, 1891-09-19
muscular Christianity.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. lS.-The case of
the state against Lester Drake, charged
with assault and battery upon J. T. Var
ley, was called in Justice Shannon court
this afternoon. Marley is a prepossessing
young Englishman who resides at I7O4
Troost avenue. Drake Is an athletic
young divinity student, who lives next
door. The cause of the assault and
brakes arraignment in court was Miss
Ruby Drake, the young mans pretty 16-
year-old sister. Until recently Miss Ruby
clerked at the jewelry counter of a big
department house down town, over which
Marley had charge. The young lady AYERS
that on Sept. 4. at 2 o'clock in the after
noon. to be exact, the ~Englishman, In one
Of her unguarded moments, deliberately
and with malice aforethouRht, stole a kiss
from her pretty lips. The first thing
Mr.. Varley's clerk did when she got home
was to tell her brother what had happened
behind the jewelrv counter. The mex
morning as Varley stepped out of his
house he was much surprised to find Les
ter Drake awaiting him on the outside.
He was more surprised when the hard
listed young preacher dealt him three blows
on the head and neck. Varley's pride
was aroused, and he had Drake arrested
on a charge of assault and battery. He
maintains that he is innocent of having
ever kissed Miss Ruby. The young lady,
he asserts, made a mistake In surprising
she had been kissed. He remembered
one time at which both of them stopped
over to get goods for customers. They
were near together, and. in an outburst Of
candor, the young man asserts that that
must have been the moment at which his
companion conceived that she was kissed.
When the case against young Drake was
called this afternoon he took a continuance
until Sept. %. He threatens to prose-
cute Varley for kissing his sister. Varley,
who has lost his position at the jewelry
threatens to sue the department house for
dropping him without cause. Miss
brakes mother has evidently arrived at
the conclusion that a jewelry counter is
not a proper place for a young girl.
especially Vt she be a pretty one, and has
put the young lady in school.
A Conductor ALLIED bv a Passa.-ss.
VINIrA, /. T Sept. Io.-Tom Ferrier,
a 81. Louis and San Francisco railroad
conductor, was killed just after his train
left this place last evening by William
Miller, a stockmau. Miller was in the
employee OF Winfield Scott, an extensive
cattleman, and was taking a train load of
cattle to st. Louis. Before reaching
here the men had been quarreling. At
this place the train crew went to supper.
and Miller went up town and got a pistol.
The train had not proceeded a mile and a
half before Ferrier was a corpse, shot
through the heart. The train went on to
Alton. the first station east. where Miller
hired a man to go on with
the cattle and gave himself up to an
officer and where and inquest was held.
Miller claims that Ferrier attempted to
strike him with a stick used to set the
brake with. The hind brakeman, it is
reported, says the first shot was fired
while the conductor was in the cupola of
the caboose. Certain it is that a struggle
occurred in the forward end OF the ca
boose. and there Ferrier was found dead,
his clothes powder burned. Miller was
shot through the thigh by his own pistol,
he says, while he was lying on his back
struggling with his antagonist. The mat
ter will be tried in the United States
court at Fort Smith, Ark, which has
jurisdiction over this county.