The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-01-25
SOARING A0RAY.
A Taie Of Horror Makes o Young
Kentuckisn Git.

Ecsc are n iaCciDus fot Va SouoS
b'oods boarding down at the st.
Charles. There are representatives
If the wholesale and retail establish
mea.s of the city. bank clerks. rail
Toad accountants, travelling men and
Others. 90 numerous 10 mention, and
when fifteen or twenty or them con-
gresi,e around the office stove after
working hours. they make about as
"whoop 'em mp" q crowd as can be
found anywhere. Yesterday Morris
Nshm. from Hiseviile, an interior
Kentucky village, registered COR din
ner. dined, and sat down in the office.
When the crowd accidently began
discussing III. matter of administer
ing the laws 10 this section snd how
numerous outrages had gone unpun
ished. Nahm became greatly interested
at once. said he was an inbccen. sort
Of q fellow from the tackwoods of
kentucky and wanted to get posted.
aud then and there boys caught GU
at once. relating some Of the mast
horribl. stories If midnight assassins,
highway robseries and bold burg!s-
ri,s that ear ever heard tell Of Or
mind conceived Of. They were all
located right here in St. joseph. OF
course. Ia the course Of the after.
noon it was learned that Nahm had
come on; west to seek his fortune and
would attempt to get cierkshiP in
this city. After supper the bays re-
sumed their Munchsusen tales Cf hor.
ror and hy he'd time. Nshm. who had
listened atteutively to all that had
been said. was pretty we'll worked mp
as TO his cwn personal safety. AZ
usoal the house Vas crowded, and the
room assigned him happ ned to be on
the first A lor. There were two beds
in the room, aad his was near the
window. After he had retired. Brown.
the biggest bparder iu the honse, who
was to occupy the other bed walked
into the room. and muttering some
thing about this being an awful aes-
perate section Of couutry. asked Nahm
If be had q revolver. Being answer.
in the negative he offered tn lone him
one. Don't you see how the racket
is worked ?" said Brown: ''yOu are
put into that bed BY the windnw-
why. tell you 4 burglar is liable {"
Jump through that window and light
IN top of you any minute. Nahm
lay iew seconds aim,,st paraiyz-d
with fear. and in half a second he sppe-
AIRED ea diskabiNs in the hotel Office and
wanted TO see the "nan of the house"
He had retired. 1.-The clerk then,
l think I'll 60. said Nahm
and rushing back to the rom he slip
ped into his SHOES and pantsloons,
snstched his hat from the beiposl,
toox his cat under his ara, leaving
his necktie and collar behind, and o--
fore the half-a-sieep clerk had time
to open his ewes the scared fe.low ha,.
slapped down a dollar. which he
Thought was about fair for two meals.
yanked MS big trunk upon his should
er aud started up town. Al he de
parted Johnny Fletcher. thinking that
the joke bad gone quite far enough.
followed him TO the street aud at.
full explanation. when
Nahm turned snd warned him not o.
follow him. II know you. and know
this county, said the frightened Ken.
Iuckian: Il know the people here
would IL sron kill a man as look NJ
him, and Iii tell you now, don't you
follow me or I'll let this trunk fall Oh
voa." The fellow took Kate Burgess
livery stable for q MOTEL, but was
inaliy induced to believe that he
,onid obtain better lodging quarters
'urther up town. This morning the
could scarcely stop laughing
eng enoggn 10 eat breakfast.