The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-09
SHE is INNOCENT.
So Said A. q. White, Yesterday,
in Speaking Of HIS
Wife.

Last Thursdays BAzoo devoted consider.
afle space to the alleged improper conduct
Of Mrs. A. g. White, wife of an East Soda.
liza stOnemasOn, and since that time the
affair has created no little talk in that por-
rion Of the city.
Mrs. White, who is quite attractive, is a
member of the East Sedalia Baptis
church, and when the BAZOO's article was
read by the P'>t~- and his congregation,
their surprise w. indeed great, and there
were many who r. in favor OF An imme-
diate investigat
1t must be ~ in j;stice to Mrs White,
that prior TO u: uppl.asantness, she has
always borne ''s;-'',: reputation, and there
we're large n...nfer of persons who de-
clined to believe her guilty.
With the int u;ion OF ascer,aining the
truth of all charges made by the
BAZoO's informant. friend OF Mr.. and
Mrs White called upon them and they pre-
pared the following letter, which was hand
ed in at this office yesterday with the re-
guest that il be published
Mr.. White, who delivered the letter in
persop, said he wss satisi. d bis wife had
been guilty of no wrong. When interro-
gated as to how the charges originated he
said one Of his neighbors had manufacture
ed the story entire. A few minutes quiz.
zing. however, revealed the fact that there
had been trouble between himself and his
wife, all of which was the result of intoxi-
eating liquor on his part To this one
cause Mr.. White may attribute all his
trouble. The following is the statement
prepared by them:
We the undersigned feel greatly aggriev-
ed at, and injured by story published in
last Thursdays BAZOo, concerning Us as
man and wife. Almost every statement is
a perversiOn of facts. We have been mar.
ried seven years and have lived together in
peace. We are both plain people and work
hard and try to pay our debts The whole
Bennett story is false except he is our
cousin. Every statement and inference of
improper conduct between Mrs. White and
Bennett is untrue. The Letters of Bennett
to us have been read BY both of us and We
have declared there was no intimation in
any OF them of undue attachment to Mrs.
VINO: anything improper for friend to
write. The statement with all its infer
ence that Bennett offered to send her $50
on which to pay her fare to So. Louis,
when he would meet her at the s.. James
hotel, is vile Islander on both Mrs. w.
and Bennett. The $40 was sent at the in
stance of Mrs. Whites father that she
might make visit to her sister at Gad's
Hill, Mo. The visit was made, not clam
destively as intimated, but known to both of
US and by mutual consent. The return was at
the termination of the visit, and with the
full knowledge and consent of both Of us.
The whole statement in the BAzoO is such
perversion Of facts that both Of US feel
deeply injured, and hence we join in this
true statement and We ask the editor of the
BAzoo to give it place snd make such
other statement as will set both of us in a
proper light before those who have no
other means of knowing the fac's. We are
sorry to believe the whole story was origi-
mated by a neighbor who has never had
cause from US for inspiring such damaging
libel. A. q. WHITE.
Mrs S. A. WHITE,