The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-01-18
HRF00r AND sCR0GGINs
Two Young Men Well Known
In Sedalia.
They are Arrested on Q Charge Of
Saying Q Preacher Wss IN Old
Drunksrd. Not Married to
His Wife. and That His
Wife Had Once Run
on With Q Man.

Wife Had Once Run
on With . Man.
A few DAYS ago il was stated that Z. 4
Scroggins, young man Who is pretty Sc
known IN this section and has been
trouble . nsmSeE Of time., hsd been ~
rested ct OI,erviIie on . cha ge Of at,enp
ed rape, and taken BY the officers who mad
the .rrest 10 Hermitage, Hickory county.
This morning Mr.. q. c Scrogxin-,
brother Of c. H. Scroggins, w.s in the cit
to procure the services If Capt. L. l
Bridges, OF THE city, 10 defend HE brc;he'
aud he, SC -ogsins, explained the matte
10 EAzoo reporter. The Scroggins boys a.
the -ons of . respectable farmer Who re
sides in tie northwest corner If Morgan
Pettis and Cooper counties. G. II Scrug
gins vas not arrested for 40 attempts,
rspe. bot on q charge Of Islander. A. J
kerfoot, with whose record the people al
this section are pretty familiar. vas zi-'
arrested al Slater, Same county, on sim
liar charge and is row in the MarshAi
all. kerfoO IL the n an who wAs ch srg-t
with rotn,ng . sio.e NJ Pilot Grove. .nt
completely il the recent robb~r; Of J. ID
StrAin's r,s,of6ce aiore .t O,terviIie.
u. e. scroeg,n- says that sbou' month
ago A J K-rioot aud &. n. Scroygi"'
we're 81 Quincy, . email village il
hickory county, selling iruu tr-es
While al Quincy tie t~O yosox ~ hoard
ed Nth . Mr.. Butches. who As drpaty
postmaster. WaIie at QHacy k~rfoo'
learned that there resided ne.r Wheat.
land = Campbell,le preacher named Mark.
Terry, who Also preached at Quincy
We. K.rfooi he ,sd the name lac asked
buicn.r aud some Others = numbrr vi ques.
,,ou. about MArks,-rry aud, Un- evening
few d.ys later, toid Bu,cner that lac wsr
very much SURPRISED u learn inst Marks.
berry VA. a pre-. ch-r, bic .use The man w.r
we'll known IL hiu. and used To te Z
mighty hard Case. kerioot vent oa 10 say
ina, some three yeaIs ego Mar~sberry
owned sew mill near Arrow hook, and
that the present reverend u-ed 10 cons
10 Se,ia,ia. get A. drunk a. . lord, ADD
have high old time generally. kerfooi
said further, that at one time, Mrs. MnKs-
berry had ru.. of with . % ,n aud gone L.
Colorado, aud ths, he woaid bet that the
Rev. Mxrk-b-rry couldn't show % sni aSe
certificate from any woman. Kerfoot wen.
into more elaborate Details, but this is the
subsi .nce Of the story, VIII ch il IL raid he
related 10 Mr.. Butcher. Mr.. b. told him
that it was a very hard story 70 tel; on I.
preacher, that the reverend gentleman "a
much respected In that Eeighborhocd, ana
finally that he ,honghi the siory vas false.
Kerfoot said: ''Jnst val, until ms partner,
Scroysins, comes back. and l w,;i prove
every word have said by him." Whei,
Scropxins came IN he said ne used TO know
Marksberry when he KEEP, the sawmi!l, and
had heard some stories about han, but he
did not know whether they were true or
not.
Kerfoot told Butche. to keep the matter
quiet and wait until Msrksberry came "a
Quincy again. and then be would confront
him before the people, and show up his
record.
Butcher let il alone for . few dave and
in the meantime K.rfOot vas absent in the
country caay ssrins. Thinking he hs'
skipped out, Butcher let out the story Ker-
foo, had tod him. 1t reached the ears OF
Mr.. Mark.berry. vino had IN in,erview
with Mr.. Butcher Mr.. NJ. pronounced
the whole story . tissue Of base and
slsntlerous fa!sehoods, N manufactured ny an
irresponsible scamp, and vent before the
proper officer snd -wose out warrants for
the arrest of both Scrosxins and K.rfoot.
When the officers went 10 look for thee,
they we're not 10 be found, and neither Of
them was arrested until long
search had had been made for them.
e. c. Scroegin< ssys his brother has
mas never b.en IN trouble excep, when he
wxs led INTO il by Kerfco,. He says
more over that the nro-ecut,ng aitorne. Of
Hickory county would not have had Scrog-
gins arrested il he had known the nature Of
the testimony against him. This is g. c.
Scroegios story. and he knows nothing
sha,.ver abou, Mr. Marksberry.
The police. the reporters and the public
of Sedsli., Who know Kerfoot, will not be
much inclined to believe any narrative re-
lated BY man Of Mr. Ksrfoot's reputation.
Ker!cot has not yet teen taken to Her.
mi,age. 1t will be a sad day for nevspa-
per reporters when something - proven
against Kerfoot.