The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-02
LYNCHING BEE
BUzzES LOUDLY
People Are Worked up Over kidnap.
ing Case and itching to Lay
Hands on Guilty
Ones.
RUMoRs ARE NUMEROUS
1t is Said That When Arrests Are
Made, There viii be a Big
Sensation
Over it.

EAST LAS VEGAS, n. NJ. April L.
Reports received here late tonight
from posses pursuing the four men
supposed to have been the kidnapers
OF little Waldo Rogers. and from Cap
tain Fornoff of the territorial mount
ed police indicate that three and pos
sibly four men will be arrested before
morning charged with holding the
child for a $4,000 ransom 1t is
known that Capt. Fornoff, who is con
ducting the investigation of the kid
naping, and who arrived here last
night, has not been mile out Of
the city all day While Fornoff will
not admit that important arrests are
pending, he will not deny it and se9-
eral of his assistants intimate that
when the arrests come they will prove
sensational. These ntimations have
caused general belief that all the
persons chiefly concerned are resi-
dents of Las Vegas or live near here,
Many profess to have information
that at least one woman was con
cerned in the abduction and that she
cared for little Waldo during the
period lie was held prisoner, and be-
fore he was restored to his uncle in
mountain fastness near Kearney 5
/ GAP.
Rumors that important arrests had
4 been made in connection with the
case We're rife here all day. but were
1 denied by Fornoff and the other
I llsosmted police. One was that Thomas
I Breene. ranchmaD, had been taken
/ into custody and spirited out Of
/ town 10 prevent violence by the angry
i citizens, Another was that man had
! been seen riding near the spot where
i the ransom was paid, Thursday mid
night, and had been taken into Gus
i tody. The arrests by Sheriff Romero
4 of two alleged horse thieves late this
afternoon Immediately started the re-
I port that the liidnapers had been ar
+ rested.
These conflicting reports have serT-
ed further to inflame the public mind
charged with the crime, it will be
difficult to restrain the people OF
East Las Vegas
Meanwhile the pursuit of the men
continues 1t is now thought, however
that these men will get away into the
bad lands country" This section Is
an ideal spot for concealment and il
would be difficult to capture the alb
ductors, once they reach it in safety.
Nearly all of the posses which hav,
been searching for the kidnapers, ex
cepting the cowboy posse in the north
eastern part of the state, reported t
Captain Fornoff tonight that they ha,
found no clew and would abandon tn
search.
The territorial police officers ar
!, said to have located the sourc
through which the kidnapers secure
the key to the Rogers home enablin
them 10 enter the house last Wednes
day night without apprehension, The
decline to make any statement regarc
: ing their information, however,
!. A T. Rogers. father of the kidnape
. boy, said tonight that, in spite OF th
a 1000 reward he had offered for tn
/ capture Of the kidnapers, he had n
+ information. Rogers has been OF
:. with posses day and night since hi
g son was returned and tonight was o
the verge Of collapse.
8 1t was stated tonight that the al
a thorities had abandoned the theor
s that Dennis Hart, who recently e
3 capped from the jail at Albuquerqu
s. with other prisoners, WAS the rim
/ leader of the abductors.
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