The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-22
John Barlow is Arraigned
Before Justice Halstead
and Dismissed.
The Woman Proves to be One
Who Has Figured in
The Bazoo Before.
Where She Came From, Who
She IL, and What She Has
Been Doing.

with having Rade an attempt TO rsvisl
Rosa Butcher Friday evening, was ar
raigned before Recorder Rauck yesterda,
morning, on the charge of disturbing tn
peace, but as no case could be made agains
him, ne was dismissed.
Immediately afterward he was arreste,
on state warrant charging him with at.
tempting rape, and srraigned before Jus
tice Halstesd. No case could be mad
here either, apd he was released.
The testimony given by the woman wa
very conflicting, the story she told at th'
police station and the one she told at th,
Justices court being as far apart as the
NORTH AND SOUTH POLES,
and that which she did tell woulc
not tend to show that an attempt at rap.
had been made. She admitted that SD.
had gone one way to the house while Bar,
low had gone another, and that they me-
outside. Arriving inside, be made a prop
osition to her which she stoutly refused
telling him she was not that kind of a
woman, although she afterwsrd sat down
in his lap and allowed him 10 take i'm.
proper liberties with her.
On being asked what Barlow did when
she sat down in his lap, she reylIed that
he pulled her clothes up, and when asked
what she did then, she replied that
SHE JUST LAUGHED
about the matter, and told him that he
m Ist stop his foolipg.
Barlow said that she told him not to
make 30 much noise as she was afraid the
neighbors would hear them and give her
away. This she did not deny. She also
said that she had been put up 10 having
him arrested by other parties.
AS il is the affair is about q stand of,
and the woman is probably as bad, if not
worse than the man. The two probably
mad some misunderstanding about the way
things were 10 work, and the woman get
ting mad, left the house.
The reporters attention was also called
yesterday to the fact that her husband had
not deserted her, as she says, but that she
had left him on
THREE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.
The BAZoo readers will remember some
months ago a Montserrat coal miner
named Fred Butcher was arrested and con.
fined in the calaboose in this city on q
warrant sworn out by bis wife, charging
him with having assaulted her and at
tempting to kill her. When arrested a
22-calibre revolver was found In his
pocket and the next day he was fined $50,
not having which he was compelled 10
serve it out. He was confined for sixteen
days when he was released on account of
good behavior.
In conversation with BAzoo representa-.
live Fred said that he had not assaulted
his wife, neither did he threaten to kill
her. He had been employed in the coal
mines at Monserrat, and while he was at
work his wife had been in the habit of re-
ceiving
OTHER MEN AT HIS HOUSE.
He had taken her out of house of cor.
rection in Germany, where she had been
confined for lewd conduct, and married
her, the authorities letting him have her
with the understanding that he would i'm
leave the country. This he did,
and came toAmerics, believing that il he
once got her away from her old hsunts
and associates she would lead better life.
For time she was a most devoted wife
and did all in her power to make him
happy, but gradually, although Fred seen
il not, she began to 90 back to her old
evil ways. She would 20 out at all times
Of the night, and with strange men at that
and sometimes
SHE WOULD BE GONE DAYS.