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Sedalia Democrat: Friday, September 24, 1897. 1 Getting ML. JUL 'WVW I New Fall Style $4.00 ROELOFF HATS This Week $2.50 eservino" it is C7 the best Jackson and Joe McKeehan would be nollied Tuesday in 'Squire Russell's court. And thus ends the "great sensation," which was evolved from Andy Stills and the imaginative brain of an enterprising newspaper reporter. The Defendants Held.

Fully 300 persons were at Sutherland, Johnson county, Tuesday, to hear the preliminary hearing of Hull, Jackson and McKeehan on the charge of abducting Mrs. Andy Stills, of Benton county. Owing to the excited talk, Prosecuting Attorney Bradley, of Warrensburg, decided to go on with the trial instead of dismissing the case, as he had intended. The boys took a change of venue, and the case will come up before 'Squire Nason, of Leeton, next Monday, each giving bond, in $1,000 for his appearance. After court adjourned D.

L. Sutherland invited all law abiding citizens to remain and express their opinions as to the proper course to pursue in consequence of the day's developments. Prosecuting Attorney Bradley was called upon for a statement, and that gentleman told the story of his being taken to a camp in the woods where a woman, who was pointed out to him as Airs. Stills was found surrounded by fifteen men in various starres of way to keep it after we get it. That's our principle and you'll find these hats creat talkers for us bv their merit.

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The Other Side. Prosecuting Attorney Nick Bradley returned last night from Jefferson township, where he went to investigate the Stills abduction and outrage story, says Saturday's Warrensburg Star. While Mr. Bradley would not say much about the crime, he said that he came back feeling that there was something in the tale related by young Stills. This morning, however, two prominent farmers from that section of the county came to War rensburg and had a conversation with the prosecuting attorney which served to alter his opinion very materially, and he now believes there is considerable less in the affair than he did last dvening.

Mr, Bradley visited the houses along the road where the trouble is supposed to have taken place, and talked with the people who live in them. The inhabitants say they heard shots and shouts and screams, but from whom they proceeded they had no means of telling. A Daily Star reporter interviewed Dave and George Cooper, two farmers of Jefferson township, whose reputation for truth and va racity is as good as anyone in the county. The crime, if such it should prove to be, occurred in a half mile of where thev live. Still came to Cooper's home at night and stated that some men had "stolen his woman," and wanted Mr.

Cooper to help hunt the men. Mr. Cooper placed very little confidence in Still's storv, as it was "gauzy" on the face of it, so he paid no attention to it. He said that the accused parties were good citizens and came of excellent families, and had all appeared and given bond for their appearance at the trial, when the case will be thor oughly ventilated Mr. Cooper further stated that Stills and his wife, he was satisfied, were a tough set, and that the woman had been seen since the occurrence in the brush in that neighborhood.

There is4no great excitement, no prospect of lynching and nothing, in fact, to raise any great hue and cry over. As near as the Star can ascertain the whole affair seems to be a bad case of jag, and a fake newspaper sensation of gigantic1 proportions. The latest in regard to the case is the following dispatch from Windsor, dated the 19th: "Constable Hudson returned from White Sulphur Springs today, where he had been to sub pom a witnesses in the Mrs. Stills abduction case, and re ports that the missing Mrs. Stills has been at home with her mother since the abduction until 11 a.

m. Saturday." Later Developments. The sensational story of the ab duction, robbery, vilification, de filement, repeated outrage and un lawful detainment of Mrs. Andrew Stills, of Benton county, about which columns of double leaded and and scare head matter have been published, has been thorough ly exploded and proven to be a trumped up fabrication of the silliest character. The Warrensburg Star of Monday gives the latest phase of the case, as follows A prominent farmer of Jefferson township sought out Prosecuting Attorney Bradley and informed him that turther investigation would disclose the true facts in the case, and advised him to agian visit the scene of the alleged crime for further evidence.

Accordingly, bright and early Sunday morning the attorney harnessed his horse and again set out for Jefferson township. This time no reporter accompanied him, but the history of his investigation will be faithfully recorded just the same. The journey was accomplished without incident, and the attorney drew rein at the house of Mr. Gibson, one of the "indignant," "aroused" farmers, who was "determined that justice snouia ue uunc Messrs. Gibson, O'Day.

Ilan thorn, the three Cooper brothers and John McDonald, all of them farmers, accompanied by Prosecutor Bradley, were piloted by James Hull, one of the young men accused of the triple crime, to a point in the dense timber eight or nine miles northeast of Mr. Gibson's farm. The place is just over the Johnson county line in Pettis, and is on the banks of a little creek known as Elk Fork. It is densely wooded and forms an ideal camping spot, especially for people who are not particular about the whole community finding out just what business they are engaged in. As Mr.

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On a rassv knoll in the midst of the forest were fifteen men, sitting or lying in various positions, while in the center was a rough pallet of straw, over which a lap robe had carelessly been thrown It was ev idently a throne for the "Queen of the Camp," but it was unoccupied just then, for "her royal highness" was absent just at that particular moment. When the proper time arrived Mr. radio and his staff of "in dignant" farmers charged upon the camp. The men were taken by surprise, and consternation was written upon every countenance. They were immediately reassured, however, by Mr.

Bradley, and resumed their former positions. The new arrivals joined the party gathered around the throne and silently waited, for all conversation just at that moment was of a rather desultory nature. Thv had not loner to wait. In a few moments the 4 4 queen of the camp" emerged from the underbrush with her arm around the neck of a young man. It was Mrs.

Andrew Stills, the "wronged and outraged girl wife," the "innocent young bride" whose awful experiences had been depicted in double leaded bourgeois in the columns of a Warrensburg afternoon paper for three days previous. And the young man with her was not her husband, either. As she entered the group of young men she glanced around, laughed and asked, "Aren't you through with my pallet yet?" then laid down on the lap robe, Mr. Bradley glanced at the faces of the indignant" farmers, and saw intense disgust, rather than indignation, plainly written thereon. The young woman was called aside and questioned by the prosecutor.

