The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-29
How He Worked His Racket i'm
No Less Than Three Board.
ing Houses.
As He Had a Comparatively New
Scheme, He Was Very
Successful.
His Preliminary Hearing Being
Continued, He Was Sent
to the CaIabOOse,
When He Pried Open His Cell and
Took French Leave With
out Saying Goodbye.

Payne and Gossage, yesterday morn
ing. about 5 o'clock, at Robert Bon
ner's restaurant, on West Main street,
where he had put up for the night,
and later he was taken before Re-
corder Levens, charged with larceny
in dwelling.
Day before yesterday morning,
about 6 o'clock, a stranger went to
the Calhoun house and applied for
lodging, stating to Frank Calhoun,
the proprietor, that
HE WAS AN ENGINEER
and had worked In the Missouri Pa
cific yards in 1877 and was going to
endeavor TO secure his old position
again.
Mr.. Calhoun showed him to a room
occupied by j. B. Cameron, who had
gone to his work in the K. & T. shops.
After remaining in the room a short
time the stranger returned to the Of
flee, saying he was not as sleepy as he
thought he was that be had left b is
satchel In the room and would return
after it shortly.
Nothing more was seen of him there
until IL o'clock, when he returned
and securtd his valise. He then de.
parted again and nothing was sus-
pected until Mr.. Cameron returned
from work at 6 o'clock p. m, when
he discovered that his
TRUNK HAD BEEN OPENED
and s4.65 taken out. Suspicion was
st once placed upon the stranger.
The case, with a description of the
thief, was given to the police, and af.
ter making a diligent search they
were rewarded by finding him, as
above stated.
When arranged before Justice Lev
ems, the prisoner gave his name as Ed
ward Corps, and his home as Harlem,
Mo-, opposite Kansas City. Further
investigation of the case brought to |
light that he had applied to r. IT,
Rose, who keeps boarding house on
East Third street, for lodging about s |
a. m. Friday, stating that he was
A NIGHT OPERATOR
at the Western Union telegraph office. |
He had been up all night, he said, and |
was very tired. Mr.. Rose took him
to a room occupied by Frank B. |
Glimpse and Al. Dixon. Mr.. Glimpse
had his pants hanging on the corner
of the bed, which garment Corps
went through, taking s1.05 there
from. He then came down stairs
and said he was going after his trunk |
and would return shortly. During
the conversation he displayed a large
amount of money, which he explain.
ed by saying that he had just been
paid off.
From there he went to the board.
ing house kept by L. Walkup, on
Hancock street, near Fifth, and play
ed the same game. Here he was
shown to a r. ON occupied by James
Brazier, from whose trunk
CORPS TOOK FORTY DOLLARS IN CASH
a pair of sleeve buttons and a watch
chain, which were identified by Mr..
Brszier in court.
In addition to the above articles, a
gold watch and chain and four silk
handkerchiefs were found upon the
prisoners person, all of which have
been identified save the
watch and chain and handkerchiefs,
which are now in the possession of
Marshal jackson.
At IL o'clock his case was called.
He pleaded not guilty and asked that
he be granted continuance until
SO as to give him time to
secure lawyer. In accordance with
the request, Justice Levens laid the
case over until II o'clock Monday
morning.
BACK To THE 'BoosE.
Corps was then taken back to the
calaboose to remain until he could be
committed to Jail, this being necessary
from the fact that Justice Levens had
not a blank commitment, which
document is always required when
sending aprisoner to Jail. 1t was then
twenty minutes of twelve o'clock and
all the officers had left the calaboose.
At 1890 Marshal Jackson
returned to the calaboose to find that
Corps had torn from the floor of his
cell scantling with which he pried
open the cell door, using an arm of a
chair which was in the cell as wedge
to hold the door open wberehe wanted
it. He thus made q hole at the bot
tom of the door, allowing him to es-
cape. |,
Once out he was of, taking with
him a hat belonging to-