The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-11-01

beat her If he knew she was out riding
with someone else, and for this reason
had told u falseho0d.
THAT BUNDLE.
Robinson called at tie livery stable
Monday morning and secured bum
die which had been left in the buggy
the night before and which Tailed in
every respect with the description
: given Of the one Johanna
Schoolman took with her when she
left Mayor Stevens. Detective Apple
gate, of 81. Louis, asked him what it
contained:
Was it her night-gown?
20 no." Robinson answered, 1T
was some kind of black stuff"
Later on when questioned he said
il was a bundle of old papers and still
later on told a BAZoo representative
and Others that it was bundle of
natural leaf tobacco.
/ Robinson states that he took the
bundle home and placed it in box
where it could he found. He also
stated that he had asked Mayor
Stevens to 90 and look for it. The
bundle has been searched for but has
not been found, thus forging another
link of the chain which seems to he
Tightening around the suspected man.
MISS HANNAH
One clue which the detectives work
ed upon from the first was the manner
in which Johanna was called out of
Mrs. Miller's house. \ man drove
up ina buggy and called for Miss
Hannah
Ii Is common among colored peO-
pie IN the south to put the prefix
Mis- before the name OF all ladies. /
and Hannah" was the name Robinson
always gave the Schollman girl. From
this the detectives imagined at the .
start that the man who called for her /
was Dick himself and that she went !,
out with him.
IN THE ICE CREAM PARLOR.
The officers explain Miss Scholl-
mans appearance in the ice cream
parlor, if indeed she was there at all. !
by surprising that Dick left her while
he put up the rig between and .
o'clock. They think that she then
picked up this white man on the
street and with him stopped for ice
cream.
Dick was looking for her and called
Il second time at Millers. When he
found her. it is as likely that thew
quarreled over her trip with the white
man as anything else. /,
WAS NOT OUTRAGED.
The story that the murdered girl
had been outraged was denied to-day.
The evidence was very light in the first
place and was caught at on the spur
Of the moment when all was excite
ment over the case 1t has since been
decided that the slight abrasion was
nothing more than what might have
been caused by undue intimacy with
one or more men that night.
EoBINsoN's STORY.
The accused man, or rather, the ,
man under suspicion, was seen at the
Jail by Il BAzoO reporter this morning. :
Mt first he denied knowing anything
about the ease, but after few ques- j
lions talked freely. He said that he .
engaged Il buggy at Fields livery i
stable on Main street about Z o'clock +;
sunday night and took a girl, Frances !
Williams. out riding. He returned
The buggy about half a past eight and I
hen went over to the cOlored church. ! 9
IN the north side, returning to Mayor
stevens Immediately after the service.
vas over. When confronted with the
Williams girls statement he said she {
lad told a fal>chood to screen herself l.
: she had another fellow b
Who would beat her it he knew she Il
vas out riding. He claimed that .Jo-
'anna had asked him repeatedly To b
axe her out to her uncle'>, but he had u
efuscd. The bundle he left in the y
uggy, he said, contained natural leaf y
Dbacc". He denied ever having W
bought of marrying the girl, but said al
he intended To 20 to Nebraska and NJ
larry white man there. He posi- u
velv asserted tha, he wa> at home all I'll
light.
ABorT rorE O'clock.
There Is Il rumor which could not m
2 traced down. that Robinson had co
zen seen going into MayOr Stevens 81
able, where he sleeps, about I o'clock de
Ionday morning. RI