The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-08
FLEEING FOR FREEDOM.
Two High-Spirited Girls En-
deayer to Escape the Yoke
of Domestic Tyranny.
A Runaway Couple From Kansas
City Followed by an Uncle
and Lover.

Alu AOtcEs
On the train from the west We'd.
nesday night there arrived two
young girls of rather attractive ap
pearance and of modest demeanor,
who Immediately upon alighting from
the train entered a hack and request
ed the driver to take them to 1412
East Fourth street. Their wishes
were complied with, and although
the driver says that the girls deported
themselves in a very ladylike manner,
he was convinced from general ap'
pearances that they were n runaway
couple.
On the midnight train from the
west, Thursday night, there arrived an
old gentleman and young man,
who at once made knewn to
an officer at the depot that they were
in search of a couple of runaway girls
from Kansas City. The officer ap,
pealed to Immediately located the
girls from the description given, and
the parties entering a hack were driv-
en- to 1412 East Third street. Arriv.
ing there, it was ascertained that the
girls had stopped there the night pre-
vious, but on the morning following
one of them had gone to work at VIII
sons bakery, on East Fourth street,
and the other at the boarding house of
Mrs. Hart, on East Third street. The
pursuers of the truants, after receiving
this information, re-entered their car
riage and were driven to the Hotel
Kaiser, where they passed the night.
Yesterday morning, securing the
services of the same hack driver, they
proceeded to Wilson's bakery, where
they found one of the truants, who
stated that her companion had
engaged service at Mrs. Harris,
the morning after their arrival,
but had subsequently accepted situa-
ton at the Calhoun house, on East
Fifth street. Proceeding thither, the
girl was found at work, but made no
demur to accompanying the parties
who had called for her. Returning
to the bakery on Fourth street, the
other runaway was taken in and the
party was driven down town.
The names of the runaway girls are
by the BAzoo, for fear
that a mention of them might possibly
cloud the reputation of the young
ladies', who, so far as can be learned,
themselves with the utmost
propriety during their brief stay in
The city.
Investigation developed the infor-
nation that the young man accompany
ng the uncle is the affianced
IF one of the runaway girls; that
his attentions were not re-
,eived at all kindly by the
mother Of his sweetheart. who had
made threat, which the latter over
heard, that if she had anything more
% do with that young man she would
1--WE her a severe whipping, and that
o escape this indignity the young
ady left home, persuading an init.
nate friend to accompany her.
After the young ladies had been
afely corralled, the young lover, who
S a smooth-faced kid, with "smart
Aleck" written in every lineament of
lis fresh countenance, saw fit to as
ume the role of a detective to those
Eho were conversant with some of the |
acts in the case. To a BAzoo re-
'orter, who approached him respect
ully for some information about the
natter, he assumed an exceedingly |
air and declared that he
ad kept the matter out of the news
apers thus far, and intended to do so.
"You will be dandy if you keep
out of the BAzoo," remarked the
eporter, who was at the time in pos
ession of the names of the girls.
81 am a newspaper man myself"
aid the stunted specimen of would
e detectives and journalists from
lansas City, and ifyou give these girls
roasting / viii certainly get back at
on. / am one of the staff of Kings
.ansas City illustrated Life"
"You don't say so" calculated the
AGO commissioner. 81 am very
Apply to meet you and what might
e your name, please ?"
81 decline to be interviewed, and
so to give my name"
"Oh, you do F.; excuse me, but it |
ALTERS little; we Will manage to find
IT."
"An right, 60 ahead and find out,
ut yon will get no information from
e."
Thanking the complacent "young !
for his courtesy, the re-
,rter left him, feeling that in all of
8 experience, during which he has