The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-03-15
A SAD STORY.
Ruin Of Q School Girl Only Six
teen Years Old.


Last Tuesday Wm. Rowland, q well-to.
farmer, residing Eve miles from Csronde-
let on the Telegraph road, called at police
headquarters and reported the mysterious
disapIearance Of his daughter Katie. She
wss, he said, l6 years Of age, . brunette OF
pleasing cOun,enance and wearing rho:t
dresses yet. He said that she had left
home on last Mon ay night, and that the
impression was that abe had come 10 st.
Louis to seek her fortune. The police
made note Of the disappearance, Is they
make note OF hundreds of other occur
rencee of the kind, where the nlissipg ones
generally return home after An absence Of
day or two, and tell the old folks that
they have been visiting some relatives or
frier.ds. The matter was lost sight OF and
Miss Katie might have never been found
but for . disturbance yesterday morning in
house of prostitution At No. 2l1 Poplar
street, the proprietress Of which Is the
notorious Kate Rohn. OfScer Hef-
ferman, attracted 70 the premises in
question By the noise, found Katie
Rowland nourishing . pistol and ihrest-
/ ening to kill come one Of the inmates.
Hefierman arrested K atie "a he would ans
other inmate, and took her TO the four
courts. There she was recognized imme-
diateiy, from the description left BY farmer
Rowland, n the missing daughter. She
told cad story of the life she had led dur
ing her short absence from home. She left
school, she said, last fall and since then
had done Q great deal of novel reading.
and in this way had formed high ideas OF
the pleasures OF city life. She thought
she would try il and rec for herself, and 20
she packed up few little traps in q s.ichel,
home. Il was her intention 10 come here
and end work OF come easy kind 10 do. and
for that reason upon her arrival he!e. she
tried to get situstion. Persons whom she
spoke to upon the subject referred her te
an intelligence Office, and che was on her
way there, when she fell in with aresPecta-
bic appearing msn. She asked him If she
Vas on the right way 10 the intelligence
bureau, end then ne commenced question
ing her - to what she wanted
of an Office of that kind. She told
him, and he then eaid that he
would end her . good situation il she
would accompany him. OF course she Vas
willing to do this, but the stranger, instead
of leading her to . respectable house. took
her to the establishment at No. 2ll Poplar
street. An interview With the woman OF
the house followed. The latter told Katie
that che might lead iady's life. ride in q
carriage and wear the best robes, If she
stayed with her. Ksiie's head Vas dssed.
but she said nothing. The next day, how
ever, the woman of the house took her out
riding and gave her liquor, and when che
returned to the house she Vas in state Of
intoxication. 1t Vas while in this cLndi.
ton that she Wa ruined. After coming 10
her senses she va resolved to make the
best of her degradation and remain in the
house in question. But she was not Of the
kind to prosper here. She could not .sso.
ciste With the inmstes and conform to
their waye, and ~ . reeult they QuaFreled
with her. She bought . smsll-sized. sill
ver-mounted revolver to defend herselt
With, and Was about to make good use Of
it yesterday, when the officer appeared and
arrested her. The parents of the girl have
been notified, and she will Be delivered
over 70 them.