The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-01-20
A BIG ARREST.
Sheriff Ellis II. Smith Comes TO
the Front Again as a Keen
Detective.
The Wife of One of The Lexing
ton Jail-breakers captured
i'm Sedalia.

esterday's BAZOO continued tn
account of four prisoners saving on
Of the Lafayette county Jail at Lex
ington and making their escape. Tn
name of one of the Jail. breakers i
Davis, and he is still at large.
Yesterdays BAZoo also contained 6
little personal notice of w. L. Sulli
van, postoffice inspector from Ksnsa,
City, being in town, on the lookout
for the fugltives from the Lexington
jail.
Yesterday afternoon, Sheriff Ellis
II. Smith located the alleged wife OF
Davis in East Sedalia, arrested her,
and locked her up in Jail. This after.
soon, in company with a United
States Deputy Marshal, he took the
woman to Kansas City and turned
her over to the proper authorities.
On December 26, 1890, Sheriff
Smith received the following COM
nuDication from the postmistress at
Green Ridge, Mo.
Sheriff Smith
SIR have in my possession a package
Of postage stamps and other articles, left
here by parties that are now under arrest
At Lexington for burglary. You will
please come and take possession of them, or
advise me what disposition to make of
them. Mrs. SUSAN DAVIS.
The sheriff was quite busy with
another matter at the time and could
not 60 to Green Ridge. About this
time he got into communication with
Postofice Inspector Sullivan, from
whom he got few valuable
pointers, ard upon which
ne set to work with his usual skill
and untiring energy. The Davis
woman, however, seemed to be keep
ing on the move all the time, visiting
both Lexington and Kansas City.
Last Sunday night came the jail
delivery at Lexington, and this made
the sheriffs sharp eyes even sharper
still. He got an mixing that the
Davis woman was in Sedalia and a;
snce set to work to locate her. This
he did, as stated, at house in East
Sedalia, where she bad been staying
a week, employed as a servant or help
in the family. She at first strenuous.
ly denied all knowledge of the
Lexington escape, and denied ever
having anything to do with the fellow
Davis, but finally, seeing that the
officer was not to be PLAYED
with, owned to being the
wife of the fugitive Davis, with
whom she is suspected of having been
in a recent burglary of
stamps and other articles at Higgins
vile, Mo.
In the possession of Nellie Davis,
we're found three fine gold watches,
one open-faced silver watch, two
pistols-one 45 caliber Colts revolver,
and one 80 caliber Smith & Wesssn
revolver, a lot of fine silverware,
two new coats and vests,
made in Kansas City, a lot of silk
handkerchiefs marked III. o. and III.
g., and also lot of stamps, not-with-
at Green Ridge she had left
$40 in postage stamps.
Mis-. Nellie Davis has also passed
as Mrs. Nellie and Miss Mary Davis.
She is a small woman, black eyes, I
lark hair and rather good looking. S
She is also decidedly smooth. She 9
protested bitterly against being locked )
up in the Jail, but she was not q
only put behind the bars, but was |
thoroughly searched from head to /
cot.
Sheriff Smith has shown remarkable +
detective acuteness and skill in this a
natter, and has probably made very o
important arrest. e
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