The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-10-19
THE NEGRO HUNT.
Infatuated Citizens Believe
They Have the Negro
Who Outraged Mrs. Byler ct Gail
foruis, Surrounded In the
Timber Near Ottervitle.

All BAZoo readers remember the outrage
Committed on the person Of Mrs. Byler,
near CsI,!ornis. No. sbonItw weeks since.
They ,l.n remember that the description
gwen by the lady OF the negro rsvisher
wss m-ager ~ ~ To afford bur slight clue
To assist ia his identification.
The negro. after ravishing the lady. rot-
bel the hou-r. \ short tune since . negro
named H"wari Adam, VIM resides three
miles nor'h ii % tcrviiir, vas suspiciohed.
snj a search Of hl- house ssve sled the IRE
-euce there oi several articles which had
be,n -rolru from Byler- house At the tune
OF the outrage, together with photograph
album AMI other articles which we're stolen
from . neighboriDy house abuut the time
the RAPE Was committed. The above. to-
gether with the fac, that he correspond. in
regard to having front tooth missing with
the ravisher, ~ described by Mrs. by Ter,
leave. but little doubt that he il the viii
lain. He Is . man thiriy-dve years of age,
who has the reputation vi being = thief and
Of having committed many petty crimes.
Is Is reported that lac has served tc&m in
the I~nit.niisrv. but that Is not authentic.
THE PURSUIT
A soon a. all this evidence began to
wrap itself around him The people OF Otter
willie, together with a squad If men from
California, beSsn searching for him. He
Ma not at home and his wife said he hsd
not b~rn ,h-c- for several day. IL wa-
then a-ceri.,ned tina, he had be~n in .
large body OF timber, Tor a week, which
runs four 10 ak miles north Of Otterville.
V-lensib.y to hide from an Oiervilie con-
=, bile, who had warrant tor him, under .
charge Of larceny, AMI that on last Sunday
night the constable. Who il an old man, and
not very nimble on foot, went To the tin her
AMI guided by the l'sh, oi the ire which
the negro had built and by which he VA
cookin; some game he hsd killed Sith =
revolver, he arrested him. He walked his
prisoner before him until near the edge OF
the woods they came tn fence. The pris-
oner climb,d over, the constable in climbing
over, had reached the top ofthe fence, when
the prisoner knocke! him down Of the
fence end escaped About lOO men sur.
rounded the timber yesterday and are con.
tiden, he il now in the timber, claiming
that they have tracked him there. The
pursurers armed and If, when found, the
negro resists, il is highly probable tina, he
will b. -en, direct To he'll BY the revolt
yer short line 4 reward al sos u offered
for hi. arrest.
A gentleman Of ihi. city who returned
iron O,,erviIie iaa, evening, informed =
BAAco reporter that the hunt Tor Adams
b-s,.n night before last instead IL yesterday
~ u stated above; that Adams vile says
that her husband conies.ei To her that he
knocked Mrs. Byler down, but denies the
rsping. Tie says that on Tuesday nigh,
for,y--ix men, who reside near CalifOrpis,
took supper a, the Mansion House Otter
willie who Joined in the hunt. The
woman also tells Of her husband being once
pura-i by ofhcers for larceny, and he
secrete,i himself in tree tops and caves in
the came timber in which be now is sup
posed Ia he, 40 that they we're unable to
dad him He has he-n sighted BY his pnr-
susrs several times, 80 they claim, bat they
have thus far been unable to get within
revolver rssge 81 him.