The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-11-19
A STARTLING FIND.
A Skeleton Addressed 10 a Soda
liza Woman Found i'm the st.
Louis POstOffice.

The following item appeared in the
st. Louis Chronicle yesterday:
"My God! It's a skeleton!" ex-
claimed Superintendent Thomas P.
Culkin, of the registry department at
the pOstoffice. to-day.
The exclamation was caused by the
break ing of package received at the
department and the contents falling
out on the floor.
The package consisted of cigar
box, in which was diminutive skele-
ton. The box was addressed to Mrs.
Emma Mason, Sedalia, Mo-. and was
postu arked Evansville. Ind.
1t has been dropped by clerk and
broken. The contents were carefully
packed in cotton. Mr.. Culkin had the
box and contents removed to the base
ment, where he and Chronicle re-
porter examined them carefully.
The little frame was about the size
Of that of an infant at the time of it's
advent into this busy world of ours.
As the last bit of cotton was removed,
an open note was observed at the bot
tom Of the box. The note, which was
in a lady's hand, read as follows:
My DEAR SISTER EMMA Il fear We
are suspected. / have seen strange men
prowit1g around the grounds. have not
slept for a week, but have sat at the win
dow overlooking the gar ien-you know.
could stand it no longer, so last night
at IL O'Clock l went out and dug sit" ND,
AMI hereby send it to YOU. Oh / wish we
had not done it. / hsve suffered tortures.
The only thing that consoles me is when 1
think OF how we bafiled "her"
Had she not tainted me so, 1 don't think
C 'uld have had the courage
The poor little innocent thing. That
smile is ever before my eyes as you placed
the pillow over his little head.
IL L could undo our act | would reliu-
quish thousand fortunes. He would be
i've years old now. / imagine ne is always
near. l believe | AIN going crazy. He il
standing by my side as / write. 1 can feel
his little hand on my lap as / did that
night, and-Oh God 1ha. smile
And the letter stopped, a scattered blot
indicating that the pen had fallen from
the band OF the writer.
Further down the page the letter con-
tinued, the culver in the characters indi-
eating, however. great agitation of the
WI itsr.
Dear Emma Burn this letter as soon
as you receive it. II is very imprudent in
ne to write as am doing, but / must
ease my mind somehow or kill myself.
Fstheris gettiag more feeble every day.
Whenhe is gone | shall have my revenge.
swore it last night over our mothers
grave Bury the box Just as you receive
it. / have fixed il carefully. Don't des-
troy it for Gods SAKE. / could not stand it.
If thought that anything was likely to
happen to it would not part with il il it
cost me my life. Though cruel to him in
life, We can love cur murdered brother In
death.
Your remorseful sister, E.
Superintendent Culkin has turned
the box and the letter over to the
police, who will find out whether a
murder has been committed or if
somebody mas been playing joke Oh
the postofice people,
A BAzoo reporter made a diligent
search for the Mrs. Emma Mason but failed
10 fnd any person bearing that name In
he city, there are a dozen familys by the
name of Mason, but so far as could be
learned none of them bear the name
Emma