The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-10-17
SAD FOR SHARP.
A Citizen of Warsaw CLAIMS
That His Domestic Hap
piness Has Been Ruin
ed by Designing
Men.
A First-Class Scandal Involving
Several Prominent Citizens
of the Capital of Ben
ton County.

Mr.. Robert Sharp, of Warsaw, until
recently the proprietor OF the City hotel 1t
that place, was in the city yesterday morn
ing, and had sad story of domestic in
felicity to relate to BAZOO reporter, whom
he CHANGED to meet. MIR Sharp says that
he has been in the employ Of butcher by
the name of Milt Drake, and that his wife,
in whose name all of their property WAS
vested, has had the management
of the hotel, while he was
engaged in his daily occupation of .
butcher.
For some time, according to Sharp's
story, a party of sports, consisting of sew
eral influential and well-known citizens of
the place, have sorely, against his will,
been using private apartment in his
hotel for gambling room. He says that
he has kicked vigorously against this
thing. but that his wife has apparently
been bulldozed by the sporting gentlemen,
and that he has been in no condition to
help himself.
Last Wednesday he went home to din
ner, as usual, about twelve O'Clock, and
found that two of the gamblers were en-
gagged in playing cards in one of the rooms
of his house He naturally fell riled, and
proposed to fire them without ceremony,
when his wife advised him not to enterthe
room, telling him if he did he would get
the top Of
HIS HEAD SHOT OFF.
This, as might naturallybe expected, pre-
vented him from interfering further, and
the gamblers were allowed to remain I'M
mo,ested until they got ready to leave
On the following day, Mrs. Sharp in
formed her husband that one of the parties
who had been converting his house into .
gambling den, had made the proposition
to her that If she would abandon him, he
and another party whom he mentioned
would provide for her and her twin chill
dren, girls, aged about thirteen years, in .
handsome manner. This, Mrs. Sharp says,
she Indignantly rejected. She also in
formed her husband that one of the par
ties, in her opinion,
HAD IMPROPER DESIGNS
on her oldest daughter, a girl about fifteen
years of age, and that she had seen him
talking to her in very familiar manner,
although she had seen nothing which she
cOuldssay was out of the way.
Sharp was very closely questioned BY
the reporter as to whether he bad ever sus-
pected any of the parties OF whom he
complains, of criminal intimacy with his
wife or eldest daughter. He replied en-
pha,ically that he knew rothing wrong
about his wife and ii She had been guilty
of in6ielity to him he did not know it. As
to the girl, he said he did not know how
she had been conducting herself, but that
she was. as vet, only child, and that the
idea of her falling a victim of these men
had never entered his head
Mrs Sharp was a widow when she mar
ried her present husband, and the mother
of the children heretofore mentioned.
After the occurrences of Wednesday and
Thursday last, Mr.. Sharp summari1y
BROKE Up HOUSEKEEPING,
and removed his family to the residence
of his b-Other-in-law, who resides between
Windsor and Warsaw. He seemed all
broke up while talking to the reporter,
and very bitter against the men whom he
claims have been attempting to destroy his
family.
The names of the parties whom Sharp
holds responsible for his present unhappi-
ness are in the possession of the reporter,
but not having an opportunity to hear but
one side Of the story and as the BAzOO
never intentionally does any one injustice,
they are suppressed fOs the present.
II all Of Sharp's statements are to be re-
lied on, a dish OF scandal which will stir
Mrs. Grundy's heart to its inHermost re-
cesses with delight, may be expected from
Warsaw, ere the end of this matter N
reached.