The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-07-02
LED ASTRAY.
A Long Chase After q Wild Little
Girl from Bates County.
She Visits sedalia With an Escort.

About two we.ks ago the strange ar;ioE
81 ycnng girl and her escort drsS ~. Al
ieniion Of ,~O rel.ori-r- ii The S--ia!ir PRESS
The loving twain were pa; u.'l-I r-pi"nsg'
which only revealed the fact iha, they w-r,
a runaway couple, a.d tina. ih- girl had
considerable more get up-aI.i get" IN heel
than the ,ian in her COMPANY. Tn-y were
here but day or t~", ~l.en they di-,p-
rared. The following, Ia an ih- k.n-,
CITY Ti",es. explains the matter
4 Romantic Young ciri. the daughter of a
Bates County iaTn.-r, named >huhrI;, Is
giving h-r iri-,,d- a Wild ans! Icn.i hy ci,a-.
through the Western Siai.-. \ party oi
her friends arrived ia this city Yesterday,
and at cnce applied to li.e C!..ei I'll Police
TO obtain assistance ~ Gsclai.n:Ii. the girl.
Ii Is stated that Matte SLIlert LETT her
parents home, five miles east al Butler, ia.
Bales County, about iav weeks .g.. She
Ieii ia tie company 81 her lover. n yUun:
man named George Henry. wh" acr,nnpa-
niei her To raiiIosd ,oxE twenty miles
from her home. T:,cIv iLs Two parted. the
giri going east, tie young man re.uraiag
home - n Z" sy,,.d Suspicion The wan
dcrings and adventures Of 'hi. girl, who Is
only fifteen years old, ~-I- remarkable.
She "a. wiih"n; IioI-v ai.'i ,,li D." clothing
with Ter excep, what -n- wuI-. Sine went
To Clinton ia Henry county, aad fr"m
there sine made h-r Nay &" Svsi.liI wi!-ie
-he remained day or iSO.
She next app aI-.i in ~. i~.ui- where ia.
obtained boarding ia a private hua-~. i.ui
did mol remsin ihsrc long. fearing that her
parents would fiIi L,r. She changed hvI
boarding house three times ia ~. L",;>. anh
during all this ti..e Appeared {" he alone.
One evening a stranger arrived on the Mi--
sour Pacific evening train, and called upon
Miss Shuhcrt. IL Is SUPPOSED from . he de-
-cription given that this stranger wa> the
girl. lover from Bi,e- county. They went
away enc hour after his arrival, aud were
next heard oi nj Appleton City. where III y
registered AS Mr.. and Mrs. Stephens. Ia
tia meantime the girls friends were search,
ing for her in 81 L.uis. II IL stated that
while in 81 Louis she took room> al the
i.indell Hotel aud invoked iii. alb al noted
bur was ordered To leave the
hotel. There appears to have been two
men from Bates county in IL. case. one Of
them a wealthy married farmer, who is
supposed to have employed the young man
10 get the girl out oi the way.
Last Wednesday evening the runaway
girl arrived in this city with a young man
answering 10 the description oi Henry aud
registered al the l. .clede Hotel as Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Murphy. Here the girls parents
and friends lost all trace cf the runaway.
The detectives yesterday a-.ertain-d that
hey had been To sever.! ticket brokers
,fices in4niring Tor cheap tickets to Pueblo,
Colorado. As Miss Shuheri has a sister
living in Colorado. ~; far from Pueblo, il
is supposed that she has gone there. The
young man returned TO Bates county. The
parents and friends OF The girl desire 10 re-
claim the lost one ii possible. She is aged
fifteen years, his dark brown hair, fair
skin. and is rather II, AMI hs> all ;he ap
pearance of a green country girl. Her
people appear To tie very anxious 10 dts !
cover some clue TO her whereabouts, ard la
induce her Ia return home They wiif'un-
ionh,e,,!y have hard time to contro!
girl a. wild as she has proven herself I" be.