The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-08-18
Saved by His Wife.

A Times reporter has secured posses,
sion of the facts in singular case OF
what was evidently meant to be deliber.
ate murder and robbery, but which was
thwarted by the well-grounded caution
of the wife of the intended victim. 1t
happened more than a month ago in
Colchester, and only few days before
the murder of Harvey Chappell, for his
money, in Lebanon, a town adjoining
J. Colchester, but nothing about it appears
to have got into the newspapers. Mr..
William Rollo, who lives in rather Sc
cluded place on cross-road in Colches-
ter, had that week drawn five hundred
dollars from the bank, and had it with
him. He was alone, for his wife had
gone On weeks visit to her mother,
Mrs Lyman, in Hartford. These facts
were known, as such things will be
known in rural neighborhoods. On the
night in question Mrs. Rollo had re-
turned to Colchester, accompanied by
her mother, and her intention to return
at that time was not known in Colches-
ter. at least not outside of her house.
just before dawn Mrs. Lyman, who
CHANGED to awake, heard low and
rather dubious rapping on the side door
Waiting, she again heard it unmistaka-
.bly-and then she arose, and going to
her daughters bedroom, Weakened her,
telling her somebody was rapping.
Mrs Rollo got up, went to the door,
and asked: ''Who is there?" A num-
bling voice answered: THE horse is
down, and we want some help" As
other help on the main road must have
been nearer-provided the stranger had
been travelling that road-Mrs. X. S sus-
picions were excited, and she said:
''Who are you? What's your name?"
To this there was no Immediate re-
Spouse. At length the name of San
ford" or some thing like it was given.
By this time Mr.. Rollo had risen,
dressed himself and come to the door.
intending to 60 out and assist the
stranger. His wife, feeling a deep i'm
preston of danger, was reSolute against
his going without he took his revolver.
Mr.. Rollo at length acceded to her
fwish, took his loaded revolver, IN
locked the door and went out He saw
nobody, but went on toward the barn,
which was at some distance. Turning
q corner of the barn he came upon two
men who stood behind a big walnut
tree. One had big club.
: Rollo, who had been growing more
and more angry at every step, and who
had now reached decided pitch of in
dignation, exclaimed:
''Where is your horse?"
t'Oh," one of the men said, as both
stepped forward toward him, she's got
up and gone off,
Instantly drawing his pistol and COW
ering the leader, Mr.. Rollo, who was
now nerved to anything, promptly an
swered:
land you two follow him, quick, or
I'll kill you in your tracks,"
They saw he meant it, and that he
! chad the drop on them, too-and the
two villains turned and left in a hurry.
F.! After daylight Mr.. Rollo and a neigh
Dor followed their tracks in the snow.
They followed their tracks five miles to
a certain place, but no arrests appear
to have been made, and nothing done in
the matter. One of the would-be muir
derers had striking popularity in his
heel, as shown in his tracks. This one
had followed his companion from the
barn almost to the house door, when
the other raped, and had evidently
stood ready, if their intended victim had
been Gas they supposedly alone in the
house and had opened the door, to have
given the skull-crushing blow that was
20 have put him out of the way and
lett the villains free to rummage the |
house and secure TIE money.-Hargord
Times.
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