The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-01
WHO Is DAVIS {!
The Mystery That Surrounds the
WOunding of a Burglar
i'm Kansas City.
What Dave Suhler, of This City
Says in Regard to
His Order.
Chief Speers Telegraphs to Mar
shall jackson, Asking for
Information.

Ia C. j. Davis the Son of Thorn
as Davis, a Resident
of Sedalia?
Considerable interest was mani
tested in this city yesterday over the
the Associated Press telegram sent out
from Kansas City the previous even
ing, giving the particulars OF the
wGunding of a burglar presumed to
be C.. J. Davis, while in the act of
robbing the residence of Chris. Kohl
never, in company with second
crook. The telegram referred to
contained the following paragraph,
hence the interest here:
"On the person of the prisoner
was found an order for salary, drawn
at Sedalia by David Suhler, on NJ.
A. Dehoney. payable TO c. j. Davis"
As Suhler is well known in Soda
liza it was thought he might be able to
throw some light on the. identity Of
Davis, and with that object in view a
BAzoo reporter sought him yester-
day.
Il regret that my name
has been mixed up with this
affair in any manner, said
Mr.. Suhler, land L can very easily
explain my connection Herewith.
On Saturday, the 18th, man who
was stranger to me entered the
store where am employed, on West
Main street, and purchased a suit of
clothes. They did not fit exactly and
| had them altered and he called for
them ON Sunday afternoon, the 10Th
inst. During the conversation the
man, who gave his name as c. D.
Davis, remeaked that he was going
to Kansas City. told him that Nj.
A. Dehoney, of the DelmOnico hotel
in that city, owed me a balance OF
isl2 on salary, and | would sell the
account cheap. The proposition was
made in a joking way, but Davis was
ready to accept, provided there was no
money to be put up. If / would
give him an order for the money he
would try to collect it, he said, aud in
case he was successful in securing it,
would send me a portion thereof. |
, realized that the account was what
might be called a tough one, hence
r told him if he would set up the cigars
I | would give him an order on DehOney
/ for the So due. The cigars were
purchased and | gave Davis the
I order. dating it a day ahead, the
0 18th, so that it would be legal. He
departed SOON afterwards and have
= never seen or heard of him since
This is my entire connection with the
: affair"
q "You never saw Davis previous tt
I his purchasing the clothes?"
I mo, he was an entire stranger to
: me; but he is undoubtedly the
E wounded burglar, as he answers the
d description exactly IN every particu
lar"
+ Yesterday morning Marshal Jack
son received telegram from Chief o
Police Speers, of Kansas City, asking
if G.. J. Davis was a resident of Soda
liza and requesting all the information
i. possible about him. Mr. jackson
= also sought Mr.. Suhler, who repeated
his statement to the BAzoo, without
shedding any additional light on TIT
d subject. Mr.. Jackson made inquire
J. in various quarters, but not until the
+ noon hour did he learn anything tha
|, even resembled clue to solution o
le the mystery.
FL At that time it was ascer
. tanned that Thos. Davis, a laborer
St who resides on the road leading to tn
&c University, had entered an Ohi'
+ street book store and inquired anxi:us
d, ly for Kansas City paper containin!
d an account of the shooting of Z. }
ct Davis. The paper was produced an
no Mr.. Davis read the article referred &c
in but at the conclusion had very littl
he to say, merely remarking that h
guessed it was not his boy, althoug
n, he had stepson who was suppose
in in to be in Kansas City.
x Later in the afternoon Marsh'
i'll jackson, accompanied by a BAzo
as reporter, visited Mr.. Davis at his res
mt dence, when he made the followin
statement:
,k "When first learned Of the shoe
ing l thought it might be my stepsoI
IN John Riley Owens, but better know
as John Riley Davis. The wounde
burglar answers Johns descriptio
very well, but | cannot believe that
4. is him"
We "When did John leave Sedalia
me asked the marshal.
Is' "The latter part of April, | thin