The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-10
ROCKED THE RANCH.
Mollie Vests Castle Stoned
by Unknown Parties
Friday Night.
The Doors and Windows Battered
In While the Madam
Was Absent.

Some days ago Mollie West notorious
courtezan, who has been renting rooms in
different portions of the city for months
past, leased q one-story frame house on
Grand avenue of Mr.. Frank Gibbons, the
owner, and at once moved her traps in and
announced herself as ready for traffic.
from the neighbors, and Mollie was not
long In ascertaining that her room was
much preferable to her company. She re-
manned but three days in he2 new quarters,
when she learned that an effort was being
made by q number of respectable people to
get rid of her, so she locked the doors and
took trip to Kansas City. where she re.
manned until Thursday night, when she ne
turned With q man whom she clsimed was
her husband. She at once repaired 10 her
home on Grand avenue, where she spent
the night with her alleged husband, and on
Friday morning came down town.
OF course her return was the signal for q
second howl to ascend, and the residents of
the street on which the "castle" is located
arose in body and determined she should
vacste the place.
About noon on Friday, Mollie and her
alleged husband came down town, and
while walking along Main street were ar
rested by Officers Wentzleman and Barnett
and taken to the cooler, where charges of
vagrxncy and lewd conduct were prefer d
against Mollie, while the man was dis
charged.
Later in tie day lMollie was released on
bond, but instead Of going home, spent the
night elsewhere.
knowing thst the West woman had re-
turned with the intention of remaining,
several Of the more brash of the residents
on Grard avenue took it upon themselves
to get rid of her. and took the matter in
their own hands.
Between 9 and 10 o'clock Friday night
the "castle" was visited by q number of uu-
known parties, who at oEce began bonn
bardment of the house, battering in the
doors, breaking the windows, and d. mol
isking things generally, and when Mollie
returned, about 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, she realized that Grand avenue was no
place for her to hang out any longer. She
at once removed her things to some other
point, and when the west-bound train ar
rived she boarded il, saying she was going
to Kansas City.
In conversation with BAzOo reporter,
while at the depot, the harlOt said she had
no idea who the parties were that had
wecked her home. She claimed that they
broke several articles of furniture, and a
lsdy's gold watch chain was carr ed off by
them. She hsd never conducted a dis
orderly house, she said, and why she
should be driven out and much worse wo
mn permitted to remain was beyond her
She was most emphatic
in saying that she was done with Sedalia
forever, and the BAzO0 hopes that such
may be the case.
OF course the BAzoo does not endorse the
action of the parties who demolished the
prostitutes residence, but they probably
realized that the officers of the Law would
moi take immediate action to rid the COM
munity of the woman's presence, 50 they
took the task upon themselves and sue
ceeded even beyond their fondest anticips-
tions. But all is we'll that ends we'll.