The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-07
WHERE ARE THE SHEEP?
Two Well Known Sedalians Ar
rested, Charged With
Committing a Crime.
Is Mr.. Stevenson a Myth p
The Woodland Brothers
Held to Bail.

stable Barnett made two arrests about
3 80 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
which promise to prove Of much i'm
pOrtance.
The persons arrested are Thomas
Woodard and w. II. Woodland, broth
ers, and sons of Mr.. Woodland, q we'll
known gardener who resides in the
northern part of the city, on the
main road leading to Marshall.
The warrants upon which they were
apprehended were sworn out by Perry
Deweese and j. r. Rissler,
and the charge against
them is that of stealing 1O2 head of
Merino sheep.
The young men were brought into
Justice Levens' court and were closely
questioned by Prosecuting Attorney
Hoffman.
w. X. Woodlands story runs as fol-
lows: He gives his age as Is years.
Late in the afternoon of Tuesday,
January "a, he
MOCNIEO dIS fOSE
and started to visit Edwin Davis, a
relative, who lives eight miles south
of Sedalia, and who had recently re-
turned home, sick, from the Indian
Territory.
Just before reaching Thatcher's
ford, across Flat creek, the hour be-
ing about 8 o'clock, young Woodward
came upon a stranger, whose name is
given as j. NJ. Stevenson, driving a
flock of 102 sheep along the road.
MIR. Stevenson accOsted the traveller
on the pony and asked him where he
was going. A satisfactory reply was
given, and then the owner of the
sheep inquired of the young
man if he knew anything
about handling stock. He replied
that he did, whereupon, Stevenson
told him that he had lot of hogs to
look after in Sedalia, and that if he
(WOodard) would drive the flock
through to Mora, which is a small
station on the Narrow Guage railroad,
load them on the ears and consign
them to a certain stockyard in St.
Louis, he would pay him literally for
his trouble. Stevenson wrote, in pen
ell, on
LEAF OF NOTE
paper, some necessary directions in
regard to the shipment, borrowed
Woodlands pony and returned to Sc
dalia.
Woodland started southwark with
the sheep, walking, and travelled all
that night. He met a few people on
the road, and arrived at Mora about
10 o'clock the next morning.
With the assistance of Peter H.
Holtzen, the depot agent at that sta
ton. he loaded the flock into two cars
and shipped them back to Sedalia,
where, at the Fifth street Narrow
Gauge depot they were transferred to
Missouri Pacific cars and sent to
their destination.
W. r. Woodland says that, upon
his return home the same day, his
brother Tom and Mr.. Stevenson met
him at the Narrow Gauge depot, and
that the latter paid him Sl.75 for de-
livering the sheep at Mora and At
tending to their Shipment.
So much of the boys story. 1t
is certainly most unusual and re-
markable one, and will be
THOROUGHLY OvERHAULED
when the defendant is put upon the
stand.
Thomas Woodland is a handsome,
shrewd, polite, well-dressed man of
perhaps - years. StOck-buying,
trading AMI selling is his occupation.
He was also closely questioned, but
disclaims any connection with the
transaction. He stated that he was
present with Mr.. Stevenson at the
Narrow Gauge depot when the sheep
arrived, hut that his brother, W. r.,
said very little to him concerning the
matter.
a BAzoo representative had
Il brief interview with Mr.. De
weese, who alleged that he
and Mr.. Rissler had been pasturing
these sheep some two miles east of Sc
dalia, and that a morning or two after
January ~, they were found to he
missing.
For some reasOnOr reasons not men,
toned, they suspected the Woodland
brothers, and had warrants sworn out
for their arrest as heretofore stated.
The Woodlands had worked on his farm
a short while last summer.
There are two mysterious questions
connected with this case: What has
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