The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-10-18
1900 REWARD.

hams, charged with having murdered
Thomas Johnson, notice i hereby givel
tha. reward oi 600 Nil. be paid Ia any
person who shall give such inf, rinai ion IL
shall Lead 10 the apprehension a.d COZ
yiciion oi the said John Williams De
sc-i?tion OF Williams: Height. ) ieet :
inches; figure thin; hair dark lar. {
eyes; probably clean shavcn. When last
-een had marks of scratches on the throat
snd wound on the side Of the head
above the forehead
The above notice. circulated extern
sivelv about the county led every
body who wan'ed goo to keep an at
ten.ive lookout upon all persons whom
they met having dark hair, clean
,haven faces, and standing five feet
sight inches high. For men answer
ing in any way to the foregoing te-
scription the times became trying,
AMI many. from consciousness thar
:aey reSembled a suspected murderer
K2iked abOu: with troubled counte-
names. X did nGt occur 20 the ma
jor;tv of the public 10 reflect that the
.gue John Williams VAS probably con
concealed in some obscure lodging.
ani was not visible to anv but his
Andladv. II WAS stated that John
IS ...iamS hal not much money. but if
he had once altered his appearance.
sc couii have trampel Satel 8 and cas-
!ly about the country, sleeping ana be
ing led in the union OF Il new parish
every night. These things were not
remembered; the anxiety TO goo lei
81 the arrest of good many people,
sni among these victims was a thin.
Th-haired gentleman. who had
scratch on his throat, bump on hi
head, and whose linen was marked
i. w"
This unfortunate man had, from
the day when the murder was made
public in the papers, eyinced Il strange
uneasineSS; and 10 wonder, for hi
.,ame was John Williams, and he was
absent from home when the murder
was committed. He received infor-
nation of the occurrence at Man
chester, and half an hour afterward
he might have been seen on his knees
IN his bedroom, tearing up a number
n papers. which he drew from his
box and atterwarl burned. Having
done this, he rang for a porter to car
~ down his things, pad his bill and
left the hotel. saving he was going 10
Liverpool. On arriving at the rail
way station, he pasted on his luggage
some label, with the name Arthur
White"
Now, up to this time, the hue and
cry after John Williams had not be
come general; but in the course of
the afternoon, rs the murder came to
be talked of, the manager of the ho-
Sci at Manchester recollected that the
zane of the young and dark-haired
person who had gone away in the
morning was Williams. The police
were at once communicated with. and
in the course of a few hours, enough
evidence was elected toshow that this
fugitive must be, beyond any doubt.
he man wanted. A waiter testified
20 having seen bump on his brow
a porter had been seht out to the
chemists to buy a lotion for some
excavations on his throat; everybody
agreed that the man was thin and
clean-shaven. A detective was ac-
eordingly dispatched to Liverpool. 7,
Meanwhile. another detective, who re-
manned behind, ascertained that Viii I.
Hams had not gone to Liverpool, but
TO Edinburgh. A porter had seen
aim enter the Scottish express, but
aad not noticed what was the name
on his luggage. |
These particulars were telegraphed |
about the country and published in
all the papers, SO that Williams, alias
White, who had alighted from the
express at Carlisle, ascertained that
he was being hunted and became
frantic with terror. He was not the
murderer; he had committed no
crime of any sort, and vet he had
very special reasons for wishing not
20 have his private affairs investi-
gated. What should he do! He
was half inclined to 90 to the police
station, explain that he was being
chased under 4 misrepresentation, con-
tess his position and trust to the good
sense of the police to let him go free.
Unfortunately he delayed too long in
executing this purpose. The Edin-
ourgh police, having been directed
oyT telegraph to arrest the Williams
travelling from Manchester, had ar
rested somebody else sooner than ap-
srehend nobody; but on discovering
their mistake they had wired down
The line TO inquire whether any pas
,enger with ticket TO Edinburgh had
slighted at a station on the way?