The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-10-29
GONE SOUTH.
Sedalia Society Treated TO a
Sensation.

Ruuors were thick on the streets YES.
terday that o. +. Kelsey of the NJ K &
L. freight claim office and Mrs M. Z
English, handsome young married wo-
man who came here recently from Ch.ca-
60, hsd eloped. The facts are undispute'
that the couple were warm friends and
that they left the city Friday evening 90
the same train, the former tick ted to New
Oilesns, where claims to have an appoint
ment, and The latter TO Dallas, Texas.
A BAzoo reporter found a gentleman
who was we'll acquainted with her history
aud from him obtained the following in
teresting facts concerning Mrs. English.
She is the vile of Prof. English, formerly
OF Effingham. ILL.,, but now of Chicago.
He is past so, while she is - and married
MIN three years ago while she was
. union of.. December and May, anil, as l.,
Usual In such cases, she soon became dis
gusted with her lord and ran away from
him.
Her folks were wealthy and she had
c nsiGerable fortune in her own right, but
10 draw On her funds would disclose her
hiding place and she maintained herself by
working in millinery store While SO
employed she became acquainted with q
young lady employed as telegraph oper
ator in the I.Iioois Central headquarters
Ufices. This young lady decided To come
west and Mrs. English asked permission to
come with her and get employment in =
millinery store here. She had in the
meantime made q draw upon her funds,
and her husband came to Chicago to 6nd
htr. Both ladies came here and the tele-
graph operator was at once employed in
the telegraph Office here. Mrs. English
did not secure the employment she de-
sired, but she was we'll supplied with mon
ey and did not make much of an effort to
get place. She boarded at the
Copeland boarding house on Lamiue
street, dressed well and vas APP
parently gay and happy, innocent end
artiess. She made no EFFORT to concea the
Isct that she was married, and, in fact, all
Of her scquaintsnces know all about her
circumstances and that her m lin reason
Tor beiDg here was to get away from her
husband. He wrote To her often and beg
ged her TO come TO him, but she tfused.
Her conduct was all right and she soon
won large circle Of friends who deeply
sympsthized with her. There was not the
slightest suspicion that she had gone
astray. but she was young, and handsome
and began 10 receive attentions from
young men which, had she been single,
would have been all right, but being a
married woman they were of questionsb bic
taste. While the lady who came here
with her and other friends believed that
she was only thoughtless and not wrong
they feared scandal might be the result OF
a.
get her TO go back home either to her own
people or TO her husband
and she promised To do so.
A shorl time after Coming here she drew
on her private funds for nearly 100000
and lived literally, spending 500. in
seven weeks for clothes, diamonds, etc.
just eleven days ago, in company with
some laiIes and gentlemen, Kelsey called
on her and spent the evening. Ii was a
genuine case of mash" on both sides.
They became infatuated with each other
and since then they manifested th-ir sffec-
lions for each other In su h a o arke MAJ =
ner that il caused considerable talk and
scandal. Her lady friend determined that
she must 60 back home at once, but it sp-
pears she did not comply with their wishes.
1t Is reported by those who profess to
know the facts that Mrs. English gave
Kelsey the money to pay his debts and it
seems that he did pay some OF them but
they were too great for her large purse, and
he left some of them unpaid.
His baggage was stopped at
Nevada by one Of his creditors who
telegraphed ahead, and he paid the bill,
but the trunk Was sent back here instead of
being forwarded to him. Kelsey was one
of the most muscular of the athletics and
he was exceedingly proud of his shapely
limbs and well developed muscles.