The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-14
THE MORNING MENU,
With an Afternoon Matinee at the
Recorders Court-Much Cry
But Little Wool.

There was the promise of quite sensa-
ton at the police court yesterday morning.
and Recorder Fraker was greeted by nu-
merous gathering OF the clans. The air
was full of rumors of robbery, sharp tricks
played OH the unsuspecting and, what Is
always a treat To police Court habitues, the
arrest and appearance OF some of the demi-
monde But when the gavel of authority
fell and silence came DER the motley crowd,
expectation soon fell to sickening disap-
polntment, and disgust was above par.
"Mr. MITCHELL" said his honor, "you
are charged with disturbing the peace !;
guilty or not guilty." But Mr.. Mitchell
was too booty TO understand even plain
English. and was SD informed by the re-
corder Then he began to jaw back, and
for his Sass" he was fined five dollars and
taken below. Later lin the day he paid the
fine and went TO his place of business, the
Star saloon He will have a further hear
ing Tomorrow morning.
George Bartlett and John ID. Walker
were next called tn an account The
charge was being found i'm house where
virtue is stranger and wOmanly modesty
bushes To be seen or even mentioned. To
this charge both these gentlemen plead
guilty, and a fine of ten dollars each was
written against their names Bartlett welt
to the rock pile To pay his. There was Il
STAY of execution granted i'm Walkers
case. as he was from the country and didn't
know that he was in free and easy" But
before the recorder and city attorney got
through with this innocent % specimen
from Moniteau county, they gritted their
teeth and wished they had
HELD HIM,
for he was wanted as witness against
Mollie Blue, Mary McIienry and Allie
Fry, the three wretched females he visited,
and where he said he lost fifty dollars and
a silver watch, the night before. The
time of trial of these fly" girls, who
had been arrested by Detective DE Long.
at Walkers instigation, was set down for
= o'clock in the afternoon, and Walker
promised To remain. But lac didn't. there
by showing that he Is a sharper and
beat.
At the afternoon aSSemblage there was a
larger crowd than the morning
hour witnessed. BY actual count
there were forty-nine men and
a kid. and all were deeply interested in the
promised proceedings. But there was
again disappointment for the clan, for the
trial Of the girls was again postponed, this
time until tomorrow morning, and In de-
fault of bail they were locked up. The
charge against these fallen women is sim
ply that of keeping, and being inmates of,
a bawdy house There was nothing about
the reported robbery, and il may he safely
said, there was no robbery. Walkers
watch was found i'm his satchel he was
drunk Friday night and there are plenty
OF buns who watch for just such chaps as
he to supply them with liquor money.
Mollie Blue is way down i'm the scale, but
as she has paid her fine this month, il
looked strange that she should be SD Sc
vcrely dealt with. But the authorities
know their duty, and it is only for the re-
porter &c state facts
Alex. Holland, man of ebOn hue, did
no more than hundreds of the best men i'm
Sedalia do, viz he carried pistol, but he
was unfortunate enough to get caught and
so paid fine of ten dollars.
Press Grover, an old man, was up for
plain drunk, and oh pleading guilty To the
charge, was fined five dollars. The saddest
part of his case was when he was visited
by his wife, poorly clad little woman. al
ter he was behind the bars. Ii was touch
ing sight, and one that moved the sympa-
Ihies of officers and reporters very warmly
towards that little woman rs she hu,riedly
talked to the man she called husband.
Tod pity such wires.