Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-09
MISSOURI MAN AND GIRL UNDER AR.
REST THERE.
SEQUEL TO CELEBRATED CASE.
PARTIES ARE GEORGE BEABOUT
AND ETHEL DRIsKEL.
Beabout Seeking to Compel = Girl
Whom He In Under Sentence for
AssaultinE to ExOnernte
Him-Miss Drlskel As
sistinH Him.

Wichita, Kas.. Sept. S.-(SpeciaL) This
morning a pretty girl. rather dark, small
and 16 years of age. accompanied by q
man about 80 years old. arrived in this
city and the girl was registered at the
Manhattan hotel under the name of Miss
Ethel Smith. St. Joseph, Mo. The man
went to the police headquarters and stated
that he was here to locate Mrs. Jane Cor
win and her daughter. Edith. and that the
Corwin girl was wanted in Missouri for
perjury. He gave his name as George
Beabout. of Hopkins, Mo. The police re-
fused to assist him in making the search.
as he failed to produce the proper creden-
tials.
Shortly after he left the station the chief
of police received telegram from Missouri
asking him to arrest George Beabout and
his companion, whose correct name was
given as Ethel Driskel, and giving the fol-
lowing additional information:
Case of kidnapping. Confer with Mrs.
Corwin, 935 North Market street. Hold for
sheriff of Nodaway county,
The girl was arrested at the Manhattan.
and Beabout was found at resort on
North Main street, playing whist.
To-day's sensation is sequel to one Of
the most widely celebrated cases that was
ever tried in the state of Iowa. In October,
1885, George Beabout and John Ewing. both
of Nodaway county, No., drove across the
state line into Taylor county. Ia, where
Myrtle Bristow and Edith Corwin, two
school girls of Hopkins, Mo-, were visiting,
and induced the girls to go riding with
them. The two men criminally assaulted
the girls and were afterwards arrested.
Beabout was tried first and sentenced to
twenty years in the Iowa penitentiary. Two
months later. Ewing was tried and SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary.
Ewing is still doing time. but Beabout ap-
pealed his case to the supreme court and
after two months Imprisonment was re-
leased on IS, 900 bond.
While in prison he repeatedly declared
that if he ever got out the first thing he
did would be to kill Edith Corwin. AS soon
as Beabout was released Mrs. Corwin and
her daughter fed to this city and have
been living in seclusion, fearing he would
execute his threats. Mrs. Corwin and her
daughter have received several kilograms
from friends in Nodaway county to-day,
warning them to beware of Beabout. Miss
Driskel. the girl brought here BY Beabout,
was one of the states witnesses in his trial.
and not only has he won her over to his
side, but she was to help him INDUCE Edith
Corwin to sign an affidavit that she per-
jured herself when she testified against
Beabout.
The Missouri sheriff will arrive in the
morning.
A. his trial Beabout claimed that Edith
Corwin and Myrtle Bristow wrote a letter
to John Ewing. stating that they were in
Bedford, Ia, and requested the men TO
come up there and have a time" He testi-
fed that the consent of both girls had been
procured. Ewing made the same admis-
sionS.
Beabout has a wife and children. who
have remained devoted to him throughout
all the trouble. He had been drinking heav-
lily when arrested to-day. He is low,
heavy-set man, with fair complexion and
gray eyes.
Hopkins, Mo-, as follows: Hold George
Beabout. He has jumped s. 900 bond"