The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-16
Solution of the st. Louis
Sensation.
Miss Garrison Restored to
Family and Friends.
Chloroformed and Abducted
by Roughs
For the Purpose Of Obtaining
Ransom Money.
Conflicting Statements Regard
ing This Sensation.

Democrat of Yesterday.
Miss Zerelda Garrison has succeeded In
making great noise Ia the community.
She is seventeen years old, aud possessed of
q face and figure that are attractive. The
daughter Of Mrs. Abraham Garrison, OF
Eirkweod, she has wealthy relations and
an elegant home and surrounded by every
influence calculated to refine, and
GRANTED EVERY INDULGENCE
consonant with her position in life, it was
not expected that she would ever achieve
the giewin, uotoriety that is to-day asse-
ciated with her name. She was q pupil at
the Maryviile convent Of the Sacred Heart,
and, after spending the hold Tvs among her
family here, started to return to the con-
vent last Saturday afternoon. She came
down to Fifth and Olive streets at o'clock
from the residence of her uncle at 344l
4!ive. with her sister. Mrs. Norris. Miss
Lily Harrison, another relative, accom-
panied them as far as Sixth and Olive. Miss
Ierelda got on a Fifth street car going
south-the conductor of the car says it was
about I.07 m-and proceeded In the
direction of Mxryville, which is probably
an hours ride from the court house. The
Young lady had been going to the Mary
willie academy about year, but her pre-
vious trips to and from the school had
been made in ner uncle's carriage. One
Of thu carriage horses they say, had dis
al ed hip last Saturday, and Miss Zerelda,
having desire to "try the street car fer
once she went in that manner, and got
safely as far as the Wild Hunters saloon
at the lower terminus Of the Fifth street
Tina Tboro he ctArv ufsAG the co0d an n
pointed eat the car starter. q gentle
man named Lewis, as capable Of furnish
;ng Information she was seeking in regard
to the direction she should take to reach
the convent The starter told her hsw TO
proceed. and she
MOVED FROM CARONDNLET AVENUE,
az he directed. Four suspicious looking
men followed her, and it is related that
one Of this villainous quartet had his ad
miration for the young lady aroused to
such . pitch that he remsrked loud
enough to be heard, th at "she was q daisy,
abiding, of course, to her personal ap-
pearauce. She never reached the convent.
On Thursday morning her uncle, Mr.. o.
L. Garrison, learAing that Miss Zerelda
was not at Maryville; neither was she ut
her Kirkwood home, nor with any Of her
relatives. he inquired In every possible
direction for her, snd at last. at q O'Clock
&C night, laid the case before the chief Of
police and his staff of detectives. He
ceuid offer no theory or make no sugses-
tien as to her whereabouts or possible fate.
He feared that the girl had been most
foully dealt with, and was certain tn at, if
alive, she did not STAY away from her peo-
pie Of her own volition. Having secured
the services Of the police Air. Garrison
next turned his attention to the newspa-
pers He believed that by withholding
the statement of her disappearance for
twenty-four hours the police department
might be able to restore the missing girl to
her family, and thus spare them the
double affection of her loss and the pub
kcity which it entailed.
The story was spread before the public
however, with startling and picturesque
details, and the most heartrending cencln
sions were drawn as to the manner In
which the quartet Of villains, seen following
Miss Garrison at therailway terminus, had
disposed of her mangled remains, or were
Aaking her existence a miserable exper
ieacr somewhere in some terrible den oi
bondage. Yesterday the Garrisons. their
friends and associates in business, the po
lice the newspaper men and others inter
ested in the disappearance, hunted up and
afterward
HUNTED DOWN CERTAIN CLEws.
A telegram from Kirkwood received
early in the afternoon by Mr.. Charles J
Norris brought the consolatery informa
zion to the girls family that she was alive
and in the city. She had written lette,
dated Thursday, to cousin at Kirkwood
The letter was received yesterday and i'm
Wediately the wires carried the welcome
news to Miss Zerelda's grieving relatives.
Then the rumor few wildly and got into
print thai negotiations were pending be
1ween the villainous abductors and heI
Sncle, Mr.. Garrison, for the young lady.
yeturn. About o'clock q man put in ar
appearance at 344l Olive, and stated
that he could direct her friend.
70 the very house in which missing girl wa.
finding shelter. The man with the infor
nation was held until Mr.. D K. Ferguson
and . detective arrived, when carriage
vas ordered and the three we're driven tc
Mrs Fannie LEWIS furnished rooms house
at no Wash. The door was opened and
the detective, Mr.. Ferguson and their
guide went UP to the second floor, searched
the rooms, came down stairs and searched
the rest of the house, but the bird VA.
Aown-the cage was empty. Detectives
gusrded every possible exit. She had lief
che house with Mrs. Levy just before Mr.
Ferguson's arrival, and while the Officer.
held possession of No. 7ls Wash, Miss lie
THE THIRD DISTRICT POLICE STATION.
whittier Mrs. Levy had directed her. Sh,
had been in Mrs. Levy's house ever sine,
about o'clock last Saturday afternoon
occupying the second story front room, ant
had gone to the station under circumstan
in another way BY the landlady.
RESTORED WITHOUT A RANSOM.
The Garrison mansion, 344l Pine street
vas crowded al day with the femal,