The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-16

,erday they ordered me 10 write Il my par
EMS, telling tiem that II they would send
! ,rge ransom ! would be released. other
wise ! won &c kept prisoner ala indefinite
length o! time. l refused and they told
ne thew would keep me there then. All
this slime they were careful not 10 let M
see the papers. This evening the woman
came 10 me and showed lie ihe paper coa-
iainiug an scco.nt OF. NV disappearance
and said she would let me escape. She
supposed the two fellows would br angry
bu; it was not riynt to keen me that way.
So she took me down stairs and let me out
an alley gate. She would not SHOW me
the way, bat told me TO "a TO the police
station. l don't know now i went.
know nothing about this part OF the CITY
don't even know the names OF the streets
and l vent through alleys and every way.
was scared they might catch me again.
II seems 20 me ii was three blocks that
y"--pointing north-"and three blocks
that way"-pointins cas-. Sup that way"
-north-"l met q man and .ksd him
where the station was. last came mp sha'
way"-indicating Carr street from the
east.
TIE LANDLADY's STORY
The house in which Miss Garrison spent
the time during her absence is . bright
two story brick structure. on the north side
of WISH, one door from the corner OF
Eighth. Its number is 10. Notwith-
standing the horrible reputation that is
borne by the neighborhood, there are
MANY RESPECTABLE FAMILIES
residing there, AID Mrs. Fannie Levy. who
occupies No. 719; nd:rents cut furnished
ros.s ",o gentlemen only," is clasSed
aneng the people who names bear no, the
slightest tarn:sh. She has lived in this
house for several months, and no breath of
susricion has ever blown against her es:ab-
lishment. Until yesterday she was get
ting along quietly and nicely ia the world:
and had no fear that her house would At
tract aHy more attention than the notice OF
some passing gentleman who might want
q furnished room. Last night she was IN
a whirl of excitement and gave way freely
to tears when q Globe Democrat reporter
called 10 ask for her version OF the ci-cum-
stances attending Miss Gsrrispa's sojonrn
in her house. She was afaid the affair
would bring herself, her mother and her
asserted that il was no blame Of her, that
she he'd harbored Miss Garrison during
the time that the young lady's friends and
relatives were srieving over her absence.
Mrs Levy is q young widsw. Her mother.
Mrs. Wittle;n, assists her in keeping The
household in order; and there is also
Young SON OF Mrs. Wi,tlein in the house.
Mrs. Levy rents ont the second door. and
a very nice. cosy and comic, liable place.
The mother and daughter occupy the front
pa, lor. the boy sleeps in the hack parlor.
L ,dsers are furnished with the night keys,
and come and 60 at their OWE pleasure.
This preliminary explanation is necessary
in view of The statements made BY the two
ladies to the reporter After assuring
Mrs. Whittlein, who was the only person
in The house when the newspaper man
called, that she would be properly pro
tected in print,
SHE GAVE HER STORY.
LAST Saturday four men came here"
said Mrs. Whittleir, "snd engaged the
tive rooms mp stairs-ihe front and back,
They paid in advance Sc, and the four re-
NAMED until the following Thursday,
when two Of them weat-;hey said to
Chicago. The men said they were tele-
phone or telegraph operators. | know
nothing about them except what they
said, and they said very little. They were
there at night, and occasionally came i'm
during the day. One was tall and thin,
two were tall and stout aud the other Was
niedium-sized man al slim build. The
tall, SLIM fellow went sway with one OF the
stout ones, called Jack, on Thursday (4th }
and did not return. He said o. had a let
ter from his mother aud was going TO her
Jack came back Monday.
"In the meantime the girl got int the
house. Neither myself nor my daughter
saw her come i'm, and the FIRST we kneAT
about her being here was about dusk last
Saturday-mavbe little after o o'clock
when the big man, Jack, cane down and
said something funny had happened. We
asked what ii was, and he answered that
Frank had gone out on one train 10 meet
his wife, and she had come In or another,
and WAS now up stairs. We were sur
prised Fannie, my daughter, wen; mp
stairs and was introduced 10 the young
lady, who was represented as Franks vile
l do net think any other name was used
THEY GOT HER IN,
| suppose while we were oack in one OF
these rooms. Having keys :hey could do
this very easily. We did not want any
woman in the house, sent away lodgel
lest week who asked his wife TO come here
and we told the men np stairs 50, but they
said Frank would be back, and they would
give up their room, the front one, to nj:
wife. They said she wosidn't stop longer
than Wednesday. On last Monday morn
ing Frank came back. David, the little
man, said he would go and sleep some.
where outside that night and let Frank
and Jack have the back room, while
| Franks wife remained In the front room
David slept somewhere else Monday night
and Frank and Jack went away-to Chi
cago, l suppose, Tuesday evening. Since
then the young lady has occupied the
front room, and David the hack rom
The door between The two has remained