The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-06-15
A REVEREND SOUNDED.
How a Preacher..Journalist
Played it on the People
of Jacksonville.
After Which He Skipped Out for
Sedalia, Hrs Wife and Chill
dren Following.


q pleasant one by any means but when
man steals the livery 81 heaven wiih which
To rerve the devil, IL j. time his shOrtcs,m-
ing- received thorough veniilsiion. And
when man following the profession oi
journalism goes through the county, from
city to city and tosn to- town, SEEING &"
shat extent he can imp -. n,.on t6.-r
whom he can deceive with his lying tongue,
il il tim. for the pres oi the land ,o place
him in his lra- light ieiore ia. public.
Such case has the EAzyo to-day.
Some foar months ago n man represent
ing himself Is ". l. Woodruff, with his
wiie anil three children, dropped down in
the little village of Hsrri-onviIIe, in : as
county. From whence they came, the
BAzoo is unable la -iaie. woodrnfi vas
IN Intelligent, fine appearing man, aged
abon, forty year., and was Possessed Of the
gilt al CAB in a remarkable degree. He
repre-e nied himself a a journalist. and
stated that he ws- formerly dispenser vi
the gospel, having had charge oi
psstorAies in different places. On his m.
rival he made himself known Ia some Of
the principal citizens of the place, aud
gave il out that he desired to engage in the
newspaper business. lie secured financia!
assistance from some oil the hest people oi
the place, and vas placed in editorial
charge Of The Tindiorto', q greenbsck paper.
lie procured house aud soon the family
were domiciied in their new home
The venture Vas failure from the start /;
bu, the soft money advocate looked for
better things in the future and kept dig
ging away. In his employ we're two
printer, one oi them mailing from Balii-
more, Nd, who's. naine was W. L. Shryock.
This disciple oi the ART pI.-.rvative boarded
with his employer, and when Saturday
night came Ground stand-Of of for the
greater portion Of the weeks wages WAS the
result. ~ things ran along until about
the first of Nay, when Woodruff, seeing
that IL Wa iuilp--itie to s,eu, the tide a
great while longer, commenced looking
around Io see in what manner he could
max. srsi--. lie h,i succeeded in getting
hsL not ne, ieciri To- collect every penny
due him As lac went along. BY conversa-
tion with has employe, Shryock. he learned
tina, lac had nat written 10 his people in Bal.
tilnOr- for quite period. and ascertsine.i
also that The young msn had some three
hundred dollars due HIM from the settling
up oil an estate in Maryland; 40 q happy
scheme entered his fertile brain. He
would write 10 Shryock's mother. Who VA
. widow. and would pa, up q little job
whereby the desire,! cash world be forth.
Coming. With this in vie~, he p-nn-,i ia
Mrs. ShEyoek the following letter, and iii.
recied that her answer he sent Ia him a.
e-iaii,. where h- represented that hi.
home WAS
DEAR MADANE-li il psinful To- me
e. write, bat | cannot do cihrrs i-e in iu--
iicc &, myself and family. Your s,n,
VIM. l.. Snry"ck, IL nnd great obligations
10 mr the amount u . little over one hun
dr-i dollars SlUJl. for board, narrowed
money, NC. !Sc. lie said he had $40 due
HIM last Apri!, aud | have KEPT waiting
ami waiting, bat he does net paw m~.
am a poos man. With a vile and three
; chiidisn, and Eiust sisak out now.
] came un here la see bin, hut he il no,
here, and ] have Ia borrow money io &c,
home with.
For the love Of God, Ms.iamc, .end the
amount ] have named. | am willing C.
call il that, though !; IL almost 81 more
unless yUu 10 I DO not know but We sh all
-tsrve. | got in debt through this, anu
only get smsll pa and hence you can --s
hos distressed 1 sm. send to me NJ INV
home. Respectfully .ld truihfuiiy.
". NJ. WALRUF.
Sedalis Mo.
Nv the above il will b. seen that the
name of wslruf Is signed-noi Woodsuli
After mailing the letter Woodruff
secretly made arrangements for leayi' th,
quiet little town where he had duprd -
many, and about the time the letter va.
expected from Baltimore he left and came
To SeJalia, without informing any one n,
To Whist hI- intentions we're tie called Al
the po-to.hee for several DAYS, bu: the anx
iously looked for letter did not arrive See.
ing that his scheme was futile one, the
preacher-journslis, thought he was too
near the scene of has late 'riumph-. SO con.
cludei TO hunt pastures rev. With thi,
In view, he communicated his intention.
through some unknown c:annel 10 his wife
md on the night cf the l4,h IL May sh.
arrived in Sedalia with i.er three children
and was met by Woodruff. A. TO where
they stopped while in this city, the BAzo0
representative was unable TO ascertain bu.
il Is known that Woodruff left the mex,
day for parts unknown, aud Mrs. Woodruff
then wrote the following letter To al a.
quainiance at Jacksonville.
! sEDALIA, May Is. 1850.
Mr.. HUsOw-l arrived here about
eleven o'clock last evening. Met Mr. W
out things were not satisfactory ut all; your
sur,aisss were correct. ] shall go no fur.
ther. Shall write home today. I have
sent 10 Mr.. May TO send me INV goods
shall take them With me, for INV people
will gladly pay the freight Will you
please ssk the colored boy. that drives for
Mr.. G. If he SAG n small round hox when
he took the trunks. Mrs. May said he
took il. II he has il will you please get
IL and mail il To me- PIea-e mail the last
lndioaio {" me, and obl,ge.
Yours Respectfully.
Mrs J. :. wOopHUrf.
P.S.-Plesse remsil my letters TO THE
point until further notice. should any of
the magazines come I would like In have
them also. MRs. w.
When the above letter vas received at
HarrisonviIIe il vac given out thu, Wood
ruff vas in Sedalis, and the people Of
Cas- county commenced taking sieps for
his srre.t, only to End that the bird had
.