The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-30
GUFFEY GOBBLED.
He is Arrested and jailed on Sew
ersl Charges OF Crookedness.

An ex-rfllroad mar, giving bis name as
James Guttey, was run In Officer Jim Cos
sage, yesterday afternoon, tor demanding a
little country boy out of u numbtr of opos-
sum hides. The little boy had brought
these hidIS 10 the city for the purpose of
selling them. He was met on the street BY
GuHey, who took them away from him aud
sold the m TO Laupheimer Bros. for 81 40,
telling them that he (Gafey) had purchased
he hides In MontIose. He had no sooner
left the store than The little boy put IN an
al pearance and cl.imed the hides. John
WeIrich, clerk in the employ OF the firm,
was sent out to overhaul Gaffey. He was
found IN a saloon ard taken back to the
sore, where he confessed that h. lad stolen
the hides from The boy. lie then turned
over part of the money which he
had received for the hides ard
skipped out. The matter was reported 20
Officer Gossage, who traced Guffey to Hast
Sedalia aud arrested HIM. He was brought
down towi and taken before Justice Hal
stead, where ne entered a plea of guilty,
and was fined SO and costs
While the trial was In progress c. +.
Spray, an Ia t Sedalia grocery merchant,
entered the court room and Identified the
prisoner rs man who bad % ained sore
goods from his clerk early IN the day under
false prstsnses. Guffsy entered Sprays
store while ii vas IN charge of a small bOy,
and told him that his name was Davidson,
and that he was regular customer at the
| store. On this representation he obtained
TWO and Ore half 1ozen eggs ard q few
other small articles. The eggs we've sold
10 an East Sedalia saloon keeper, Gufey
having told the dispenser of eggnog that
the eggs had been bought by him 'down
the road" and that he had several more
dozen in his cahoose which
he would Sill for 20 cents per dozen.
On leaving this Prescott ng Attorney
Heard filed another case sg+inst the pris-
oner for obtaining goods under false pre-
fences. He did not deny the charge say.
ing, that he had teen intox Gated in the
morning and did not know what he had
done. After hearing the evidence the jus.
tice fined him 81 90 and COSTS. While sit
ting in the court room, pending his SEN
fence, Officer GCssage notices that the young
man had on a new pair of line boots.
Knowing that Guffey had been out of
money for some time, the officer surmiseG
that athe boots had been stolen or OBJ
tanned in some crooked manner.
He accordingly took description
of the boots and paid
visit to the various shoe stores. AT
Msckey's the officer learned that pair of
boots suiting the description of those worn
by Guffey had been sold by a clerk to a
man who represented himself to be a
brother Of Billy Willis, the we'll known
engineer. The clerk was taken to the
court room and identified the boots and
the prisoner as the man who had obtained
them from him.
A warrant was sworn out and Gufey
will be tried on the charge this morning.
Later In the evening it was learned that
Guffey had obtained a gun from a second
hand store, and a belt and lot of car
ridges from VIM. McGannon, the East
Sedalia gunsmith under false pretenses.
He will be prose cuted on both of these
charges to-day.
Gufey formerly resided at Montrcse.
Henry county, but has been loafng around
this city for some time. He has a wife
and child at Montrose.