The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-02-24
HUGGIN'S HUGGING.
How q Hapleee Lover Got Left by
His Sweetheart.

Yesterday morning Marshal Barnett re-
ceived a telegram from Warsaw request
ing him to arrest Q Miss Maggie Fields
Who was on the Marrow Gauge train COM
ing to Sedslis 10 company with one, w.
E. Higgins, for the purpose of elopement.
The telegram was signed by MIR. A. j.
Fields, the father of the girl. While Mr..
Barnett was preparing to obey the man.
date still another telegram Was handed him
dated from Cole Camp and signed by the
genial Conductor. Ben Blythe. 1t simply
said, "Be a, the Marrow Gauge depot when
the train arrives" Of course the marshal
obeyed the summons, and as the train drew
up about the 6rst persons he met were
THE RUNAWAY
Higgins is sandy compleIioped, seedy
looking individual not far from thirty
years OF age who halls from the neighbor-
rood of Lebanon, Tennessee, TO which
point he claims to be returning. He de-
MED, however, that he vas clipping with
the girl, and TO prove il offered TO marry
her, but this she positively declined to do,
say ing she hsd no use for him and that
she had not come with him with any such
intentions but simply because they both
happened 10 be coming 10 Sedslis at the
same time and we're acquainted with each
otter. AS there was no request to hold Hug
gins he was permitted TO 60 about his
business and Miss Maggie Fields
wss escorted TO the Rubey hotel, where she
wss kept under guard Till The return train
| left Tor Warsaw, when she was placed
abo srd aud accompanied by the ci,v mar
shall as lar rs the city Limits, where he dis
embarked, leaving her In chsrge of Con-
ducror Blythe to be tsken back home.
Passengers Who came up On ihe trsio say
| the
COUPLE ACTED VERY LOVINGLY
Oh the journey, but j. may have
been because il Was known they
we're TO BE- intercep pied. Higgins also put
up al the Rubey house and se-med 10 lake
the IN atteE very easy. He claims 10 be on
his way home 10 look after his prlperty.
MISS MAGGIE
was visited at the hotel by reporter. She
IS . very lair specimen of a mountain
pink" and seemed not at ell abSshed or
down hearted over the Episode. She is Of
medium atuIe, hand ome form, dark eyes
ard dark hair, worn with the conventional
bang, vivsvious. but somewhat iroward.
She said she bad been In Warsaw about
three month, having come from near Lebs-
non, Tennessee, where she lived with her
uncle. When she came, she says, she was
| accompanied by Hug2ius, whom she has
known from childhOod. Since their arrival
| Higgins has been living at her fathers keep
ing books for him in his livery stable.
As TO running away, she bitterly denies
all such intention, and s,atsd she hid In
formed her mother Sunday of her desire to
come TO Sedalis To make some purchases
/ and her mother he'd CONSENTED 10 IL, and
| knew of her intention. As 10 Mr.. Hug
! gins, she simply came with him as = friend,
ard expected TO part with HIM in S-dalia.
"May | ask how old you sre?" inquired
the scribe.
Eyes, sir, everybody else has asked me
that and guess you have as much right as
they have. | am nineteen years old"
"Then you certainly have the right TO
marry Mr.. Higgins, or any one else you
may see fit,
"Of course have. bat don't wan; Mr..
! Higgins or any one else.
lam NOT IN THE MARRYING BUSINESS.
When do marry, though, you can bet |
will know what / am doing"
Miss Field stated her father had moved
III Warsaw from Cross Timbers, HIckors
county, about the time she came home, and
that she had stree been living at home.
She further said she did not blame the off,
GERS for arresiing her, but she did feel hur:
to think her people nave resorted to such a
measure.
When asked if she intended to carry out
her object in coming TO Sedalis, she said
| No." she " as not going TO run over Soda
liza with policeman, but would keep
her money in Ter pocket
book. Although the case is a
queer one, but the probabilities are that
her parents, who are well-to-do and re 'Ft CT
able citizens, had information sufficient to
warrant them in their prompt action, and
it is to be hoped that Mr.. higgins, who,
according TO Miss Fields statement, has
been more of protge than guest or en-
ploye at the home OF her parents the past
three months, will turn over Il new leaf in
his questionable mode of wooing, and if he
really had evil designs That he may meet
with the swift reiribution such conduct de-
msnds.
La the absence of any positive proof,
however, the parties are given the benefit