The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-03-04

Said to Have Wrecked q Young
Girls Life Who Resided i'm
This City.

The Kansas City Sun, a new sensa-
tional paper published at that place,
in its issue of Sunday has the follow
ing:
There arrived at the Union depot,
a couple Of mornings ago, a yonng
woman clad in mourning, from Sed T.
liza, Mo-, carrying two months Old
baby 10 her arms. She WAS met at
the depot by an attorney, who escort
e1 her to carriage and was driven
at once to the attorneys office. On
reaching the office the attorney called
up a member of the leading dry goods
firm in this city and told him to come
at once to his office. When this gen.
tleman arrived he was taken to pri-
vate room aud a consultation had,
which lasted for several moments.
Then the door opened and the attor-
ney entered the room where the
young woman was seated and told her
everything was arranged.
He handed her a draft for 1000
~. a., "---,onwealth National
bank of Boston, Mass. At the same
time he sat down beside her, and .ak-
ing legal document from his pocket,
read 1t carefully to her. He pushed
it over toward her and took from the
young woman the child and held it
while she signed it.
The legal paper was an affidavit ia
which the affidnt sw0re that the gen
ileman In the private room was not
the IA her of her child. The young
woman folded the draft, placed it in
her bosom, and was again driven ia
the direction of the unlon depo:.
Two years ago last month, this
member of the dry goods house, while |
on his way from st. Louis to this city, |
met handsome young girl un the |
train coming to this city to visit her
aunts people On East Fourteenth |
street. She said her name was Lilly |
Osborne and that she was a daughter
of grocer at Sedalia. The dry goods |
man was so much enamored of the
young girl that he made her promise
to write to him. Sue did so and after
a while the correspondence became
very frequent. The dry goods man
represented that he was single man
and very wealthy.
One day last spring on pretense of
visiting her aunt. the young girl Wis
tied the city and was met at the I'm
ion depot by the dry goods merchant
who took her in hack to the hotel
Royal. at the corner of WALNUT and
Fourteenth street. There, under the
promise of marriage, the dry goods
merchant wrecked the young Sedalia
glrl's life. She was just passed her
birthday.
Miss Osborne had not been In the
Hotel Royal day when she learned
The character of the place. She de-
handed to be taken elsewhere and J
The was then installed in the ST.
James hotel.
After she had returned home the
Try goods merchant wrote q letter to
Ter. telling her that thereafter their
,a'hs must diverge Is he was a mar
led man. Miss Osborne kept her
ecret until secrecy could no longer 7
e maintained, and then she told her
arents everything.
A little baby boy was born to her n
rom her intimate relations with the
ny goods merchant. After the birth
the child Mr.. Osborne instructed
ertain attorney in this city to insti. m
tie criminal proceedings against the p'
'erchant. This the attorney advised so
lem, was foolish as it would give the 6
after publicity, and even if the th
erchant was punished, it would in en-
wise help the ruined girl. A COM b
'omise was offered and last Tuesday an
orning $4,000 was paid by the mer- ds
laht to keep the matter out of the ho
urts. The merchant who wilfully III
lined the girl is a man greatly re- wi
ected in the community. For the tol
re OF his wife and children The diC
In will not mention his name. gu
The above story is evidently made ne
OF whole cloth, as there is no gro ho
IN Sedalia by the name of The
burn, who is old enough to have a civ
OWN daughter, and the salacious Ia wo
which contains the above is a dis pal
Ice to the city where it is published. ths