Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-07-05
A WAR; OF JUDGE
". ". Bolts ELoPEs.
sarah Baf Ie YsAn Old. : Daughter
Of Alfred Buff Of Vandklia Who
Recently Served . PsziteR-
tiary Sentence for Killing
His Wife, Ropes.

Last Tuesday afternoon Miss Sarah
Buf aged sixteen and ]. W. Ross
aged d, both Of Perry, Rails county,
arrived 10 HannahiL- Just before the
train bearing the young couple ar
rived IN Hannibal Marshal Ritcbard-
son received = telephone message
from Alfred Buff. father OF the girl.
requesting him to arrest the couple
and detain them until the next day
when he would arrive and explain
matters The officers failed 60 appre-
bend the Young couple CO their arrival
and they were not a~pprehendsd until
Just after the noon hour yesterday. 1t
appears that as soon as they arrived
10 Hannibal they went to the home OF
.Cassius HesketL No. l4&S Lincoln
street, where the girl secured . posi-
ton and Mr.. Ross accepted a position
at the Stillsell ice plant They re
manned In these positions until yes
terday when they were arrested by
|Onicers Mulnern and Gee. They we're
arrested on complaint Of the girls
father who claimed that Ross had
stolen his daughter and eloped with
her.
After being arrested they were TAX
en- before Judge Scott when 1t devel.
oped that the girl is under the protec-
ton OF = guardian and that the faith
er has no jurisdiction over her. Judge
Scott therefore took nc cogniL2nce OF
the case and the couple were taken 70
the police station By the officers and
| detained.
While at the station 4 Journal re-
preventative interviewed them and
CLEANED the following facts: Some
four or five years ago Alfred Butf, the
father Of the young lady in question,
was sent to the penitenti2ry from
Audrain county for a term OF eigh'
teen months for killing his wife. He
served out bis sentence in the state
prison and In the mean time Judge
W. W. Bolts Of Mexico was appoint
ed guardian Of the five minor children
Of Buff Of which Miss Sarah Is one o.
the number. Judge Bolts Is still bel
guardian the order Of the court ap
pointing him IS such having never
been revoked. After Bud returned
from the p~enitentiary be went to keep
ing house and Sarah was the house
keeper. The family finally moved u
Perry; Rails county, where Buff en-
gagged in mining. Ii is alleged that b
] treated bis daughter cruelty and o.
one or two occasions drove her AVA
: from home. ]. W. Ross, who is ais
a miner, boarded with the family o
Buff and says that Buff treated tn
girl so badly that be decided to I'm
! her a home, and 1t was for that pun
5 pose that he accompanied her TO Har
4 nibal. he says be did not accompan
her TO Hannibal with the intention {
r marrying her, at least for the presen
and the young lady corrobOrated h
-. statement On being asked why b
did not obtain the consent Of the girl
guardian to marry, be said: This
what We have concluded TO do an
after comforting with the young Lad
a minnie or two they started TO Il
central Office Of the Bell Telephone
= communicate with Judge Bolts
Mexico. But they did not reach Il
: central station for on their way the
they met Sheriff Addison and DepuI
Sheriff Frank Brown OF Rails Count
who took them in charge and toC
them to New London as the offens
IL any, was committed In Rails cou
".
The young lady, who says she W
be seventeen years old in Septemb
next is quite pretty and does not loI
= TO be over fifteen years old. She
very modest and has every appel
ance of being a perfect little lad
Mr. Ross told the Journal report
that be had called on her but on
:. since they arrived in Hannibal Ia
Tuesday.