The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-18
ROBBINS RAPE.
A Dastardly Crime Committed
Four Years Ago--The
Fiend Has Been Here
For Three Years.
He is q Brick Mason and Sailed
Under the Name Of
Joseph Smith.
The Story as Told by Detective
Norris.


Yesterdays BAzoo gave brief acooun
OF the arrival in this city of Detective JOIN
Norris, of Springfield, Ohio, on the searcl
of . man who had perpetrated one of tn
worst crimes that ever darkened the calen
der of crime The name of the das. ard no
his crime were not given for reasons thel
stated. but these reasons being removed
there is no longer further cause for sc
crecy and both are hereby published.
This morning BAzOo reporter called
on Capt. Norris, at the Garrison house
who, by the way, did not 60 west, as wa
stated in the morning paper, and from hin
CLEANED the following facts:
LITTLE PREVIOUS HISTORY.
In 1873, and for several years previous
there lived in Springfield, Ohio, a man by
the name of Milo Robbins, a shoemaker
by trade. He was a well-to-do artizan and
rs q citizen stood we'll.
In the course of events Robbins took
unto himself q wife and matrimonial fe.
licities and domestic bliss were as cheer.
fully given him as to the majority Of men
IN his condition. One day
DLASh MESSkNSEh
entered his home and Mrs. Robbins was
taken away from earth.
This Was in 1877. and for a year the
widower mourned her, to all outward
appearances, as all good husbands
should. But as Mr.. Robbins was
then only about thirty-fve years
of age and in vigorous manhood, he was as
other men are under the laws of
nature Later events proved that he was
under the power of most devilish passion.
ONE DAY A LITTLE GIRL,
Ida Kenard by name, only eight years Of
age, entered Robbins shop for the purpose
having a pair of shoes PENDED. While
there, Robbins seized her, took her into
back room and there brutality outraged her
lfrson. leaving her more dead than alive.
Ne fed, but was captured and placed on
trial. The old plea of insanity was made
and in order to prove ii, Robbins was
placed in Jail, before sentence was passed.
Before this was done he man.
eyed to escape and had not
been heard of until about a week ago, when
letter was received at Springfield from
this place. written by a man by the
NAME OF R. C. MEDIcUs,
in which it was stated that the writer
knew the whereabouts of Robbins.
The letter was placed in Capt Norris
hands and the detection of the villain en-
trusted to him.
As stated, the detective arrived in this
city yesterday morning and at once put
himself in communication with Sheriff
Conner and other officials.
ROBBINS ALIAS
Some three years ago there arrived in
Sedalia brickmason who gave the name
OF Joseph Smith. He sought and found
none suspecting that the
man was one of the blacklist villains un-
hung. He proved fair workman, and
lived quietly, the latter course, no doubt.
being deemed by him as the better for his
own safety. He didn't seem to aspire for
a stirring life.
ONE OF THE GREAT ARMY
Not long since there came to Sedalia
tthey all come to this city,, manly the
name of r. c. Medicus, claiming to be
detective. He knew Robbins. and of his
crime in Springfield, and one day he was
greatly surprised to meet him on one of
the streets.
The recognition was mutual and Smith.
alias Robbins, at once thought it would be
wise tor him to 60 further towards the
authorities at Springfield, as is stated
above.
WHERE Is ROBBINS?
After he fed from here, and before the |
arrival Of Capt. Norris, the location of
Robbins was not known, but it is now, and |
the probability is that Medicus,
who followed him, has hin. |
safely behind the bars at Emporia, Kans |
PERSONAL
The man who is following Robbins.
Capt. Norris, is a detective of national |
reputation. he has accomplished some of |
the most dangerous and difficult work of |
any one in this risky business. His ex-
plOits read like a romance, so strange and |
full of vicissitudes have they been. As a
pistol shot there is, probably, no man
more expert than he. Yesterday afternoon |
at the hotel he entertained the reporter |
and another gentleman by exhibitions of |
his skill as a marksman, shooting the |
ashes from the end of cigar, held in the
hand, across the room, with his revolver;
splitting bullets on a knife blade held up |
the same distance away, and other similar
tricks. AS a proof of his skill In this
direction, he wears handsome diamond |
medal, presented by the Highland House,
Springfield. January /, 1879, at a prize
shoot, the captain winning at sixty-six
feet.
Houses Demolished at Hepler.