The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-22
Governor Receives RequisitiOn
for Anna Schneider.
1t Is Declared Fake by TregO
officials.
COMES FROM ILLINOIS.
Grand Larceny Charge Against
Girl There.
More Light on Wakeeney Alb
ductiOn Affair.

The sensational Wakeeney abduc-
ton and assault case, in which H.
year-old girl named Anna Schneider
was mistreated by a number of young
men of the best families of Trego
county, has broken out again and this
time it is in the hands of the state Of
ficials.
Governor Stubbs has received from
the governor of Illinois requisition
for the arrest of the young girl stating
that she is wanted in Eureka, Wood
ford county, Illinois, for stealing a
stick pin and several other articles
from a family in that town. The
requisition has not been honored.
Today County Attorney John A.
Nelson is expected down from Wa
keeney and it is said that he will
claim to the state officials that the
requisition is a fake, that it is simply
plan of the friends of the young
men implicated to get the girl out of
the state on another charge and then
make their escape.
John Marshall, assistant attorney
general, has received a number of
letters from Trego county asking that
the state take up the matter at once
and cause the arrest and the convic-
ton of the young men. 1t is the gen.
eral sentiment both among the peO-
pie and the press of Trego and sur
rounding counties that the deed was
one of the most disgraceful in years
and every effort is being made to find
the guilty parties.
Charges Against Officers.
One of the letters to the governor
and the assistant attorney general
states that the officers of Trego
county were purposely neglectful in
their duty when the young men made
their escape after the seduction. The
letter states that the young men left
the county at the knowledge of the Of
f1cers and without any hindrance on
their part.
The whole case has excited much
talk around the state for the reason
that DR.. c. w. Jones, the father of
Bud" Je,nes, one of the young men
connected directly with the mistreat-
ment of the young girl, was at one
time member of the state legisla-
ture. He is one of the biggest men in
that part of the state and it is said
both through the county press and
the letters to state officials that DR..
Jones ran away with the boys, using
his automobile for the purpose 1t
| is also said that another of the young
men, Paul Keraus, is a relative of
Representative Keraus, who was a
member of the last legislature.
From what is known of the intend
| ed visit of the county attorney to the
governor this evening or tomorrow
morning it is said that these promi-
nent men of that county and their
friends instigated the Illinois requis-
ition for the purpose of getting the
Schneider girl out of the state
The story of the whole affair ir
| short is as follows: Anna Schneider
came to Wakeeney for the purpose
of visiting her brother who lived in
the country short distance from
there. Unable to get connection with
him by phone the day she arrived
she started toward a hotel and was
met and taken to an abandoned gar
age by five young men where she was
gagged, bound and mistreated in {
disgraceful manner. The officers anc
| citizens have organized into a repre-.
| sentative body to capture the youne
| men who, have skipped the country
and who have not been heard of since
| the girl related her story to people
| in the city. She was kidnapped at one
| time and taken to Salina where she
was found a week later. Indignation
meetings have been held all over the
county and the people are wrought
| up over the affair.
It is expected that a big delegation
of people will come to Topeka tonight
from Trego county for the purpose OF
influencing the governor to turn dowr
the requisition from Illinois.