The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-09
CAUSES COMMENT
Does the BazOO's Expose
of the Dalby-RurrOWs
scandal.
A Deep and Wide Spread Inter.
est Taken i'm the UunfOr-
tunate Affair.
4 Few Of the Many Letters
Which the "BazOO is
Daily Receiving.

As might naturally he expected,
the thorough expose made by the
BAzoO last Sunday morning of the Dali
by-Burrows affair caused no little ex-
citementamong the residents of Soda
liza of high and low degree. Many we're
the comments made in the stores, on the
streets. In the social circle and at the
freside. Wherever two or thre- people
were gathered together, ma or female,
the Dalby-Burrows scandal was the
chief topic OF conversation. The
prominence of the parties, together
with the fact that whisperings Of the
ugly exposure, which many knew
must soon come, had several weeks
been indu ged in, made the case one
of more than ordinary interest.
That prurient curiosity and interest
in all matters bordering on the scan
dalous, which seems inherent in so
many of the human family, is still
stronger appealed 10 when the parties
belong to what is known in vulgar
parlance as "the upper crust"
1t was not to pand.r to a vitiated
and depraved taste that the BAzoo
published tire iull particulars of this
unfortunate scandal. which lone Pc
greet more deeply than The manager of
this paper. The matter had become
street gossip, and innocent parties
were being injured by false and un-
reliable statements. As a faithful and
truthful chronicler of all matters of
public interest, the BAzoo, as it al
ways does, sifled this case to the very
bottom and la d before its numerous
readers a complete, truthful and un-
vanished account of one of the ugliest
scandals which has ever agitated
Sedalis society. That the fear
le.sness and enterprise displayed
was fully appreciated by the
public, is demonstrated from the
fact that the mammoth Sum
day edition was exhausted early in
the day, and it was a hard matter to
obtain copy Of the Sunday BAzoo
for love or money. Orders came pour
ing in by mail, and although this pa
per has large circul alton, people
who never read a newspaper before
wanted to see copy of that issue. |,
As stated, the publication Of neces-
sity caused comment. That comment
was by 10 means confined to Sedalia,
but vas widespread. The BAzoo is
in receipt of several scores of letters
written on this subject and they are
daily coming in. In or,Ier to show
the interest taken in this matter a few
of the letters are below subjoined. mi
APoLoGETIC.
In the publication of the Dalby-
Burrows sensation in the BAzoo of
Sunday, February %, the reporter
alluded to Mrs. Hicks. 1t occurred
in this wise:
Whrn the reporter Intercepted
parties regarding the departure of
Mrs. Daily he asked -"Where has
she gomez"
The reply-"She has gone to Chi
cagn, and will be the guest of Mrs.
Hicks, giving number and street, |
whom she met at the Springs, and
who visited her MRS. Dalby) three
Or four days in Sedalia, last summer"
The BAzoo has no desire to
give any innocent person pain, and
The only excuse it has for mixing
Mrs. Hicks in this affair is in the en-
deavors of the reporter to locate Mrs.
Dalby and her paramour. The asser.
ton "h Oh flyer as applied to Mrs.
Hicks was uncalled for, unnecessary,
and stretch of imagination for which
here was no real ground.
The relatives of Mrs. Hicks-her
father and mother, who reside at
Mexico, are among the best people of
he state. Doting parents, who are
Christians and who have reared and |
educated their daughter with an eye
single and alone that she might adorn
he class of society in which her pa
'ents and herself had always moved,
I is to be regretted that the publics-
ion was made. While Mrs. Hicks
vas at the Springs, in Sedalia or else
where, there never was word uttered
II q thought given expression that
rould reflect on her in other than in
he most complimentary terms.
CHICAGO HEARD FROM
CHICAGO, March 3.
Ed;tor Basoo: II
Burrows, the man who figured in the
)alby affair, was seen promenading on La ,
'alle street. this city, last Wednesday, arm
n arm with a blonde haired lady, supposed
0 be the missing Sedalian. Your cores