The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-03-22
MRS. HARRY FRlSTO.
The Identity Of the Woman Who
Abandoned Her Babe. Known

She Is the Vernon, Ills, Char.
actor Who Stayed at kisiah
Bolon's on Cooper
Street.
Three weeks ago Friday there land
ed in this city . young woman who
was in the advanced stages of mater.
nifty. She had but one friend in the
city, Ms. Ed Qusrrels, to whom she
applied for help. Unable to take her
in her own home, Ma. Quarrels made
arrangements to house the woman with
aunt Kisiah Bolou, and old colored
woman living at III Cooper street,
and who bears the reputation Of being
. first-clas nurse. Just one week after
her arrival the woman gave birth to .
bouncing boy. Hearing Of the sin.
gular circumstance Q BAzoo reporter
called at the Cooper street house, and
learned the following story from the
suffering womso's lips:
Ny msiden name 10 Aunie Rodgers
and I was born in Kentucky. Four
years ago I came TO Sedalia, and
was employed at the City Hotel,
where I remained only for . short
tine. going from here to Vernon. ILL.,.
where / met and married Harry Frys-
10, who was Ut that time Q travelling
salesman for . St. Louis clothing
house.
It was too late whom I discovered
that my husband WAS . drunkard. for
no sooner had our honeymoon been
spent than he began to maltreat me.
he was eventually discharged
from bic st. Louis position. his en-
ployen alleging that be had misap-
propriated several suits Of clothes.
he next secured . place in . grocery
store ct Vernon and was likewise die
charged from this place. Last Sep
tember be disappeared and I have
heard nothing from him since."
This was the womsn's pitiful story
% related to . BAzoo reporter Friday
moroing two weeks ago at aunt Kisiah
Bolons house III Cooper street.
This sa6 case Of desertion and desti-
tuition had almost been forgotten BY
the BAzoo when it was wildly recall.
ed BY the strange action of . woman
who Friday evening ct the union depot
abandoned her babe.
The woman according to the depot
matron, Aunt Salina, arrived on the
west bound passenger train due
here from St. Louis ct 3:25. After
repairing to the ladies' waiting room
where abe made her toilet and cared
for her babe, the woman asked the
matron how long before Q train to
Holden would be due.
Being informed that she would
either have to wait till morning or 70
on . freight due about 8 o'clock, she
said she would 90 ON the freight.
Later on the woman left the depot
with her child and came up town,
returning . few minutes before
her train arrived.
Proceeding to the ladies' waiting
room she lsid her babe on . seat and
went out on the platform and was lost
in the crowd coogregsted on the plat
form. She was not seen any more.
The matron summoned police aid and
Officer Murphy induced Mra Walter,
who lives on West Main street to pro.
vide for the child through the night.
A BAzoo reporter visited this place
yesterday morning and saw the child,
. wee bit Of . thing that nestled in
the bed clothing like . 'rosebud in q
crown Of thorns." Mrs. Walters VA
very kind, indeed. to provide for the
little one. having washed and dressed
it in clothes made BY her own hands,
and having at up with it al night.
The child Was turned over to the city
authorities yesterday and will perhaps
be taken in charge BY the local Chill
drenis Home society.
The depot matron's description o.
the fsithless mother led . BAzo0 70
porter to again witt Aunt Kisiah Bo.
Ions house and was rewarded BY re
ceiving information that beyond
doubt proves that Nm. Harry Ffysto
and the woman Who abandoned hen
chld are ono and the same.
| Aunt Kisiah stated that Mn
lFysao received IS from her brother
in-laW ct Vernon, Illinois, Thursday,
and on that night departed - che said
for the plaoe whence the money had
been sent She vas accompanied Il
the depot BY Mrs. Ed. QuaFrels and
Mn. Mary Moushill, coloree. Sht
wore Q Mohair dress, back fell
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