The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-04-06
A CLUE TO A CRIME.
A Letter Written by the Prob
able Mother of a Muir
dered Child.
Some Startling Revelations Which
Should Meet Investigation
by OficIal Hands.

When Albert Eiwsrd-. Prince al Congo.
ti-niny Tor his boiler in the cid we'll north
of the Garrison House, last raesiAv, found
his grab hook bait-d with . baby he was,
A. he acknowledges, sonewhit SCARED lie
iel, with Mr.. Micawber, that a baby WA
"a demnIrion moist, unpleasant body un
der Any circumstances ami doubly 50 IN
the abnormal conditions under which be
h al found the youns-;er- Maybe he had
heard that truth lurksd At the bottom oi a
we'll and lac feared -, tine little brat
should favor him with some account OF the
crimes which induced lie sponsors TO give {"
such q fatal baptism. Bs- tins ~ may,
the child IA abe noise enough coming out "i
its .ierv CRIB 10 open way %: getting al
the facts Of what appear Ia hs very dirty
crime. twas playing il los do~n or the
BABY 10 pi:ch il into the veil, but a
lower game seems q have been played on
the girl if any connection really exists
between the by drop ,rh,c tie .tment Of the
child and the unheroic treatment o! the
probabie mother Who that mother actually
!. has not vet been discovered, but chain OF
circumstances, hereinafter explained, will
pos.,biv lead TO her discovery and The ex-
posur- Of the voung one. unenviabie pa
iernity. Briefly, these circumstances are,
that on Friday . young gentleman. who Is
some whst inclined 10 90 through life AT !.
smart pace. was waiting for a companion
. A. ka bal nj
in Ea-, Sed,li. Walking 10 she rear door
leading out IN small poriico, he stood
there a lev moments leaning against the
Intel al the door and almost unconsciou-ly
moving t. and fro a piece of paper with
his fooi In reflective mood he thought
that po- .:hly some one hsd cast aside let
ter G .relessly and he picked it up ans
smoo,hed il out. In Mas torn and from he
page OF note paper fragment wss missing
II was Vet and soiled, but in the short time
and dim light he saw that the writing va
that Of a woman. He had inst seen thu
much when his companion joined him anr
he thrust the paper in his pocket. Arrived
at home ne opened the paper out agar
. and on reading il he sac stuck with th'
application of the sent menf and circum
:; snces If the letter To the finding al th'
child. The letter Wa evidently written 90
a half sheet Of note paper and the portion
, tori awsy inc.ulrs the address II the ioI
and the date line. As much ri IL ~ Cal
h. deci,he red readS ~ follows:
LII
Iihl- crime
an d,rj,j Sin
7 VIVA, an awful fate
= mine If discovery should fol
When I aw"ke ,hi' morning ani real
lied all shook with terror. ! was ,
% frightened ] conid not even cry. NJ
? baby Nv baby Why did not dis wi'
you? You mus, come Ia me to-day an
then must leave this place. R"memhe'
Il have loved You with love rh At il mor
= than love. God pity me. NAOMI.
Tn. whole tenor oi this letter points
= the commission OF 4 crime and IL was n
|. psrently written in n condition borterin
:. on delirinm The mother had evidentl
been the victim of = liaison and was
: mortal terror ii discovery. The aiinsiu
i 10 III. crime. the fear If exposure, the AM
q i.ty a. f-e. the acknowledgement ut "a
loy. that wu- more than hove. al! seem
link themselves with Albert Eiward-' IN
u in the old well The fragment of letter
q written m the Italian fashion OF ladi.
Y manuscript. a little sharpened in the 10
nation az letters, and not in the Spencer.
s,y,e which girls are taught now. Ii
D. inst pnssibl,. that this torn hall sheet
X note paper NAV p"in, 10 Nh immor
IN tray.iy. Though the principal! criminal M
y. never adorn i,il or gsliows.
The portion Of the letter thus found
At the BAzoo Office and will he submili'
4, =, in.p.c,iop in order that the wri'iI
D. NAV. II possible. I've identified.