The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-08-23
EDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY, AUGUST %, 1881

ring pawned to COhn, was given me by
him, and he will have fine time getting
! it again. came to Sedalia TO elude him
and it was my intention tO go to my mother
| in Iowa. ] am young woman, but am
getting old by living with him."
! Such, in brief, was Miss Adde'S story. and
as she related it. she seemed to he labor
ing under not little mentalexcitement In
reply tn the interrogation as to whether
f; she proposed giving up the jewelry, she
gave AN emphatic no." and wound up by
, saying that she was done with Bit. for
ever.
Thanking her Tor the information OBJ
, tanned, the scribe bowed himself from the
room aud was ready tn apply the
pump to Mr.. Blitz when he should arrive.
aud
WITH HIN CAME A WOMAN,
whose name Is given as Miss Hammond.
but whose proper name. according To Blitz,
is Miss Dudley Addie aud Miss Ham
mOn.l arr old friends. and Blitz alleges
that the job put up OH him WAS as E,nch
the work III Miss Hammond rs it was
Miss Ayers, alias Clements. Immediately
on arrival Blitz sought Addie in her
room and ut once demanded that she re-
turn that jewelry." No sooner We're the
words uttered than Indignation seized hold
upon Miss Ayers, and she gave her former
lover To understand that she would
most asSur,rllv do nothing of the kind, Is
it was hers by right Of gift. They had
quite a lengthy consultation. i'm which
Blitz attempted To-
OBTAIN \ COMPROMISE,
but To no avail. Miss Ayers still main
tanned that she would M, give up the Jew
e!ry, and she found iirni friend in Miss
Hammond. So the matter rested last
night This morning BAZOo man found
Blitz i'm the Office of the Garrison house
and sought an interview. Al first he re-
fused to talk, but ON ls.ins informed that
Miss Ayers version Of the affair had been
obtained. he consented to open his mouth.
lie is rather insignificant looking icl-
low, below the medium height, slender
built and not the person that a woman oi
Miss Ayers style should get stuck on"
BLIrZ SPEAKS.
Said Rliiz: This woman, whose name
is A,ldie Ayers, alias Clements, l first met
nine months ago in Nellie SCOTS bagnio,
Oh Fourth street, in Kansas City. l got
stuck On her and was quite intimate with
her. She left and went To Minneapolis,
Mimi, and returned To Kansas city about
two months ago. She came in nv fathers
store one evening and | sold her a
cheap ring. She said she didn't have much
money. She asked to look at some dia-
molds. and I showed her the ring she
D.. I'll ShZ
said she could sell it for me to one oi her
gentleman admirers. ~ he had promised
to buy her
RING AND NECKLACE
I told her We did not do business that
way, but she talked 50 plausible that
] nj last consented. She said
she was living with q married sister, but
] found out afterwards that she was hold
ing forth in house OF aseignatiOn. She
took the ring. saying her friend would call
on her that night, and she would persuade
him to purchase it for her. The next
morning ] called upon her to see If she
had sold the ring. but she said her friend
had not called the evening before. l
requested that she return to me the ring,
which she did. She then told me that she
her husband, but she would return in three
or four days, and for that purpose she bor-
rowed from me 81, saying She would make
it all right when she returned. She was
gone ten days, and when next saw her
she said she had
LEFT HER HUSBAND FOR GOOD,
as it was impossible to get along with him
She then got = room, and | boarded her ut
the Arlington house. She told me that
she had met her friend again, and ii ]
would let her have the diamond she let
certain he would buy il for her. ! did So
During all Of this time she was intimate
with other men, and made q confident Of
Miss Hammond, alias Dudley, who ar
rived here last night. This Miss Ham,
mOnd was turned out OF the Arlington
hotel in Kansas City because Of being
caught coming from mems rooms during |
the night. She is blackmailer, but is
highly educated and calculated to deceive. |
She secures n position in some respect |
able family rs governess, aud then becomes
intimate with some member Of !
the family. after which she has them
COMPLETELY IN HER POWER.
Last Saturday night spent in company |
with Addie. and on Sunday evening she |
left Kansas City, taking with her my dia-
mond ring. This woman Hammond fur |
nished her the money ON which to leave |
IOwn, and it was understood between them |
hat they would come to Sedalia and !
work the town. Oh, they are slick ones,
md they have played me for nice suck |
r.. All I want is my ring, and the woman
IAN CO."
The reporter was willing to admit that |
Addie played Blitz for sucker, but he
concluded it was best to say nothing.
After this interview, Marshal Shy and
Miss Ayers were seen walking down Usage
street toward the calaboose, and a little
alter the reporter joined them. Blitz's
Statement, was read to Miss Ayers, and she
it tissue oil ialsehOOds from
BEGINNING In end.
why" said she. "ii had wanted to rob
him, Why didn't leave town couple Of
lays ago. when ! had $50 belonging to