The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-25
AMID WEALTH AND FASHION
= Wretched Death Within q
Stones Throw of The West End
Hotel at Long Branch.

4 Long BraEch telegram to the
New York sun says Within three
hundred yards of the West End hotel,
on the avenue leading to the railroad
station, AMI within stones throw
Of the most fashionable portion Of
Long Branch, there stands a three
story frame, FRENCH,PROP. house, quite
deserted, uncared for, and going
10 ruin. The balconies and stoops as
we'll as the "indow panes and sashes
are broken. the grounds are uncui-
tivated. the sheds have tumb;ed down,
and rubbish and dirt are visible all
around. The twenty-five rooms are
bare or contain only the debris of
furniture Plaster has fallen from
the walls and ceilings, and all of the
rooms are thick with dirt. In sever.
ii of them are broken down bedsteads
on which are to 5e seen old and we'll
worn mattresses. also covered with
dust and dirt and alive with vermin.
In the middle room on the second
story there are three old chairs, a
tedstead. small, old-fashioned stand,
which holds several uDclean bottles
and glass, and mattress with bed
coverings. The floor is clean. Two
old women have made it so.
They are the only inmates Of the
building with the exception of two
little girls, aged respectively 3 and Z
years. The children were running
in and out of the room and up and
down stairs to-day, needless of the
fact that on the bed was laying the
remains of young girl not more than
20 years of age-rheir sister Sarah
kavanaugh.
On Sunday evening the police were
notified that girl was dying in the
Kavanaugh cottage. Two policemen
discovered Sarah Kavanaugh dying
from the effects of starvation and
liquor. She was found lying upon a
bed in the seco history front room,
almost devoid of bed clothing and W.
conscious. The room was s,rewn
with dirt and old clothes. The mat
ress WAS Worn out and the bed broken
down. In a rear room a man who
goes by the name of Dan and the
children were sleeping. Nobody he'd
seeu any of the inmates of the house
since last Wednesday, when it was
supposed that the girl was taken sick
and left to die uncared for. DIR. q.
W. Brown, the city physician, was
notified, but the girl being unconscious
he could not discover her complaint.
He administered such medicines as he
Thought most likely TO benefit her.
At noon to-day she died. Her re-
mians were removed to the middle
room, which two neighbors had l1ade
clean for the reception of the body.
When the police Went to the house
there wss no food to De found, and it
is thought the girl did not have any
thing to eat for several days. but that
she had whisky there is little doubt,
Tor several empty TASKS were found in
the room. The children were fed by
the neishbOrs. A post norton ex-
animation will be held tomorrow.
The Kavanaugh cottage was built
about ten wears ago by Charles Kay-
anaugh. 1t was licensed as a saloon
and hotel, and it soon be.
came the resort for low characters,
beth white and black. In 1879 Kav-
anaugh was arrested and sent to the
state prison for four years for having
been implicated with the Hvnes
brothers in case of incendiarism.
Before, however, his term had ex.
pired he was released.
Whenever Kavanaugh was arrested
his wife conducted the place. She
was then sent to Jail in the latter part
of May for violating the excise law.
She was fined 1925, but being unable
to pay it. she is now serving out the
fine. When the mother went to Jail
the daughters, Sarah, aged nearly
20, and Maggie, aged about Is, BE-
came her successors. The place grew
worse and worse. About two or three
weeks ago the police raided the house
and Maggie and two of her compan-
ions were sent to Jail for ninety days.
Sarah was absent. She afterward
returned, but she was not heard of by
the police until it was announced she
was dying.