The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-11-22
VILE CLARK.
A Breast Who Should Be
Branded With an indellible
Mark Among Men.
George CIark's Latest Victim
Who is Now Beyond the
Reach of the libertine.

respondent tells the following touch
ing tale of woe:
"a few weeks age Miss Emily Gle
land, the Young, handsome and az
compliShed daughter OF DIR. T. III.
Cleland, pastor of the Galway Pres
byterian church, on st. Louis street.
in this city. left ho'ae ostens,bly for a
visit to relatives and friends in Gin
cinnati. The young lady vas appar-
emily vel! and happy when she babe
her Springfield friends good-,by. When
on last Monday DIR ClelaDd received
Il telegram announcing the dangerous
illness of his daughter. which was
quickly followed by another message
telling Of the death of the Young lady,
the parents were overwhelmed with
grief, and the society people Of Spring
field
COULD HARDLY REALIZE
the truth of the strange, sad news.
On "Wednesday night the body of the
deceased reached Springfield, accom-
panied by LAZY from Covingtan.
Ky. The funeral took place Thurs
day morning al the family residence
on East Walnut street. II was a sad
unusual event. The leading ministers
of the city and MANY of DIR. Gle
lands friends outside bis large and
fashionable congregation were presen,
but the shadow of a deeper sorrow
than that of death seemed to intensity
the gloom of the occasion. There
were grave runners about the cause Of
Miss Cleland's Sudden Death Soon
after the funeral these fragmentarv
reports took the form of coherent
story with the most tragic features f!
Ii became evident that the Young /
lady had sought to shield herself from |
disgrace, and thus died
IN 4 JEWISH HOSPITAL
in Cincinnati, after submitting tn a
surgical operation. The painful story
As told by Mrs. Ross. the lsdv friend
who brought the remains home, is.ub-
stantially as follows:
Miss Cleland went 10 Cincinnati the
latter part of October and stopped for
a short time with the Ross family in
that city. About week ago the
young lady left the home of the Roses
saying that she was going over to
COvingtOn, KY, to visit an aunt.
She was seen no more alive
by her friends In a few
mornings after her departure MIR.
Ross saw in Cinninaatti paper the ;
notice of the death at aJewlsh hospital :
of a young lady whose name was given
as Mrs. f. Clarke. The description
of the deceased excited the fears and /
suspicious of Mr.. Ross, and going to
the hospital, he found these grave APP
prehensiOns confirmed. The body
awaiting identification was none other
than that of his late guest,
MISS EMILY CLELAND.
She had diedtwelve hours after having
an operation performed. When told
that she must die, the young lady sent
for old physician, friend of her
and to him 1t is said she re-
ated the sad story of her ruin.
Last summer Miss C!eland became
with a wealthy young
arofigate ofSpringfield. George Clark,
whose career of wickedness has made f
him notorious throughout this section N
# the state. This dissipated young a
nan married, about three years ago, a
Miss Grace Newsome, of this city, V
whose family occupies very high n
ocial position through Southwest %
Missouri, Mrs. Senator CockreIl be- il
ng a relative of the Newsomes. After Il
lis marriage Clark took his Young il
wife to Mexico and then to Europe, m
pending nearly a year abroad. When al
he young couple returned home, p
lark went to ROlla to attend the II!
SCHOOL OF MINES. Ill
In February, 1891. Clark created
ensation here by inStituting divorce
nit against his wife, alleging that a
rofessOr Of chemistry in the ROlla x
rhool had allienated her affections. ar
lrs. Clark answered the charges in a of
engthy letter, published in the Globe st,
Democrat at the time, in which she ii
old sad story of wrongs. coupled pa p.
18th many additional revelations re- tn
pecting her husbands depravity. ju
'ublic sympathy was on the side of Fl
Dung wife, and a separation followed. 10 TO
ince then Clark has gone into So ~ ~.
iety. giving up some Of his grosSer st:
abits. He is young, handsome, and in
Ponds money freely. Last summer, FRI
ceordingto the story, he engaged Miss to t,
'leland's brother to give him private a
sssons in history and some other m,