The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-04-21
RUFUS P. WINDSOR,
e Notorious Character Again
in Limbo.
He is Arrested at Slater Charged
With Stealing Two Shirts.

IltlZens OF S6dalla are familiar with [
doines of Rufus z. Windsor, snd of hi
doirgs in This city. Last fell he was il
the employ If ID. /. H, lcc NIB and while
there defaulIe ed TO an uncertsiu smouDr
the probability being that Mr. Holcoml
never has teen able to find out the exact
amount, as he would collect money and
not port it. On the 20 of December
last he went 10 the residence of David
Emerich to Put up lamp for Mr.. Holoomb
WHILE THERE HE STOLE Sl.50
which Mrs. E. left lying on the table. Sub
sequeptly he admitted the theft and
restored the Sl.50.
He was under bond charged with embez-
Element and the present grand jury has
refused to find a true bill against Him
because Mr.. Holcomb would not prosecute.
tlSince early in 1885 Rufus has been cir
culatipg all over the country. He turned
up at the City hotel in Slater, Mo, on the
night of April 2. He told the proprietor
that he had secured job of work AID was
going out on an cary freight train, and
wanted to be awakened. Runs went to
bed. The lasd!ord did not awaken him
when told TO, and cons quently he was left.
When he went to Rufus r, ON that morn.
ing he found him rurirg on another
mans shirt. He was ARE sted on a war
rant sworn out by the landlord, and his
case taken before Judge r. l.. Harvey, of
Slater, A. F. Rector appearing for tie
state, and Rufus pleading his own case.
Rufus sited a continuance to get some
witnes es from Sedalia. This wfs or ned
and the case Continued until Monday, the
9Th, ard the hsro of this spent Sa urday
and Sunday in the Marshall Jail
Rufus is no SLOUGH of lawyer himself.
When the case was called Monday there
being no witnesses from Sedalia pres
ent he asked for a change of
venue on account of the prejudice that ex-
listed against him. The case Was sent to
Judge j. @. Miller, cf Marshall, who hsd
an examination on April z, Prosecuting
Attorney Cooney appearing for the slate
and F. P. ST bree for Rufus.
HE TALKED HIMSELF INTO JAIL
despite the efforts of his abe and crafty
attorney, who was not allowed 10 manage
the case because Rufus thought be was too
smart and knew more than his lawyer.
The two shirts were taken, it is charged, |
from the trunk of James Matthews, and |
now Rufus p. Windsor lapguishes in the
county Jail at Marshall, where BAzoo |
representative interviewed him yeste,day
While in custody at Slater be told the
people that he was nephew OF Senator
Vest and that he had $1,000 libel suit
against the BAzoo, which the manager of
this naper had offered him $500 to com.
promise.
The BAzoo reporter, in the Jail yester-
day, in'errogated Windsor regarding
the matter of being a nephew of
Mr.. Vest, snd of the 81 800 compro-
mise. He denied that he made either
statement or that he took the shirts, so all
must conclude that the fellow
Is VERY MUCH ABUSED
and being sadly mistreated by the Saline
county authorities.
Rufus P. Windsor before be left here
last winter had commenced to write his
pane r. p. V. Windsor. What prompted
this..no one here is advised, but since he has
claimed relationship of Senator Vest, he
DO doubt desired TO have it understood that
The V. stands for Vest in his name.
Rufus P. Windsor is about twenty yesrs
Did. He is smart and capable of making
B good man if he was only half way honest.
He has parents, brothers and sisters in this
county who are hen. s., upright snd re
'pected people who certainly have the
of all in their Trouble with the
boy.