The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-06


spected and promising young mechsnic in
the tonsoriat branch Of Industry. in this
city, commencing rs q shop bow he worked
his way up to the very head of his profes-
sion, and was at one time regarded as
among tn. leading experts in the business,
successfully running a shop of his own
which yielded him a handsome revenue,
At that time George was temperate, sober
jority OF his profession In that he was
REGULAR ATTENDANT
at church, q member of the Good T-mplars
and in all things an exemplary young
msn.
1t was under these conditions that he
met young and respectable lady of the
society in which he was then moving.
woosd and won her, and, with the best
wishes OF all, started out upon the voyage
of life, under the sunshine of prosperity
and with the most suspicious promises OF
a bright future, but it was not long until
he forgot to guide the helm OF his bark with
q stra ~ eye and careful hand. In an evil
hour be permitted himself to drift into the
vortex of the social whirlpool whose giddy
circuit is found In the dance house, the sa-
loon, the gambling hell. aud by degrees
his presence at the house of
God became less and less
frsquent,the coupling of his name with less
reputable associations more and more fire.
quent. Finally it was Whispered George
was
AN HABTTUAL DRUNKARD.
There came reports OF ms name IN connec-
ton with bar room brawls. Then whispers
of cruelty and ill-treatment Of his wife and
little one. Then the police docket bore
his name among the record of city crin-
insls. At last his misdeeds became so OBJ
noxious the newspapers made a
public exposure OF his brutality,
believing, though such publicity might
prove hard to his innocent, long and silent
suffering wife and child, 1t was a nec-s-
sity. Then Brutto for a swhile left the
city with his family, going south. But it
was not TO reform, only to seek new fields
where he might continue his evil deeds.
Finally exposed at other points he re-
turned to 5, dalia and after short career
deserted his wife. now broken in health
snd spirits,
MISERABLE WRECK,
of once happy womsnhood with fatal dis
ease, last DESTROYING the last vital spark. |
Silently she suffered, rather than expose |
the wretch who bad ruined her, suffered |
until death had set its seal, aided BY want |
and grief, upon her brow, then she was |
discovered by former frien.is and by |
her father. All that could be |
done was done for Der. but after |
months of weary suffering and untold mis-
cry, death kindly took her in his arms and |
bore her to his dreamless, painless realms, |
and her child was LIFT to be cared for by a |
married sister, who took her to her home
In the sunny south.
WHERE WAS BRUTTo?
sill this time do you ask roaming about |
the country, leading a guilty and. riotous
life. Several times be was in Sedalis but |
never visited his wife. The day she breath |
Ell her last he stood on the Garrison house |
platform, not q square from her deathbed, |
with gang of worthless companions, but
there was no sympathy In his hear. for the |
woman he bad murdered, the offspring he
had cast out hungry and naked to be cared
for by cold charity. When told that his |
wife vas dying no remorse filled his heart,
no thought OF asking forgiveness of the
pure spirit about to wing its flight beyond
This world of pain, whose last act through |
mortal lips was to breathe prayer for
him, who in spite OF all she yet loved.
LET HER GO TO HE'LL.
VAS the response be made to a request 10
come and see her before her spirit had gone
'to the beyond" Oh what contrast be-
tween an angel and a demon; who
csn look upon the picture and
believe there Is no heaven
Tor the ore, no hell for the other. $50 to
hell" indeed; would it be long, think you
reader, that the separation would last from
him who had come so near making this
earth hell to her? Alas we fear not.
But OF Brutto. Even as he stood there
,lorying in bis evil deeds as the devil is
to glory over the wreck, ruin and
havoc, he Is sble to CREATE, in the grand
universe OF the Omnipotence, created him
and gave him the power to destroy, the eye
If the Law was upon him. Not far away
I'ood one who hsd set himself to run him
Town and bring his
CRIMINAL CAREER
o a close. Outside of his villainies in this
,ity, Brutio had been guilty of crimes iu
rexss, in st. Louis, in North Missouri, in
Kansas and in Nebraska, had placed the
ninions of the law upon his track Having
placed himself in the role of leader to
,aog of petty despersdoes whose intentions
we're to commit widespread depreds,ions
wherever opportunity offered, the detec-
ives were also upon his track, and it was
IN even race and open question
IS to who should first draw
ant the rope he bad woven to bind him
n the strong embrsce of The law. This fell
o the lot of the Nebraska authorities, who
fler
HIS ARREST IN ST. LOUIS 9
y John belong, of Sedalia,
ecured the fret chance ut him, be being
aiken there on 4 requisition to ans yer to
he charge of burglarizing a trunk from i
he Paxton House in Omshs. Whatever
lse western peop'e may have to answer for
n3er the head of shortcomings, DISPOSE
ion to copdone crime is not to be laid at