The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-24

/ Young Colored Girl Who
Gave Birth to an nlegiti.
mate Babe Yesterday.
It ia Nearly White and She Saws
John Gregory is it's
Father

Out in the southern portion of the city.
a, the residence of an old, crippled, colored
man named Orange Sidney, there called.
yesterday morning, young colored wo-
man named Jennie Bratton, who claimed
that she was i'll and asked the privilege of
lying down for short time. Mrs. Sid.
ney was absent at the time, but the chill
dren invited the woman i'm and she was
made as comfortable as the SURROUNDINGS
would permit.
The nature of her illness soon became
apparent, for she was seized With tbs
pains OF child labor, and ere long there was
ushered into the world wee
babe whose white skin caused Dr. Carr,
the city physician, to open his ewes in as
constituent, and he no doubt thought TO
himself that there was something wrong
some place.
During the afternoon BAzOO reporter
learned Of the little ones arrival, and as it
was said the mother was 50 black that
charcoal would make white mark on her.
while the babe bore but little evidence OF
negro blood in its veins, he paid visit to
the house OF Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney and wss
soon ushered into the presence of mother
and babe, and the latter was placed on ex-
hibitiOn for his benefit.
"Are you married woman % asked the
reporter.
mo, sir, am not"
Have YOU any objections TO stating Who
is the father of your child ?"
mo, indeed. 1t is a white man named
John Gregory"
Would you be willing TO swear that
such was the case ?"
AYES, sir, L would.'
Tell me all about your relations with
this man Gregory, please"
Well, l fist becsme acquainted with
him AT Belle McGruder's, in Lincolnville,
last February year ago. and he has been
my fellow up to last Christmas, when we
had a quarrel and he got another colored
girl and cast me aside Last summer,
while he was driving team for HinsdaIe,
he paid nv board and gave me all the
loose change ne had. But after we had
the quarrel he did nothing for me, and /
have been working out since"
did he then know of your condition.
eyes. told him OF it, but he would
not assist me-"
Have you seen him latelyr'
Not for more than a month At that
time | asked him for some money, but he
refuse d to give me a cent"
Have you any relatives in Sedalia7"
Not one. don't know what will do
The people here are poor and cannot afford
TO keep me"
This concluded the conversations with
the young mother, who is now . charge on
the city. She says that she can bring
abundant proof that Gregory paid her
board all OF last summer, end Al % that she
was not criminally intimate with any other
man while she was his mistress.
The reporter also endeavOIed to obtain
Grgory's statement, but he could not Be
found, although he is at present driving
transfer wagon in the city.
LATER.
Gregory was met at the depot 1t IL
O'Clock last night BY . BAzoo man.
When asked what there was in the charge
of his being the father of the child, he de- T,
MED it emphstically, but said he Was going
to leave town on the first train, - he had !
been given to understand Miss Bratten in
tended having him arrested for bassardy.
He could beat the case, be said, ss he could
prove the woman was . notorious prosti-
tute. but he did not care TO figure in the
courts, hence would skip.
Masquerading Roughs.
A couple Of roughs considerably under
the influence Of liquor, and disguised -
negroes, one of them in female attire. en-
tered McEnroe's saloon, about 10 O'Clock
Wednesday night, and created something
of sensation. Their cOaduct becoming
quite boisterous and very offensive, he
ordered them out To this they demurred,
and force vas required to persuade them
to leave McEnroe finally losing all pa
thence, handled that brace of smart fellows
in such manner rs will cause them to re- )
member the occurrence for some time TO
come. They were fred bodily, and sneaked ;
home through the nearest alley.
A Sneak Thief snatched.
Upon the arrival of the K. 4 T. train
from the south, last night, one of the pas
sengers, who was enroute to st. Louis,
stepped into the Garrison House bar for
the purpose of refreshing himself, laying
his vaiise, with his overcast thrown across
it, on the floor near the door. A fellow
who has recently been in the employ Of
Frank Holland, the painter, followed the
stranger into the bar-roon. and watching
his opportunity, grabbed the valise and
overcoat and Lit out It his best gait, going
north on the railroad track. The engineer
of the switch engine saw the thief taking
his departure, and suspecting that some
thing was wrong he notified Depot Police
man Fessler of the occurrence. The officers
ut once started on the trail of the fleeing :
thief and overhauled him at the Star sa- !
loon, where he had broken open the valise.
taken coat thereirom and slipped it on.
and also put on the overcast He was
standing at the bar when the officer came
in and Vas at once taken to the cooler and
locked up. The gentleman who was rob-
bed remained in the city 70 appear against
the thief At his examination before the