The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-21
WHO STOLE THEM?
A Very Peculiar Transaction
About Some important
Legal Papers.

Legal PAPERS.
IL is wrong to class all lawyers a. thieves,
Just a. much so As il is to say that all mer
chants steal. But il is certain that the
legal profession has some very black sheep
i'm IL, and that these fellows will stOOp To
tricks that are not only sharp, but down.
right dishonest
One iavor,te scheme with these bralniess
and generally brieile>s lawyers, is TO steal
important papers IN cases I'm which they
fortunately are employed Ia do dirty work,
and thereby gain points and delays which
they are poverless To- effect In ? manly and
straightforward way
On NOR, than one occasion IN the his
tory oi this county very important papers
have been stolen ana strayeh; though IL
has been too difficult To prove just who did
! IL, suspicion has fastened OH more than one
| attorney al the bar but rs vet no one has
been ;ried for such thef's.
\ recent case oi this kind has just come
10 light in this city, and the question is,
who took the papers? AS is we'll known,
the case of the State VS.. Charles Allsn,
whose troubles have been fully published,
was sci for this term of he criminal court
4
/ fore Squire Fisher, where he gave bond
Tor his appearance before the higher
court, having as his bOndsmen ;. l..
Highleyman and Stringer and Shobe. The
proper papers were made out by the JUS
tice and duly filed away in one Of his
drawers.
AT the proper time the prosecuting attor-
new called ON Squire Fisher for them, but
In
had removed" item from the place where
they had been deposited.
squire Fisher hunted his office all ever,
and searched every drawer, nook and hole,
! took up the carpet, examined the key
holes, peered into the stove and up the
stove pipe, bu, not sign or sight of the
! pasers could he get. Where were they
and who cook them, were two questions
which, like Banquo's ghost, would not
down. That someone had stolen them,
there was no doubt.
MIR III ard, after the search had proven
unavainng, then told the justice to make
out the papers from memory, stating the
necessary facts, and serd such to the
grand jury This was done, and the
efforts To battle the prosecution was check
mated.
But what was Squire Fishers surprise,
the other morning when he went to his
Office, To 6nd the missing and stolen
papers, quietly resting on the doOr-knob,
on the outside of the door.
| This was more mystery, and the plot
thickened, to use stage expression. Who
put them there? And why were they re-
turned? The former question will, prob
ally, never be satisfactorily answered, and
the only reliable one just now TO the latter
is that the party who took them consulted
with some one wiser than he, maybe more
honest, also, and found out that the theft
would avail nothing in the way OF prose
cutting the case, hence their quiet and IN
| observed return.
| Ii is not charged that any attorney took
these papers, but it is charged that some
body aid.
Two Young Men Who Went West
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
They were two recently Matched Harvard
graduates, and had caught a severe touch
of the ranch fever They had made definite
arrangements for making a millior apiece
and returning in good order at the end OF
three wears Three weeks later a pair oil
miserable objects crawled into an eastern
hotel and were rescued during the bouncs
process administered BY the porter and
clerk) by new-iiedged senior, who amidst
| the fiutteriug tatiers recognized the would
be milliOnaires
well, how about the Dillion?"
Million he [expurgated1."
Why did you come back
Don't talk west To me the night We
arri red they put US In co~-shed To sleep
We didn't mind that so much, bul then the
next morning We were bounced out of BED
at five and treated to gutta percha bread
fossil pork, and mud and wat. r, that they
called coffee, then they put US TO work"
"Well, you must have enjoyed that, IN
terrupted he OF The box-pleat jacket and
cigarette; "the wild rush of the spirited
mustsug over the howery plains, the"
"Wild rush of the 1Owery jackass, re-
| turned the leader of the two scsrecrows
''ihe work was currying mules. We curri,.C
mules before breakfast, curried mules ill
Ginner, cur-ied mules till supper. Had &c
go without the use of one eve after second
day. Mule switched his tail into il. Sc,
that bruise Exhibiting a large contusionl
Wind from mules hoof did that IL tn,
hoof had hit me / wouldn't be here"
"But the pay was high?" family urged
the eastern youth.
Pay. They paid us IS cents day We
Melted just 81 30 apiece, and then lit on
for hume, To- grow old with the country
You can make more money digging CLANS
on Chelsea beach than you can in that
blasted country. Oh, want to find some
one talking up the west, / do"