The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-10
A DASTARDLY DEED
Was That Attempted by
William Metz, of This
City,
Who is Accused of an Attempt
to Ruin a Young and
Ignorant Girl.


we'll developed for her age. She is the
daughter Of Nick Worth, German stone
mason an honest and industrious man,
but occasionally z wen to too free Use of the
flowing bowl. Unfortunately for the peace of
this world, there are number of dastardlv
villains, always laying in wait for The un-
wary and for various motives attempting
to compass the ruin of the ignorant anu
unsuspecting.
To this class of ghou!s belongs William
Metz. the driver of city express wagon.
Metz had noticed the young and unsophis
ticated girl, and has attempted to use her
for his base purposes. If it were to graft
fy his own beastly lust, il would be bad
enough, bnt The case becomes still more
aggravated when Metz, for the
mere purpose of gain attempts.
as he did, to prostitute the girl, ard to
make her victim of the lustful -sires of
unprincipled men.
There are no words in the English lam
guage which can convey the feeling of con-
tempt, of scorn, of loathing for beast i'm
the garb Of man guilty of such an outrage
as that with which Metz is charged. A pimp
lis too low to even merit censure. because his
own acts place him so low in the scale
of humanity that his name is never men
tioned in connection even with that of q
weli.behaved dog
Metz at various times has invited this
igno. ant girl to ride with him I'm his wag-
on, which invitation she has several times
accepted. The unprincipled beast, accord
ing to the girls statement, toll her if she
would only do as he directed she could
make more money than her father could
ever hope TO, and that she would not be
harmed. The girl, though very ignorant,
as stated, was not SO green hut that she was
able to tumble and reported the case to
her father, who Immediately sought County
Attorney Heard, to whom he made full |
statement of the facts in the case That
official, and doubtless with the best of mo- |
tives, advised the grieved and indignant |
father not TO swear out a warrant against |
Metz, and thus avoid a scandal. The ad- |
vice OF the prosecuting attorney was taken |
and Metz will not be arrested.
later.
Bill Metz, driver of an express wagon,
whose disgusting conduct in the role Of a
pimp was referred to in yesterdays issue
of the BAzOo, was boiling over with rage
when tine article was shown him, and those
who witnessed his demonstrations were OF
the opinion that blood would be shed ere
many minutes had passed. He proclaim
ed 10 the entire populace that the whole
BAZoO staff should DE- subjected TO chastise-
ment, and as he uttered the Boosting words
he evidently imagined he had reporter
under each heel and was grinding the life
out Of him.
About $50 a. m. reporter of the BAZoo
was passing north On OHIO street, when he
noticed Metz driving south on the same
thoroaghiare. Instantly the scribe pic
tured to himself bloody battle. from
which Metz would emerge with flying
co'ors. HaiiDg the reporter, Metz drove
up to the curbstone, but there Was no claret
in his eye and the reporter felt somewhat
composed.
"That article in your paper this morn
ing about me-" said Metz, SIS a id lie,
and il has got to be corrected"
$50 p queried the reporter WHATS
wrong with it, most gracious William"
Its all wrong-a pack of Id lies. and
you have got TO correct it" ,
Assuring Metz that if the BAzoo had !.
done him an Injustice the desired correc- !
ton would be made, he was asked to give .
his version of the affair, which he did i'm
the following language, as can he attested D,
by Officer Gossage, who was present dur :
ing the interview, evidently thinking the
writer's life in dan er:
"Well, it's this way. Nick Worth the
stone mason. has daughter named Rosa, :
who attracts considerable attention on the :
itreets, frcm The fact that nearly every :
time she passes man she turns around to .
look after him. A drummer was here
last Saturday and saw her on the street.
Rosa watched after him, attracting his at
tention, and he approached me and asked 7
who she was. told him, and ne asked ME
if l would get her to go buggy riding with =
MIN. He said he would paw me for nv )
rouble and would give her S. if she would
AXE ride with him and submit to his
desires.
81 told him would see if I could get p
ner to 60 with him. went up to her and g
told her what the drummer had said, when y
she asked his name. 1 told her did not \
know, as had never seen him before. She
hen called me d id rascal and dog, and
said she would tell her father.
II told her she ought not to be mad at o
ne, as did not want anything, but had IL
merely spoken for the drummer. e
That was all said to her, and do moi Il
hink there was anything wrong in it," II
concluded Metz, and he looked In every Il
the miserable whelp that he is g
did the father of the girl say anything n
o YOU about the AFFAIR."" asked the re- ii
porter" u,
''1es, he asked me what Ihad said TO his in
laughter, and when told him, he said he al
Eas going to have me arrested. but he did h
ot" t.
Didn't yon know that you were liable II
0 prosecution in doing what you did ?" M
"No, did not don't think did any, o.
hing wrong. did not want 10 have any, cs
hing TO do with the girl myself, but was Il
nerely speaking for the drummer is
"Iou wanted to make a couple of dol Gu
ars, them" &c
"No, was not after the money particu- th
arly, although would have taken it if al
Rosa had consented to meet the man." in
The above is Metz statement almost is