The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

The Preliminary Hearing Had
Yesterday.
One OF the Most Revolving
Crimes on Record.
The Beastly brute Bound Over to
Criminal Court.

The preliminary hearing OF the War
ner rape case vas heard before Justice p.
B. K ffe yesterday and The trial consumed
the entire day, not only Is the crime the
most horrible ever TeSOraed in sedaiis, but
the evidence IVES OF the most revolving
and s'ckeling character ever produced and
stamps the whO'e 9utht as too degraded to
be worthy Of place in the human family.
The hrsi witness examined was Maggie
the victim of the all eyed outrsge, who
swOre III It her fother had outraged her at
intervals for the past FIVE years. Her
husband, Henry Kahler, was the next 20
testify, he stated that he had not desirsd to
marry lhe girl because of her immature
age and had proposed to the parents to
send her 10 school for three
years at his own ez pense, but because they
insist d on tharrirgs he had consented to
l., ard that on the S:h day of August he
" welded to her and that be lived 10
the house with h-r parents some three
weeks. AtOut
TWO WEEKS AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE
he came home and found his wife in tears
aud she told him that her father hid
made criminal assault upon Der and
had outraged her p-rsoa and Ihtt she then
for the Fl rst time confessed 10 him that her
father had be guilty of a ike
Ofease repeatedly before her marriage.
Not desiring 10 disgrsce his wife or hef
father, kahler SAID he told her TO knock
him down with any thing which might
come TO hAndshouid be again attempt such
a thing, and that he would either get her
ia her out of the city or find anoih-r home
in few days. He then called Mrs. Warner
up stairs and revealed to her the situation,
al the sane time telling her TO tell Warner
tina. unless he left the city he would have
him arressed as re had waIran, for him.
Warner did leave and was gone abcur
week. La the mean time Kahier removed
with his wife TO other quarters, and he
knew nothing further Of Warner until the
day tina. Warner made the assault upon
him and was arrested.
DIR. Bruner was introduced AMI testified
to lr. a,ing the children for disease.
THE DEFENSE
sought to deny the charges, and both
Warner and his wife swore they were false,
but their evidence was very cOu:rad Glory
In many ways. The second q lighter,
some ten years Of ag,, denied that her faith
er had ever outraged her, and swore that
previous to the M irIiage of her SIS er and
Kahler, that Kahler had taken her sister
aud herself on, buggy riding to Flat creek
AID had there taken improper lioer
ties with her sister. Much other
evidence of a far more disgusting
character was produced, and even the
most hardened bum and rake who helped
10 swell the vast concourse in attendance
al
involuntsrily TO his cheek as he
listened to il. The feeling amongst the
hearers was tense and strained, and a
general and involuntary sigh of relief was
heard when the Judge announced that he
should have TO
BIND THE DEFENDANT OVER
10 answer st the next term OF the criminal
court. Warner bond was pltced at $40O,
but as he was unable to I'LL it he was sent
10 Jail to await the meeting of the court.
Never IN the history of Missouri has so
a case before been placed upon
her dockeis. and should Warner be found
guilty there is little doubt that public
sentiment will not be content with less
thsn the EXTREMIST penalty of The law fer
MS offeuse which is death.
better than himself, while protesting TO be-
ieye in his ianocence, stated yesterday ou
The witness stand that il she knew h. was
guilty she would want him bu ned at the
&c Ike. ..
WARNER
is man of perhaps fifty years Of age, but
bis life has been noted for little but its
enormous crimes. acd IL was limited
that his attorneys
seriously thought of resortins
10 the insanity dodge as the only means Of
clearing him. Kahler is a man of perhaps
10 or As years OF age, Prussiaa by birth
and has, hike Warner, served term IN The
peniientiary, but he exhibits none Of the
brutality and coarsenrss of Warner, and
we're 1t not for the fact that he consumated
4 marriage with mere child, be would
nave the active sympathy of a very large
OF the community. As it is, how
ever, there is a general expression oil dis
yust at the Who'e on fit and feeling tend