The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-20
SEDUCTIVE SHORES.
The Story Of His Marriage to
Miss Craig. Wife Num-
Der Two.
His Bridal Tour TO New Orleans
and His Hurried Departure
From the Crescent City.

Last Sundays BAzoo gave the particu-
lars Of the polygamOus proceedings OF one
Chas. Shores, former clerk In Mackey's
shoe store, and professional masher.
There were many in this city who were
I 10th Ia believe the report concerning Shores,
as lac led great many here 10 believe he
was an
EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN,
: and model OF temperance. He attended
church regularly, and was a high priest in
/ the |, o. q. I lodge But notwithstanding
, all this he was masking" right and left,
| heaping every abuse upon the head OF a
devoted wife, would never refuse seat at a
poker table. and was as fond oil nip" of
old bourbon, as country editor. The fol
/ lowing history of Shores marriage in st
Louis, To a second wife. when his first was
living within a block of the second, is
from the pen Of ST. Louis correspondent !:
Some o. the gueerest and most deliberate
cases of bigamy ON record has just come to
light. Charles n. Shores, salesman in the
Famous dry goods store in this city, in
formed his wife ind, ceDber that he had
engaged to travel Tor another firm Tor
three weeks. He gave her $40, babe her
good-by and disappeared, and his prolong-
ed absence led TO a recent investigation,
which revealed an extraordinary story OF
villainous duplicity For months previous
10 his disappearance Shores had been regu-
larry visiting, a. her lover, a middle-aged
maiden lady. named Miss Mary S. Craig.
who kept a fashionable private school Tor
children, on the corner of Olive street and
Claiming avenue which was patrOnized by
leading people, from which she accumulat-
ed a very handsome revenue. which enabled
her to put by the snug little sum of $4,000.
She first met Shores at his store, was smit-
ten at sight, and. as he sedulously concealed
the fact of his being a married man, she
accepted his addresses and he visited her
regularly at her boarding house.
This bold game was successfully carried
on for montlis, ana Shores remark able
ability as a social protean artist is
evidenced by the fact that among the
friends of his who now tell what they know
of him, are some who express admiration
Of him as deeply religious young man
and q regular church goer aud doubt pos
itively OF his guilt, while others remember
him as a very gay boy, and a poker-player
of rare skill and great perrinacy.
1T appears now thai on December -,
Shores called in hack al , p. M. al Miss
Craigs boarding house in state of great
excitement, swOre rOun4ly because she WAS
not ready. and asked hef TO
QUIT NoNKEYING,
aud hurry, hurry mp, As the hack and
priest were both waiting for them. He
produced a marriage license for Charles II.
Shour and Mary ) Craige, and in few
minutes the smitten school ma am appear
ed i'm bridal robss. and with her laadiady
ss attendant accompanied him To- the resi-
dence near by OF a Catholic priest, who
soon maGe them one
when the pupiisl knot had been tied
the priest made the remark that they were
the first cUMpie be had ever married where
the groom dld not kiss the bride immedi-
atelv after. Shores took no notice OF this
statement, and the quartet boarded the
hack again. Miss Craig sat on the back
sea; and Shores took the front one. The
lady attendant asked him: Why don't
Won sit next TO your wife, oh, this is
good enough for me- he said You had
better follow the priests Instructions and
KIse THE BRIDE
persisted the lady. she never let me kiss
her said the groom, Oh, you know bet
Ter than that, Charlie said the bride in
z irly-girly sort of way, hut the man was
deal 10 all Establishments, and the bride re-
manned unsaluted.
The couple passed the night at the
boarding hcuse, and next day they started
from the city. Previous To her departure
Miss Craig had sent TO New Orleans for an
Miss Jany Waldo. To take
charge Of her school. Last Saturday Miss
Woldo received letter from her mother
i'm New Orleans. which stated that she had |
met there Miss Craig, who pretended not !
to know her; also. that Shores was there |
working for the Fairbanks Lard and Oil |
comp" nv This led TO an investigation |
Before leaving, Shores borrowed from his /
fellow clerks and acquaintances small sums
Df money, footing up over $500 altogether,
but this did not prevent the employees to-
lay from raising subscription in her be- |
half of $50 Ii il believed when the
couple hear OF their discovery
THEY WILL FLY To CUBA,
Is. that is the place where Shores said he
vas bound for when he went away"
As tine sequel to the story Cbss. of Shores
marriage TO Miss Mary Craig, and his de.
ertion Of his wife and child i'm st. Louis,
ne borrowing from tue Ne~oTiedus Ifuies-
DEMOCRAT will he interesting:
A special FROM st. Louis to the Times.
Democrat yesterday conisined full details
# Charles shores escapsde in that city,
lis marriage with Miss Mary Craig, snd
|ese. ton from his wife and child
The superstition of the Times Democrats
that the wife-deserter and
'igsmist. together with his victim, were in
lew Orleans, was but two true, as until
ast Sunday they had been passing in .
sshionsb bic boarding house on St Charles
rect VIVA, any newly married couple would
all their honeymoon. but which, from the
rides appearance. seemed to be that de-
ightfnl period Oh the wsne.
After their msrrisge. on the 10Th day OF
december last. Mr.. and Mrs. Sharer flor
uch was the name under which Shores
ourted Miss Craig, left st. Louis BY
al fho -