The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-05-28
MURDER WILL OUT.
A 0irl's Skeleton Pound in q Float
ing Skid-A Chapter of Crime
That Reads Like Romance.

In the early part Of the month Of Jul
1872, Julie lie Blanc, young lady eish
teen years Of age. and the daughter q
Francois LIE Blanc, farmer Of Jeffersol
county. Missouri, and the descendant vi
noble family ri France. mysteriousIy dis
appeared from home. She had dressed
herself with the intention Of attending !
party to be given at neighb,r's hou-e
and was last seen by her mother and "a; he,
in the garden plucking flowers for bou
quet.
The family. supposed that a Mr.. Jane,
Leonard, the most favored of her man,
admirers, who was her intended escort Z,
the party. had called and she lad gone
away with him and had not told her par
ents, either through carelessness or think,
ing il would be good Joke to pl,y on
them. Her parents were not seriou-l ~
alarmed that nigh;, but ON finding that she
was still absent next morning they became
anxious about her.
The persons who gave the party were
visited, and ON being questioned,
IMPAIRED THE INTELLIGENCE
to MIR. lie Blanc that his daughter had no,
been at his house, although Leonord had
been there the entire evening. having es-
corted his sister instead Of Miss lie Blanc.
Other neishbors were visited, but every
where the same reply was gIven-they had
neither seen nor heard Of Julie Compa-
MES OF men searched the woods and there
they found traces Of the footsteps Of man
and woman. The latter were the imprint
made by shoes Of the same SIZE As those
worn by the missing girl, a. was found by
comparing the tracks with one of her
shoes. These tracks lei to creek where
boat, the property OF Mr.. lie Blanc, had
been moored. This boat was missing.
Search was made for several miles
down the bank OF the creek and among
those of Chrystal, or a. it was then known,
Pla:tin creek, . large stream OF water
flowing into the Mississippi River, into
which the small creek emptied, but with
out success. The despairing parents gave
up their daughter a. one lost forever to
them. The mother like, Rachael, mourn
Ell and could not be comforted." All those
who knew the dark-eyed, rosy-cheeked,
merry Julie, sympathised with her parents
in their hour Of bereavement.
AsUsPI,IoN
finally entered the fathers mind that one OF
her many admirers might have had some
thing to do with her mysterious disappear
ance. His suspicious rested on Philip
Kenealy, who had been dismissed for the
favor OF Leonard. But this idea was con-
sidered preposterous by his wife, who re-
fused to let him have Kenealy arrested.
The suspected man went to Leblanc few
days after jules disappearance, and in
forming him OF his love for her, and how
little he cared to remain in the neighbor-
hood since she had been missing, told him
OF his intention Of going to New Orleans
where he had been offered permanent
situation at good compensation in large
wholesale store. That same evening he
quietly departed and has never more been
seen or heard Of since. When too late Mr..
lie Blanc resolved to have Kenealy arrest.
on suspicion Of knowing something OF the
whereabouts Of his daughter or what had
become of her. Two good detectives were
put too work on the case, they could neither
obtain traces of Ke1ealey nor OF the mys-
terry surrounding the fate OF Julie LIE Blanc.
But
MURDER WILL OUT"
and it appears after all these intervening
years the dark mystery has been cleared up
at last.
BENJAMIN F. Aiken, colored hand who
is in the employ Of Ferdinand Maher.
farmer Of New Madrid county. Missouri.
near Point Pleasant, while shooting snipe
along the river hank. last Monday morning,
Jaw an object having the appearance Of
skif, slowly floating With the current down
The river toward HIM. HIS curiosity was
aroused, and procuring a long pole he
waited for the objects Opproach. A. it
was carried down stream it vas taken by
the current farther in towards the shore
and Is it came nearer Aiken's supposition
that it Was skiG was proven true. When
The skif was directly opposite, Aiken
caught it by the means OF . pole and drew
Il to the shore. Lying in the bottom OF the
boat was q horrible CHASTITY, grinning
skeleton. The bones had been bleached by |
The sun and rain until they were Of q pure
'nowy wh,teness. and rs the sun shown
Town on them 40 polished were they that il
vas painful to look at them.
The skeleton was that Of q woman. Not
! particle of flesh was on the bones, but on
he right side of the skull was piece Of
kin dried and shriveled by the heat of the |
'un. Three teeth IN the upper part OF the !
mouth we're filed with gold, and two of :
the LOWER TEETH
we're missing. By her side in the bottom
If the boat, lay q piece OF jewelry having !
'ome resemblance to a breastpin, but it was |
70 worn by the action Of the water that it |
vas hard to tell for what use il had been
made. On the wrists Of the skeleton were
inc golden bracelets. The bracelets were |
If very 6ne quality Of gold and had some |
peculiar marks on them which at that time |
sould not be distinguished, but when more !
examined subsequently, proved 20
be the figures of animals. In the skiff
we're portions OF tarpaulin which had
lecayed before the ravsges Of rain and heat
Turing lapse Of many years. The boat
vas about eight feet in length and three and |
! half in width in the middle, slop,ng
gradually to point at each end, and was
II the class known ~ life boats. The out |
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