The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-12-28
AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS
J. G Mace 10 Arrested for .
Murder Committed In
Kentucky.
And Arrived in Sedalia This
Morning on His Way to
Answer to the Charge.
A Full History Of the Case a. Re
lated by the O@cer 70 .
"Bazoo" Repor or.

il OH Of The coaches that arrived from
The -s,u h This morning ear = prisoner wht
is charged With being one Of three rsrron'
sho committed two murders in r isski
county, H., IN the FILL Of 1866. Thu
man's name n J. e. Mace. axed 6f,y-siz
,ears. and he wns srre-i~d IT Carthage
No, Sund.y evening. BY J. c. Shipiey. m
fic-r Who had been Tor some time work
ing on the csse
When the BAzoO representative entered
the car for the purpose Of interviewing the
,ri.oner, ne found him
cHAINHD tt A sEAT,
-Esssed in p.'iaking Of q lunch, while
sitting in the adj &c mt s.,t Ma the of ,rr
sho had iim Ia charge, w. :. SsePl*rd,
,i,er ri Summsrset, Ky.
Al frat Shepv<rd was aver-e 10 giving
,ny of tie facts IN the cas-, hut n ace. the
prisoner, said il would ell bsve to Come
N, in court. 40 there 90 no u.s trying Ia
keep the f,ir Q1;e,. and he requested the
fficer TO rel .,e what he knew, which he
I'D, M follnw-:
A, k>umui-r-r., PI,st: conr:v, in
he fall Of lse6. ~, irr- ) ,ua-. ai,,,.. a
-hoemxker, nd q r-,.;i.r si..s-s Esine j.
unknown,
and although every p~,--Ihls s-Arci; Va.
nsGe for them or their sotiss, !. w - ANA
vaiiing. Ia IS 5, iWs yesr- -it-s hey h al
disappeared, a coiored msm related 90 s:',De
Of hi. scQaatntanc-- st"rv, e!ain,:n. fh>t
the p-diier sui -h"eDsk-r had been u,ur-
s.ered, aud th.t J. L. NJ ,ce srs! .wo O h-r
residents # ths: vicinity had L.en guilty
Of the crime. Mace had, q short slime
previous, removed 1. X .n-s-. where
he h-s since been living, m king irequeh,
vi-,ts into Missouri.
Whether the negro's story wss generally
believed, i, not known. y, action wxs
taken, ho~-ver, until in NV, 1880. OF
Twelve years if,-r ,ae negro h.d 6r-t re-
lated the cirrYul-, ,nce. In that month,
while a gentleman living nesr S0mmersei
WAS DIGGI &C WILL,
when at drp;i, al se5er.i fee', the homes
Of one or more human being- were found,
and then the fact If the two missing men,
fourteen years before, wss revived. Tie
serui, was that the ngro who h-d
,oid of the Fl ,ir AZ many ssae- before "a.
.-xin interviewed. II. r-,,er.:ei every
thing, sud il Was determined tn are whsl
vac in the cS-e. the fso men VINO still
resided in kentucky. whom the negro said
~ere implicated, were arrested several
eeeks ago. They denied nil KIN ,wie.!g. OF
the q .ir, and one Of them, Who claimed
IN Al Mills, the s!r-m ,k-r,
WAS NOT DEAD,
inserted an advertisement offering q re-
ward IL So for his po-'ofice sddr.a-.
Strsnxe To rel ate. a man claiming u b-
Mills snswered the advert -ement from
Ford'- Frrry, Nv, asd later sen, 10 Sum
u~rset, where, IL IL aid, several parties re
HIM a. the man . WAS sup
po-ed To have been murdered.
o. tie sireny,h If this development, the
negro wac arrested, charged With p jry.
hut gave bail in the sum Of 500 and hr
wss ~Ilo~ed his l..~riy. He, howev'r T,
till stuck 10 hi- Story, >ni 100 seeks ago
vent before the grand jury and gave hir
testimony. the result Of which wss
INDICTMENTS WERE roUSD
against tie three men. The fact tbs,
Mace w.s living with his { mily in Kan
..s w.s .sceriained, and J. T.. Ship'-v, Il
Par-on., was d-isii-d TO M Ike the arrest,
which he did SUNDAY evening ut Carih-Re,
md returned sl orce Ia Parsons. where :te
prisoner VAS turned over TO the 'il-s from
>ommer-es yesterday. Suc.., ia brief, IL the
story.
Mr.. Sheppard said lie did not pretend to
say that
MACE MAS GUILTY.
In fact, the reporter i.c!iIe- Go the belief
N al he thinks oth-.~I-- Nice :s!Ked Of
The STAIR with -. u'n.'s: c'.'n.s,-ue~, and
was not the lea. worried ~ io he out.
eume. He sdmi,s ihsi lie VAIN Kentucky
It the time of the die ppesrancr, hut ssys
=
thing tbs; troubled him was the fac; that
he would be compelled to Lay in jill until
cour, Convened.
The story il indeed . etranGe one. ard
should the merge prove to have told the
ruth, il again verif q the old adse that
"murder will out" The prisoner wss
taken exst on No. 2, and will reach his des
,inalion to- morros night.