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Show BEFORE HER HUSBAND'S EYES. A Woman Outriurcd by Nep;ro $li00 Keward for the Urute's Capture. Eehalia., Mo., Feb. 26. The people of Sedalia have determined that the punishment punish-ment meted out by the people of Texar-kana Texar-kana to the negro ravisher is needed by a negro desoerado w ho startled the town with a series of crimes last night. About 'J o'clock he entered the house of a widow, Mary Moore, choked her into unconsciousness, unconscious-ness, stole a fuw valuables and escaped. A little later he stopped P. II. Buckley and Miss Mattio Gilker on the street with a drawn revolver. Miss Gilker tied. The negro pursued aud felled her to the ground with the butt end of his revolver. Buckley and the others coming up to them, he escaped. Half an hour later Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taylor, when on their way home from an cutertainment, were slopped on Broadway by the negro, w ho, at the point of a revolver, told them to hold up hands. Taylor obeyed, and, while the thief was going through his pockets, Mrs. Taylor slipped a diamond ring from her hand and threw it it Into the yard, and hid a diamond breastpin in her dress. The highway man I took a pair of diamond earrings from her ears, then, at the point of a revolver, he j marched the couple to a lonely spot, there be hound Taylor hand and foot, and, aflcr a desporate struggle, outraged Mrs. Taylor. He then released the couple. The police I are unable to find any trace of the desperado. desper-ado. A mass meeting was held at the opera house today, and a reward of (1506 for the capture of ihe negro was subscribed. The whole country hereabouts is aroused as it has not been for years. |