The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-12-12
MAKES ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT.

Leaving Sedalla. Joyce spent I:
short time on the Hannibal Il st. Joe
road. his friend, Col. Stevens, having
secured for him passenger train.
While running into st. Joe. Joyce
made the acquaintance of one of the
most estimabie young ladies in tina;
city He Was her devoted admirer
for ~ome months. which eventually
resulted in Il marriage engagement
between them. Neither the Young
lady nor her relatives knew of Joyce
past conduct. aud the wedding day
was finally set Shortly after this
event. 4 gentleman who resided in
, Sedalia had business in st. Joe. and
while there ne met an acquaintance
who informed him that Joyce. late of
the NJ, K. Il 7. railway, was then
running Il train on the Hannibal 4
St Joe road and was soon to be united
in wedlock t. one of the bellies Of the
city.
| CAUGHT UP WITH.
Then it was the Sedalian disclosed
JOyccs true character, and within a
few hours the affianced oil the liber-
tine conductor knew the past history
of the man to whom she had plighted
her troth. There was but one thing
to do and this the lady did-sum-
marily dismissed Joyce the next time
ne called and ever after refused to see
him.
Knowing that his cake was dough,
as it were, Joyce resigned his position
on the H. 4 st. J. and proceeded
to Texas. where he was given a pas
senger train on the International &
Great Northern railway, with San
Antonio as one Of the terminal points
on his run.
STILL ANOTHER.
Located in a new field. with the
black past behind him, joyce set
about making other conquests. The
pOstmistress of San Antonio was a
widow, and had been left a snug for
tune by her husband. In addition,
she was young and attractive, and
when Joyce met her he laid siege to
her heart. success, H. usual, browning
his efforts as wOOer. and in brief
period she was his bride The fortune
the lady held in her own name was
rapidly squandered by joyce, and in
few months nothing remained.
STRANGE TO TELL, ANOTHER
Joyce disappeared. His whereabouts
were unknown to the railroad people
of Southern Texas. Where he wan
dered no one but himself and his God
knew. On the 18th of July, 1888,
however. the scoundrel again come to
light and brought prominently before
the public in one of his old roles.
This time it was ut Il small station be-
tween San Antonio and Laredo.
A few months before this joyce had
made the acquaintance of Miss Sarah
Cass, an intelligent young lady, who
resided on the Medina river, a short
distance southwest of San Antonio.
To see was to covet. and the libertine
set about to win her for his own base |
purpose. Again was he successful,
and OH the 9th day of July, of that |
year, he persuaded Miss Cass to leave |
her home and join him i'm San An
tonic. where they stopped at the Lon
don house. While stopping there,
Joyce read to her telegram saving
that it was necessary for him to 90 at
once 10 Laredo, and he set about max
ing arrangements To leave
MISS CAss AT QUINTAN,
4 station on the Medina, near her par
ents' home. Shortly after reading
her the telegram. and just before the
train was leaving. joyce appeared
with glass of lemonade, which the
Young lady drank. This lemonade
undoubtedly contained chloroform or
As Miss Cass knew nothing
that occurred from the time she swal-
lowed it until she found herself in
hotel at Laredo. Here she was in
iuced at the point of pistol to marry
Joyce, the ceremony being performed
bv some one in authority or assuming
to have the authority. The next day
:he was taken from Laredo to Hous-
ton, Texas, where .Ioyce abandoned
her, saying he intended going to Old
Mexico to find home.
INDIGNATION IN TENAS.
From Houston the young woman
returned To San Antonio, frantic with
yrief and apparently insane. and was
net by her brother, Mr. Alex Cass,
who took her in charge and sent her
% her parents, where she has since
been without recovering her reason.
The outrage was one almost without