The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-22
A LOVING SISTER.
She Loved Her Just Long
Enough to Get Away
With 81, $40.
John White and Wife Lodged in
Jail on the Charge of
Forgery.

Eli Sheerer appeared before United States
Commissioner Adam c. Scott, yesterday
and filed information charging John White
and his wife, Mary E. White, with having
obtaiRed, by false vouchers, l,540 pen
sion due Harriet A. West from the United
States. Both parties were arrested and
placed In the county Jail.
A BAZoo representative interviewed Mrs.
Sheerer, nee Mrs. West, at her residence
east of the cemetery, last night and elisited
the following facts:
Her husband
HAD BEEN REGULAR
in company K, End Illinois cavalry and
while In active service had contracted a
disease from the effects of which he died.
His death occurred at Clinton, Ind, the
exact date of which she did not remember.
she applied for pension through law
yer of Evansville, Ind, named WIN. Ire
Wis. AS she could hear nothing from it
she
GAVE UP ALL HOPE
and moved to Mcpherson county, Kansas.
Here her sister, Mrs. White, took up the
case, and after working on it for awhile,
wrote to Mrs. West and asked her what
she would be
WILLING TO GIVE
to get the pension. She replied that she
would give $500. After awhile Mrs. West
received another letter from her sister,
asking her to send her marriage certificate
if she was again married, This she did,
but heard nothing more of the matter.
After she and her present husband, Eli
Sheerer, moved to this city, White and
his wife came and took up their residence
in a part of the Sheerer domicile.
A short time ago Mrs. Sheerer told her
sister that as the pension
HAD NEVER BEEN REFUSED
she believed she would write and see what
had become of it, and try and ,,rocure it.
II was then that her loving (?) sister in
formed her that she had secured the PEN
sion while at Mcpherson county, Kansas,
and that as she had done the work by
herself she was wiling to
ABIDE BY THE RESULT.
However, she said that she was willing
to divide up the spoils, but all she had
would not cover the amount which she
had got away with. The Whites owned a
number of horses and mortgage on three
of them was given to Sheerer to insure
HIM AGAINST ANY LOSS.
After they had done this Sheerer concluded
not to prosecute them.
Sunday night Mr.. Sheerer tried to per-
suade Mr.. and Mrs. White to 60 before
some justice and make over their goods to
him, but they utterly refused and said they
would law the whole amount away first,
and that they proposed to let the
LAW TAKE IT'S COURSE.
To this Sheere agreed and yesterday
swore out the information against them
with the result above named.
The charge is a great deal more seri-
Gus than either Mr.. or Mrs.
White suppose. 1t is not the city or state
that now has the case against them, but is
old Uncle Sans toes upon which they have
stepped and he will doubtless
PUT THEM THROUGH
as they richly deserve to be.
Mrs. Sheerer of course, can claim her PEN
sion over again, and this time will see to it
that no evil-minded sister steps in and
gobbles up the Doodle.
The boy who was fined before Justice
Halstead yesterday morning was Whites
own son, and it does seem as though
JUST RETRIBUTION
was about to overtake the whole family at
once.
Constable Carnes and Deputy Finch
made the arrest. They found the pair on
the streets in wagon and Mr.. Finch got
into the wagon with them. The horses
were placed in Thompson Bros livery
stable, where they are now. The guilty
pair will probably have hearing to-day.