She said that the man who had asked her to leave her husband's cart on the evening of the alleged crime was Hull, who had accompanied Mr. Bradley's party to the camp. She stated that she went willingly, and that no force was used. She, left her husband because she was tired of him, did not want to and would not go back, and did not care to see him again. She further stated that Stills' story was false, and that for the past summer she had been pros tituting her body at his directions, with his full knowledge and consent, and that the two had traveled from place to place, gaining their livelihood by that means.

When the disgusting story of shame and disgrace had been concluded, Mr. Ilanthorn turned to James Hull and offered him his hand with the remark, "I'm through, Jim." Everyone of the farmers present echoed the same sentiment, for the story of an awful, outrageous crime in their peaceful community had been completely exploded. The men returned to their homes with the feeling that there had been "much ado about nothing;" and Mr. Bradley, after telling all witnesses that they need not appear before Esquire Russell Tuesday, returned to Warrensburg utterly disgusted at the great fake sensation and the trouble it had caused him. The above facts were given to a Daily Star reporter this mornim .1 iUo tin Aiirr01 Tn'lf THE MISSING WIFE The Latest in Regard to the Abduction Case.

A PROSTRATED HUSBAND His Story of the Outrage Corroborated in Many WaysOther Side of the Case. Indignant with the sense of outraged justice, the honest and law abiding farmers of Jefferson township are leaving no stone unturned which may help to punish the men guilty of the dastardly outrage alleged to have been committed 'Monday night, September 12, on the young wife of Andrew Stills by Wesley7 Jackson, James Hull and Jos. McKeen, says a Warrens burg telegram to the St. Louis Post Dispatch of Sunday. A reporter visited the scene of the crime, twenty miles southeast of Warrensburg.

The community is aroused and excited. Thev are investigating every detail, and they assure one another and young Stills that justice will be done. Last Thursday sixty prominent farmers of Jefferson township went to the home of 'Squire Russell to see to it that the three men charged with the outrage be held over on good bond. They were peaceable and quiet, and they accomplished their purpose. Hull, Jackson and McKeen were bound over in the sum of $500 each on charges of abduction and highway robbery.

It is thought that a charge of criminal assault will also be made when the ife of Stills is found. Investigations have so far failed to bring the missing woman to light. Hull and Jackson were seen with her in the woods near Burtville Thursday morning. They claim to have sent her to Leeton with a young man named Birch Winfrey, with instructions to put her in care of a liveryman there by the name of Woods, who was to have taken her home to Warsaw. Investigations have developed that she has five married sisters, all of whom are poor but respectable.

Stills is sick in bed and seems distracted over his trouble. He denies indignantly the stories told about his wife by the three defendants and one or two young men of Windsor. He says his wife is just a little strip of a girl only 16 years old, and as pure and virtuous as any woman who ever lived. He has sent to Warsaw for witnesses to prove her character. In addition to the facts already brought out Stills' story develops that after the two men had come back and robbed him and again gone away one of them came back again to the wagon where he was lying and asked him if he was going to have them arrested.

Stills says he told him no, that he had no money and no friends and that all he wanted was his wife. To this the man said I just thought if you were going to have us pulled I'd take my knife and finish you while I am here. Stills tells a straightforward story, making no reservations and no hesitations. Everyone who has heard his story believes it. Then, too, he is corroborated in so many statements by farmers and their families living on the road along which the men passed and on which the crime took place.

Mrs. Geo. Bowers heard a woman screaming 'Let me go let me get in my own seat." She also heard men cursing and yelling and another man's voice who seemed to be pleading them to stop doing something At the next house north George Cooper heard a pistol shot and a woman's screams. Farmer Wiley heard a woman crying and shriek ing "Oh, God, save me! Help! and men cursing and yelling and singing. Mrs.

Lucinda Swope heard a nmmsn rrvincr and screaming" for 11 utiiu helo as a buggy drove rapidly past her place. W. T. Gibson, one of the prominent farmers in the coun tf heard the woman screaming and crying down the road, a quarter of a mile away, ana men uie woman voice was drowned by men voices singing and yelling. Others beard the woman "crying out for help.

The three boys have very wealthy nnprrions. Thev acknowledge liflvinor taken the pistol and $1.00 away from Stills, but say they belonged to his wife and she sent offr if Of course, the Kahr Bloess 110 WEST SECOND. Dry Goods, Clothing and Groceries. Produce Wanted. WINDOW DISPLAY.

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The meeting was a stormy one, and it was determined to push the case, and if the prisoners were guilty they should be punished despite any and all efforts to shield them. Mrs. Stills was sent for and re turned to the charge of her husband and mother, her husband, in company with Constable Hudson, taking her to Knobnoster. A Warrensburg dispatch says: Prosecuting Attorney Bradley arrived home late tonight from Sutherland, where the preliminary trial of Hull, Jackson and McKeehan for the abduction of Andy Stills' wife was to have been held. Mr.

Bradley went with the de termination of dismissing the case, but several hundred citizens assembled and would not permit it. Many ladies were present, who allege that Mrs. Stills is under the influence of drug and cannot give a coherent story ot the crime. Bradley is much worried, and refuses to be interviewed. He still adheres to his intention of dismissing the case, but indignant citizens are on guard and demand a full investigation.

The sentiment in this city is that Bradley has been imposed upon and that justice demands a vigorous prosecution. The case against Stills for shooting at liis wife's abductors was dismissed and Hull and his companions will have their hearing Monday. If the indignation continues to spread serious trouble may ensue. W. W.

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