The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-02
Finding Herself Soon to Be-
come a Mother, She
Comes to Sedalia
And for q Time is Cared for at
the Working Woman's
Home.
Last Night She was Furnished AS
sistance and Sent to
Lying-in Hospital.

Sitting I'm the ladies waiting room Il,
the Garrison house depot, last night, WAS
woman waiting ior the east-bOund Mis-
s"uri Pacific train. This fact, oi itself,
was not significant. but there was >ome-
thing about her appearance that caused
a BaZOo reporter to- imagine that an item
lurked around in the vicinity, and hi, sus-
picions were confirmed Il little later bv
policeman saving that the city was
furnishing her with transportation to ~,
living i'm hospitals.
This much ascertainet, the victim oi
mans wiles was approached and ked II
she had anv objection To making known
her troublc>. Di course >he was averse to
30 doing III fr>j. bnt the golden opportunity
wa> not to he missed, AMI by dint of much
persuasion on the part OF the reporter, she
at last consented Ten relate her misfortunes
and. all the details connected Herewith
Her name has hone eli the rom ance, be-
ing plain Sallie Jones' The daughter oi
poor parents. she iirs, saw the light of day
In ta>S county, this state, where she was
lett an orphan at an early age
From that time forward her life
has been one III poverty and toll,
and now, AT the age OF twenty-five.
she finds herself about To- become mother
without being either wife or widow.
Last August she was working i'm the
family vi Mr.. O,i.the proprietor of coun-
try store ten miles from BOonville, in
sooper county. In that nei ghborhood
lived Bob Cooper, young man twenty
one years oi age, and her second cousin
They had known each other since child
hood and IL was no more than natural that
she had learned to love him. and placed
every confidence i'm what he told her On
Saturday, the 18th day of August, Sallie
and Bob attended a moonlight picnic held
i'm their vicinity, and on this occasion the
latter's true nature was developed; for, un-
der promise of marriage, he succeeded In
gaining her consent to surrender that
priceless Jewel. virtue. and from that time
until the present she has had ample cause
for repentance.
But few weeks had elapsed after the
above mentioned episode before young
Cooper was arrested on the charge of rob-
bery AMI attempted murder, and until
about three months ago he was an inmate
of the Cooper county Jail. When circuit
court convened, Cooper was arranged on
fenced To three years Imprisonment, in the
penitentiary, where he now is. When
Cooper first became. involved in the meshes
of the law his victim.S Miss Jones, conclu-
dea To- leave the neighborhood where she
had me, her downfall, and Tor the mex q
few Ronths she worked for different
families in Boonville. Two months ago
she reached Sedalia. and at once visited
the Working Woman's home. She did not
inform the matron of her condition, con-
sequently no difficulty was experienced in
procuring for her a situation with family
residing In the southern portion of the
city, where she remained until last week.
The lady OF the house at last had her sus-
picions aroused that Sallie was in an in
ter.sting condition, and accused her of So
being on course denial was useless, and
she confessed all
1t was then decided that the best thing
under the circumstances would be to send
her to- a lying-in hospital In ~. Louis, and
Mayor Craycroft was consulted with He
agreed to furnish transportation. and last
night Saliie left for that city, with only a
few dsllars in her possession, where, with
in the next few weeks, her child will be
born
Her case is, indeed, sad one, Tut is
such as We read OF daily, and so, We sup
pose. it will continue to the end of time.
Before yielding to the solicitations of
Cooper, she knew not sorrow, although
poverty crowded down upon her; now,
however. her cup of misery is full, and
until death closes her eyes she will be but
IN Outcast.
But let us draw the veil OF charity
around her and wish that it might be
otherwise.