The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-05-14
A THIN STORY
Which the Leavenworth shines"
Publishes About q SedalIa Girl.

The Leavenworth Times contains an n.
ticle about girl by the name Of Alice
Chairman, who vas .. emily arrested in
Kansas City for drunkenness. She left
Kansas City and vent to Leavrnworth. and
while in the latter city, a reporter of the
Times had an interview With her. This il
what he says:
"Her home is in S-dalia, No., in which,
piacr reside her father and two married
sisters. She herself Vas married short
time ego. and lived happily with her hus-
hand for time until she discovered that
the did net stand alone in his affections, hut
that the love Of the man Who had sworn 10
owe. cherish and protect her was divided
Setween herself and a mistress. Siung tn
madness and goa,ied to frenzy by this faith.
l~ssness upon the part Of one whom above
all Others she looked mp "a, she deserted her
husband, fed from the home which Was no
longer home 10 her, and without bidding
her father ar sisters farewell ar giving
them the least IntimatIon Of her intentions,
she proceeded To Kansas City, where she
engsged ~ domestic in one Of the hotels
of that place. Attracted BY her youth and
fresh beauty. she MAS soon the admired If
that class which infe~t hotels and public
places, whose only aim in life is the graft
fcatinn Of the base-t passions, and after re
sisting tor time their arts and seductive
batteries. she fell. From that time her
course was an entirely different enc. She
forsock her honest employment. and be-
came an inmate Of one cf the fashion able
hagnios of the village nj the mouth Of the
Ksw"
The Tfs,es man il q little of when he
saws the girl has father and two married
sisters living in Sedalia. From what can
he aseeriained in regard to her, it appears
that she was employed as servant girl in
a private family IN this city last fall. hut
was discharged on acconn; of misbehavior
She Was next arrested for stealing clothes,
but rs the stolen property vac not found in
her possession. she was given her liberty.
She left tie city, and had not been heard
from until written up BY reporter Of the
Times II it il the same girl mentioned in
the Times that the BAzoo has reference to.
her parents reside at Smiihton, No., a small
town about ten miles east Of Sedal,a, on the
Missouri Pacific road, and are said 70 we'll
TODD people.
The Kansas City Journal SAYS Alice Chat
man came TO Kansas City about six weeks
ago, and at once took up her quarters in
one of the lowest dives on the levee. She
conScrted with negroes, and the very scum
of society we're her comparions. She never
did days work in any hotel in Kansas
City, and never was m inmate Of zone al
the fashionable hsgnios of the village
at the month Of the ksw." She was ar.
rested ia ihst city week after her arrival,
while in the company Of q negro ~ black
as the ace Of spades. and WAS fined SIS 75j,
which she was unable TO pay. She il one
Of the most depraved women known tn the
officers Of the law. and although young in
years is old in vice. and her companions
we're the scum and the refuse Of the dregs
Of society, and her intimates those who
have long been without the pale of the de-
cent world.