The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-14
HAWTHORNE HELD.
he Comes from the Sucker
State to Enjoy the Free
dom of Missouri, but
Finds Himselfin
the Tolls
The Lamar Sensation Which the
Bazoo Reporter Caught on
to" Yesterday.

A BAzoo reporter was in Lamar, Barton
county, yesterday, and while there struck
trail which he followed with the usual
persistence and success SO characteristic OF
the news gatherers OF the paper published
for the people now on earth. The stery
he here relates, SO far as the facts de-
velOped are concerned, is simply a story
gathered from the lips of the interested
parties themselves and smacks largely of a
sensation, though the full denouement
will not be reached until the principal
actor in the drama meets his accusers in
the Sucker state.
CHAPTER FIRST.
One day, some three weeks ago, the pop
uiation OF Lamar was increased by the
arrival Of two persons, one a man, giving
his name as that OF Robert Hawthorne, the
other, of course, a woman. claiming the
proud honor of being Mrs. Robert Haw-
thorne The Ostensible husband is a man,
so he says, thirty years of age, the al
legged wife blushingly admitting that
she had seen twenty-five summers
They said they were from Illinois,
Missouri, had determined to come to the
land flowing with milk and honey. Quietly
and smoothly their life moved on its way
and no nosey scandal monger found aught
against them. But they concluded to seek
a more retired home and so, after tarrying
short while in Lamar, moved out to the
little country village of Milford, where
they settled down to housekeeping. But,
alas, for human hopes and calculations,
they are as unstable as water and as de-
ceptive as a chinaman. So Hawthorne
found and his woes are told in
CHAPTER SECOND.
Last Saturday Sheriff Springer received
the following telegram:
CHANDLERvILLE, ILL.,, Feb. 4, 'S2.
Sheriff Barton County, Lamar, No:
Arrest Robert Hawthorne at or near
Milford. I will send for him. Answer.
(Signed) LEVI DICK.
On Sunday Sheriff Springer went out to
Milford and arrested Hawthorne at the
house where he and his paramour were
living and brought him to Lamar and
and lodged him in Jail. The story OF the
affair seems about as follows:
When the woman was quite young she
married man by the name OF Campbell,
who lived with her few years and then
left her. After that she was living with
her uncle, Levi Dick, when she made the
acquaintance of Hawthorne. She is rather
weak minded and Hawthorne or some
other designing and unprincipled man led
her astray and accomplished their base
purpose, and it is surmised that he brought
her to the quiet and seclusion Of this Sec
tiOn for
DOUBLE PURPOSE.
First, to hide her fast approaching
shame from those with whom she had
lived and the neighborhood in which she
was raised, and second, to gain possession
Of about $4,000 in money and property
which it Is alleged she is worth in her own
right, but which is now in the custody of
honest and upright friends in Illinois.
The BAzOO representative interviewed
Hawthorne in the Lamar Jail, yesterday.
He did not seem to fear to return to H.
linois and face his accusers, but he said
very little about the charge against him
in fact, the authorities at Lamar do not
see what there is in the story told to hold
the accused on, unless there is something
more than the bare fact of decamping
from the Sucker state and living with the
woman out of wedlock. Hawthorne will
be held until an officer arrives with q
reouisitiou to take him back to Illinois.