The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-09-21
TRAPPING TYPOS.
A Couple of Dead Beats Who
Played an Engagement in
Sedalia.
They Are Board Bill Jumpers,
Whisky 0usslers, and No
Account Generally.

They Are Board Bill Jumpers
Whisky 0u1slers, and No
Account Generally.
The latter part Of last month the propri
etors Of the printing Offices in this city
we're called upon BY too tramp'as prinsers
vho, a. they entered the BAzoo co@poainl
room, greeted the foreman With the ques
tiOn:
"Whss il the chance for work."
They said they we're from the west and
we're going hack to Gods country, where q
man could &c, work without having TO vail
= week to secure il. They gave theft
names - Charles Morris and Frank Kidd,
the former claiming Baltimore q his home
and the latter Richmond, Ind. They were
veil dressed and good tslkers, and had no
difficulty in securing employment, and en-.
gagged hoard NJ the Lindell hotel, where
they took their valise and left It % security
for the payment Of their bill.
Their work proved satisfactory. and they
pu, in full time until Thursday morning
Of last week. when both quit and vent on q
Profrscied drunk. After 20 doing their
provence vas discountenancea in the various
Office, and Mr.. Pierce. the landlord Of the
LindelI, finding that they were not working
told them he could not hoard them any
longer until they hsd paid him What wa
alresdy due.
While drinking in the saloons they man.
aged To stand the proprietor and barkeep-
err of for numerous drinks. and did not
fail to de.dbest whenever the opportunity
presented itself. They also made their
boas,s that they had hung up" the town
Of Lawrence, Kas., for about two hundred
dollar, aud had gotten away With all the
landlords with whom they had stopped in
the vest.
This he'd reached the carr of Mr.. Pierce.
and he determined to chow them . new
deal. Monday the elder one, Norris. called al
the Lindell and asked for his vslise. saying
he would settle his bill the next day. His
request Was refused, however, and Norris,
thinking to get hold Of the property, gave
an order for $50, the amount he owed.
Mr.. Pierce even then refused 70 allow
the vaIise To 60 out of his
possession until Kidd. too, had liquid iied
his Indebtedness claiming that IL belonged
to Kidd and no, to Norris. AZ Kidd re.
fused to settle, Mr.. Pierce procured the
papers and gsrni-l,eed his wages, thus max
ing himself safe. The beat had suspected
something Of the kind, however. and had
endeavored to have another printer collec,
the wages due, avowing that he Kidd
va indebted to the printer. The scheme
failed, and the landlord secured his money.
Yesterday noon Norris secured the
money due him, and when Kidd presented
himself he Was unceremoniously bounced
BY the proprietor. They Immediately CON.
menced drinking. and made themselves o.
obnoxious - possible, after which they
went to En-, Sedalia for the purpose Of
catching train and beating their way to
ST. Louis. Abou, hs;f-past Eve o'clock
last evening, Norris returned down town,
when Officer Schoenowerk spied him and
arrested him on the charge Of vagrancy.
He marched him to the calaboose. folIoWed
BY q crowd, AID when at the door, a. the
officer Vas reaching in his pocket for his
keys. Norris jerked loose and broke through
the crowd, taking up Second street as rap
idly % he could 90.
This proceeding somewhat astonished
Schoenoverk, but instead Of using his
utmost endeavors TO capture the fleeing man,
be started oG 1t q very lame gait and
allosed Norris to maze his escaps to East
sedalia, where he succeeded in hiding for .
time and no doubt left the city some time
during the night.
The efforts put forth BY Schoenowerk to
effect capture were about equal 10 those
Of superannusted old womsn suffering With
. spell Of sickness, and called forth con-
demnation from ell sides. II he expects to
retain his piece on the force, he will have
to do better than he did on this occasion,
for his conduct sss simply diaersceful.
The two printers spoken Of, Norris and
Kidd, ere besss and hummer Of the frst
water, and printing Offices and hotels that
trust them in any manner whatever will
undoubtedly get left. The chances are
that they will give Sedslis . vide berth in
eha fnsuee