The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-31
A PAIR OF CROOKS.
Two Young Ex-Convicts Play a
Brief Engagement in
Sedalia.

| SooaIla.
A Gaze Of more than passing inter
est occupied the attention of Justic'
Fisher and Prosecuting Attorney HoA
man nearly all of this morning.
Monday night, about 8 O'Clock, /.
young man named Charles johnson
arrived in Sedalia on q freight trair
from Kansas City. He beat his way
in q box car.
Monday and Tuesday, he loitered
about town unobserved, and, as sub.
sequent events 90 to show, for the
purpose of committing theft.
Yesterday afternoon he found an
opportunity to try his hand.
He slipped into the stable Of Prose
cutting Attorney Hoffman on Missouri
avenue and Ninth street, and stole a
saddle and get Of buggy harness.
These he took to the market square
and threw them up on a wagon load
of wood standing there and belonging
to a farmer, who had gone out in
town.
johnson then hasteneda block away
to Peter Arben, a secondhand
dealer, told him that he had a load
Of wood, a saddle and some harness he
would like to sell. ARDEN returned
with the unsupported thief to the
square, and bought the harness and
saddle for S.. He did not want the |
wood.
ARDEN soon discovered that the man |
rom whom he made the purchase
vas not straight and had him arrested
" Officer Myers.
johnson was locked up in the Gala
'oose over night, and this morning he
Eas arraigned before Justice Fisher.
lie confessed to stealing the saddle and
arness.
Last night Officer Drake arrested a
outh in East Sedalia on the charge of
,te hours and locked him up.
He gave his name as Jim Melon
ID. When he and johnson met
ach other in the police court, the {
liter claimed that Mcdonald was his :
al. They are both ex-convicts from I
he Missouri penitentiary, and had j
nown each other there. 9
johnson claimed that he and /
[cDonald came together from !
ansas City to Sedalia in all
X car, and that they had plan b
ID a robbery here together. Nc o
onald denied the story, and told a d
lerably straighttale. Johnsonis mar o
tive was considered an attempt to S
lplicate Mcdonald 60 that his own I
lnishment would be made the lighter. a
ldge Fisher therefore dismissed the c,
&c against Mcdonald.
johnson is about 20 years old, we'll
essed and has the appearance ofbe-
: not only thief but fluent liar. al
e has lived in Hannibal and various lie
her portions of the country and was hi
emily released from the Missouri to
where he had served a sc
'rt time for larceny. He "!
; several aliases. II
The Justice fined him $40, which hi
} prisoner was unable to pay, and tn
8 sent to Jail. all
-cDonald is also about 20 years old. tn
served term in the penitentiary,
ng sent from Kansas City three La
RS ago for assault with intent to at
|. He has several aliases, among an
m being the names Charles Reed, ut
arles Mcdonald, Lew Ed HI
'ds. His right name is said tn
,e Charles Lewis. ba
ustice Fisher was somewhat en-
raised in passing upon the case, HI
reluctantly released Mcdonald, tel
inst whom, however, the charge of at
rancy was Immediately preferred fial
to which he plead guilty. res
9th Mcdonald and johnson are ed
ng crooks of the worst character VIII
the officers did a fortunate piece twt
,ork when they arrested them. ant
[cDOnald claims to be from st. the
!, Minnesota, snd says he has been tina
fissouri about FIVE wears. He is of
known to the police authorities of the
sas City. ing
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