The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-21
A BRACE OF BAD BIRDS.
Two Rascals Well Known in Soda
liza About to Meet Their just
Deserts.

Many people in Sedalia will remember
George Brutto, barber, who several years
ago conducted a bsrbsr shop on Usage
stree, and who was still later employed in
shop In East Sedalia. Brutto while liv-
ing in this city, was guilty OF many little
acts OF crOOSeduess, which those who are
best acquai isted with the facts, say were sun
cient TO send him TO the peniientiary. Ey-
ide9ce sufficient To CT Rvict him, however,
coufa not be obtained, and hence he was
permitted to go unpunished.
While living in this city
Brutto married Mis- McCslkiu>,
whom i is alleged died from a broken
heart and the effects of the cruel treat
ment received at the hands of her brutal
husband.
The scoundrel has for some time BEEN
lost sight OF, and COub less well nigh for
eottev, by hO,e who knew him in this city,
but from the following special to the Ran-
sas City Times, i, appears that he las
maintained hiS rep ltatien as a thief and
tirst-class villain, but that his career IS
about to be.cus short he havisg been ar
rested In st. Louis Saturday afternoon. A.
will be observed, his chances are excellent
Dor long term 10 the psnitentiery. Fol-
IL the special referred to:
St Lous, Oct. 11-This afternoon a
ms de eyed IL an was standing at the ele-
vator door at the sffice of the secret service
of the Missouri Pacific read al Market and
Fi&h street. He was NO o her than George
Brns o, alias Miller, one OF the smOothest
ard shrewdest sneak thieves in the. west.
The boltn-ss of the action itself led to his
arrest, as he bad trASted to much 10 his
n 10 OFT last h.
ruary, created sensation a. the Patton
house, Omaha, By se'iing trunk valued
at $40 and dIss ppeared as mys.eriously.
Shortly after he worked very successfully
at Council Bluffs, Ia. and still later he did :
some clever jobs at P9rsons, kas. He is
waa'ei at all these stations and many
other points, which will oe heard from as
soon 80 his capture is made public. When
did nc . appear at all Disconnected, but took
things as matter of co1Ise. Several people
want him badly, but he will be first sent
to Omiha, where the Kitchen brothers will
prosecute him. At pr, cent he is held by
papers fer his removal.
SENTENCED TO BE HUNG.
Several of the members of the present
police force and a number of the
older residents will remember one
Ed. Sneed, who, with his mother and
sisters, resided in this ci,y some fifteen
years ago. The family 3ore a very bad
regulations, the mother and her daughters
being inmates of a house of prostitution,
and the boy Ed desperate charae,er. In
1866 the house of all fame kept by Mrs.
Sneed was washed out by indignant citi-
Gems, and In a row which occurred at the
time MN wss killed. Ed. Sneed. who
was often before the cour: for petty crimes
was convicted of grand larceny In 1869 ut
the January term of the criminal court Of
this county aud sentenced 10 two years in
the peDitentisry. After serving out his
sentepcs, he sought new pastures, and was
almost forgotten BE- those who knew him
In Sedalia.
On the 9th Of July last in Kansas City,
Sne d killed man by the name of Orlando
Harrison LOOMS. The murder was a
most cold blooded affair, and The eerpetra-
tor was arrested and convicted of murder
in the first degree. On Saturday last he
was sentenced TO be hung on the l4th day
of next month. Thus is cut shora the
career Of ms who, 1t seems, was born
criminal
The Kansas City Times of Sunday has
The following in reference to the case:
The argument for q new trial in the case
of Ed. Sneed, who killed man named
Loomis, in Kansas City, few months
since, was heard before Special Judge j.
K. Shelley, in the criminal court at INDIE
pendeuce yesterday, and the motion was
overrued. Sueed was then sentenced TO be
hung on the 14th day OF November.
When arraigned to receive his sentence
and asked if he had anything to say, he
made an attempt to utter something, but
spoke in such a low tone that his meaning
could not b. caught He then relapsed
into silence and sat without moving
muscle until removed from the court room.
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