The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-11-12

A Search for Him Reveals q Liv.
ing He'll.
The Young Man Probably Robbed
and Murdered.

boarded ut No. 10 South Third stree
and wac last seen on the 28th of Ia,
month. The case was placed in ii
hands Of Detectives Hennessey III
LAWYER. two If the Oldest and most e
ficient men on the st. Louis force. an
yesterday. with the keenness and tao
uncommon even with men Of their prt
fession, they succeeded in tracing tn
missing man to the the Lucas Bank
where he drew $3.50 on the morning Q
the 18th, and subsequently to bous
kept by
CoI.ORED WOMAN
named Mary Phillips. at No. 61O Car
street. This was the last that the,
could learn Of him. and suspicion mai
urally rests upon the dark-skinne,
siren who manages the den of sin. Thi
woman is proprietrcSs Of two houses
one at the corner of Sixth and Myrtle
and another at No. G1O Carr street
The officer learned that Milsapp ha,
visited Go Carr street ON Sunday even
ing. the 9th. looking for a white wo
man named
ALICE FRANKLIN,
who lived there, but ne didn't find her
as she had gone down to the othel
house. The next morning he visitet
the place at the corner Of Sixth ant
Myrtle, and learned that she was sick
In the meantime he had formed the
acquaintance of a girl named Nellie
Ellis, at No. 6lO Carr, and that even
ing. October 18th. he returned there,
having at that time the $3.50 in hi:
pockets. There the matter rests, and
trace Of his departure can be found.
Yesterday morning the two officers
above named entered the place and be-
gan making inquiries Of the girls as to
what had become of the man, but all
Of them protested utter ignorance and
to avoid making state
ment. This excited the officers sus-
picion further and the matter was rem
dered still more complicated. by the
fact that the girl,, who were all white
and respectable looking, seemed to
have a most
UNACCOUNTABLE TERROR
Of the woman, and almost trembled
under the gaze Of her snaky eyes, as
the officers were conducting the exam
nation. The enchantress finally lost
her temper and gave orders to the Of
icers. who had up to this time con-
cealed their identity, to leave the house,
almost raving in her uncontrolled an
ger. The minions Of the law then dis
PLAYED their stars, ordered her under
arrest. and prepared t. convey the
whole household to the sta.ion.house.
At this time three girls, Lou Wal
ters. Elizabeth Woods and Alice
Franklin, and the door-keeper, Nellie
were present, and the sight Of
he officers stars acted like an electric
'hock upon them. All, with the ex-
,eption Of the door-keeper, appealed to
he officers to free them from the
clutches ofthe colorei woman by whom
hey claim to have been restrained to
heir liberty and treated with
UNTOLD BRUTALITY.
Two Of the girls, Nellie Woods and
lou Walters, are but recently from
he country, and each claim to have
'eeu whipped with a cowhide on sew
raj occasions. and in order to convince
he increduious officers barred their
houlders and displayed. the plain blue
marks Of the whip. They stated that
he woman had inveigled them into
Ter house. under various pretexts, and
Iept them there despite frequent at
empts to gain their freedom. The
Nellie Wilson, whose duty j:
vas to sit at the front door and let only
certain persons come and 60. corrobor-
tied the testimony of the girls, and
declared that she had also been held in
dread of
LOSING HER LIFE.
She says that Mary Philips is des-
,erate woman, and would not hesitate
o take the life Of one who should be
% unfortunate as to arouse her hatred.
The story looks improbable at hest,
rom the fact tina. two of the girls.
franklin and Ellis. were sometimes at
me house and sometimes at another,
nut they state that they were always
accompanied by some accomplice Of
Phillips and were convinced that If
hey attempted to escape they would
fall into her hands and she
would be avenged. These two, how.
'ver, we're not so cruelty treated Is
Elizabeth Woods and Lou Walters,
or whom al use Of the whip Was re-
erved. That q cowhide was used
ipon them BY some one cannot be dis
puted as the marks of the lash
SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.