendell started, says the reason
the Of thu. latter taken down from
the head Of the columns as business manager,
was because Ferd gambled, and as the news
marks upon the subject, Wendell thought it
best to take the name down, as the talk
about him might then be stopped; and Ir.
Horn says, also. that IL Is probable some OF
The same.
TALE WITH A MORAL.
A few years go, and not SO many either,
Wendell was worth some money and pro-
perty those more emphatic and inclined TO
exaggefate placing IL at S25,U0: Others, not
50 Atchi-onian in theirstatements, making 1t
formed, place il At from S, ,ooo to $1,000, with
the probabilities largely in favor OF the
former figures. This was while Wendell
the Champion, and il WAS in the railroad
center that he lost it all. Wine, women and
cards became his constant companions, and
the end was but the natural one, conse-
quent upon keeping company too closely
with these most dangerous, perfidious and
fascinating of friends. He gradually lost
the respect of friends and associates; the
bibbler at the cup could not always main
tain the confidence OF business men the
constant frequenter OF houses Of prostitution
and one intimate with harlots could not
long expect
THE RECOGNITION OF EQUALITY
by the respectable and honorable portion of
n community and one who spent his spare
with drunken companions or keeping COM
pany with women of loose character, coul
not hope to win an unblemisbed name.
soons ms and an the sifded palaces Of 81 SIN where the
Cyprian holds forth and where
VIRTUE IS AT A DISCOUNT;
whole town knew ali about it the fact that
his wife had more than once secured the
kind offices Of q friend TO induce him to leave
persuade him to come home after a night
spent In the unholy embraces OF a lewd wo-
man, created q sentiment against him in
his subsequent career In Leavenworth, de-
scending TO even depth where even gam.
bling houses
SHUT THEIR DOORS AGAINST HIM,
that which Cain was doomed to wear, and
which closed the gates society against him. His
associates and companions here were inhabit-
ison, the only difference being that they toll
Grated hIm there, while they did but partially
80 here. Wendell's career here was q short
one, having a nit ending in the mode and
MANNER OF HIS DEPARTURE,
and the circulation of stories tending to Gre
ate the impression that he had either been
fouliy dealt with or met with some accident
were but for the purpose Of covering up the
real truth OF the matter, which has al last
been brought TO light, AS he did not have
money enough with him when he left TO JUS
tify the former, and he was entirely too well
to abundantly take care Of himself At the
present time no one believes otherwise than
that
HE Is ALIVE AND WELL,
and that Ia leaving he has simply seen 1T to
transfer himself to some more congenial
C ime, where he can the more freely disport
himself in the qualification of those eccentric
titles which 80 prominently distinguished him
both while Q resident of this city and the vii
lage lying contiguous TO the freight depot of
the Central Rranch