The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-01-25
Is IT DISCRETION I?
A Father and Son Who Have
Skipped Out.
He Takes His Son From the Pub
lie Schools and Disappears
in q Mysterious Manner.

Yesterday evening il wls rnmcred On
the streets that Lawrence l.. Il Fr, an srti-
IAN of most excellent habits and repuie-
ton, had disappeared from { city in a
very mysterious manner. Tho BAzuo, de-
siring TO get the truth OF the matter, in
strucled one OF its reporters TO get on the
trail Of the item and run it DOWN, dead or
alive. According TO ip-lruci,ons one OF
tae reporters put . revolver in each
boo: and q howie knife up each sleeve,
and after pessaD; ramble Of
about three mills through Eas,
Sedsiia, Just south o; the rognd house, he
got himself 30 swfully tangled W in :he
multiplicity Of streets and Kind directions
that we're giTen TO hIm IN answer 10 nu
rperous inquiries, taat he Was compelled TO
cali upon = re,isb,e friend who has helps /
the pencil pushers in many hard pinch.
in company with this safe guide the "a
porter was conducted through the darkne a.
and snow to . neat cottage or Fifth s:reei,
Two blocks east of Engineer street. 4 gen.
tie and difident knock at the front door
brought no respOnse, save an angry do.
from the back yard, who Game very near
eating the knocker up without taking hi.
boots of or giving him tilne 10 say hi-
prayers. Finally, . large, handsome,
black-haired, matroniy locking woman sp-
peared at the door aud asked III. tusine -
OF the inquirer. After prcpoui.ding nu-
merous inquiries the following facts were
obtained
Lawrence L. Zerr has been sick for Eve
OK elk DAYS, and had remained in the house
the greatest part of the time. Ca friday
suseh.,,e on-sks.,
wife a. to where be was going, he left his
home. His wife thought he was goirg to
the Missouri Pacific shops. The next that
was heard of him he appeared at the pub
lic school building, just south OF the old NJ +,
K. 4 T. general Office. and inquired for his
son, an intelligent ard very sprightiy boz
about twelve years of age. After some
conversation togei her, the father and son
between whom a lender and deep siectior
exists, left the school.
From that time until ten o'clock last
night no one in the city has seen either Of
them. Mrs. Zerr is left with three small
children to take csre of. She says she
knows of 10 csuse why her husband should
leave his home. He his always, acco: d.
ing to her represen, attic n, lived nQost hap
PLY with his family, b: 4 no financial diff
cuities and seemed TO be a model family
man. TIE gAzoo reporter interview ! sew
eral persons who knew Zerr we'll. He was
an excellent workman, very prompt in pay
ing all his debts, thrifty. economical, indn--
trious and peemcd devote to his family. lie
was q very quiet man, with look o; Gu
liar thoughtfulness upon bis count .nar e
and somewhat eccentric in his manners.
His boy, Who went away with him, was
one of unusually quick intelligence and
seemed to inherit all the good qualiiis OF
his father. The only infe ence iast can [ /.
drawn from the facis il ; At the man, who
WAS of p culisr tenn -nent, b.; b. n
affected mentally by recent lin :,
and while in this morL.I condition has
been seized BY q sudden and disea- j de-
sire, which he could no. control, and gone
Of simiessly. When ths knock was
heard on the front door, tie thiee children
remaining sprang up and rushed in'o the
hall Of the house crying, 'Oh, mo ier
maybe that is papa coae home" The
wife seems confident that her husbE I'd will
return. Howev: T, in the light Of the r. =
ent fsc.., the disappearance of both father
and con ia at once sad and CT iCus.
BAzoo hopes that it may al come {,
right.
LArEa.-Zsrr bad a chs elk for
months wages cashed the morning be L.
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