The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-24
BUNGLING BOWRON.
He Gets into Limbo by Very
Questionable Practices.
A Woman Waits on the Mayor at
Midnight for Relief from
BUWrOn.
HIS RECORD.

J. III. Bowron a lawyer has not re-
sided long in Sedalia. Where he
came from no one knows, only in
earlier life he hailed from Rouse
Point, a small town on lake Cham
plain, where in the summer time the
frog crop is harvested and in the win.
ter time the people get a living skin
ming hemlock trees and selling the
bark to the nearest tannery.
Bowron probably was ''log skin
ner" when in youth and he now
practices skinDing people just TO keep
his hand in.
HIS VICTIMS.
In Sedalia have been numerous and
his methods quite questionable. In. re
has resided at SOC East Third street,
T. NJ. Connell and his wife and six
children. Cornell is poor and his
family dependent upon his labor for a
living. He has a son about sixteen
years old, who fell into the clutches of
Bowron. The shyster lawyer sent him
to Cassidy's saloon to buy whisky,
probably to make a case. The bow
secured the whisky and then a suit
materialized in court for damages.
The case was settled, Bowron sharing
in the money paid. Another case was
brought and compromised all at the
instigation of BOwrOn, as is alleged by
Mrs. Cornell, the mother of the boy.
is IT EMBEzzLEMENT T?
Mrs. COnnell came to the BAzoo
Office this morning and made the fol-
lowing statement:
81 had a son in st. Louis and i
wanted him to come home. / went
to Bowron and asked him to send to
St. Louis for my boy who is sixteen
years old. A few days after | called
at his office to see if he had heard
from my boy. He said yes, he hsd
heard from the boy. He was in St.
Louis and would come ss soon as he
received the money | then paid him
S. 20 for the boys fare and 50 for his
work. He read letter to me pur-
porting to be to him from my boy.
The boy did come home and he said
he had not heard from Bowron. |
then went to BoSron and asked the
return of the money. He said he
would have it brought back. Inever
could get him to return the So 20.
He got other money from me to pay
and lost. He never paid f for f tie over
coat and | suppose kept the money"
ANOTHER CASE.
Mrs. Connell had some difficulty
with a neighbor and she was arrested
for an assault. The court fined her
81 and costs amounting to s15.25
She paid the money to Bowron to set
tie the fine and costs. The lawyer
did not settle, but Mrs. Connell did
not learn this until she was about to
leave for St. Joe last night, when
Constable Ramsey levied on her
household effects to satisfy the fine
and costs.
About midnight Mrs. Connel! ap-
pealed to Mayor Stevens to assist her.
He could do nothing. This morning
BowrOn was sent for to come TO the
Mayors Office where he met his vic
tim and the Mayor. He finally adj
mitted that he owed Mrs. COnnell
four dollars and went out to get the
money. At noon he had not re.
turned. About noon Mrs. Cornell
swore out a states warrant charging
BOwron with larceny.
The trial of Bowrou is going on this
evening before Justice Blair. If be
gets clear it is TO be hoped he will
cease his very questionable practices.
LATER.-The defendant was dis.
charged, there not being sufficient
evidence to hold him.