The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03


alive without the aid of troops-maybe
not then.
Sweet Is Scared.
"Sweet knows the situation perfect
w 1t isn't necessary to tell MIN.
Why, you couldn't drive him out OF the
Dodge City Jail with a club. He knows
what would be waiting for him out
side. The people in Dodge city are
almost as deeply aroused as those IN
Grant county.
Just now the task before the Grant
county lawyer is to force from sweet
a confession of the crime.
There isn't a doubt in my mind
about his guilt" said Stubbs;
Then the lawyer explained why ne
had once faltered in his judgment
concerning the man under arrest II
was when dentist made statement
concerning the teeth prints on Miss
Byerss body.
"T found out since, though, that the
test was made for the bridge of the
mouth and not for the teeth them
Selves said Stubs. THAT would
make all the difference IN the Worlo:
The position of Miss Byers's body, at
the time she was attacked, would also
be a matter of concern and l dom
doubt for a minute now that Sweets
teeth were the ones that were embed
ded in the woman'S breast.
Orders HensOn's Release.
Before leaving for Topeka, Stubs
ordered the release of Clint Henson,
held in the Dodge City Jail for the
Byers killing.
we have tested every word of it, said
Stubs. HE couldn't possibly have
been closer than six miles to the
crime at the time it was committed
Stubs is convinced that the Hen
son family was away from home the
night of the day Miss Byers was as
saulted and killed. This fact, in his
judgment, gave Sweet a better op
Il
his crime against the young woman.
Tracks near where Miss ByerS
was dragged and near the course she
took on her way home from school,
are the tracks of Sweet" said the
Grant county attorney. I'VE fitted
Sweets shoes into the prints and they
fitted perfectly"
That is not all the evidence on
which Stubs relies in basing his
Judgment that Sweet committed the
crime. In Topeka this afternoon he
revealed the fact that the state has
developed several new clewS and that
if these are substantiated, the missing
links in the chain of circumstances
against Sweet will be supplied.
4 brought a suit of Sweets under
wear to Topeka with me-" said
spot on the underwear and I believe
that it is the blood of Nellie Byers.
Attacked From Behind.
again. There is no doubt that the
woman was attacked from behind.
She was struck on the head. In Hen
sons home we found billy which
was probably the instrument used"
There were no blood stains or evil
dences of hair on the instrument, but
a fresh mark indicated to Stubs that
it may have dropped on the sand and
stepped on during the scuffle.
IF the woman had not been attack
ed from behind, she would have whip
ped Sweet in a fair, open fight" the
lawyer declared.
An effort will be made to force a
confession from Sweet. In this man.
ner, Stubs hopes to avoid the neces-
Sity of a trial and the prospect of a
lynching.
sweet has admitted all of his for
mer offenSes and L believe he will con-
feSS to this one" said the prosecutor.
'But if a trial is really necessary, I
dread to think what may happen You
simply don't know the temper of those
people" County Attorney Stubs is a
nephew of W. r. Stubs, former gov
ernOr.