The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-26
Bought Candy for Her, He Tells
County Officers.
DON'T LET THE CROWD GET me-!
Bissell Begged the Officers for
Protection in Topeka.
Witness Declares He Saws This
Man Watching Fire.

ate this afternoon Sheriff
Kicnc asked County Attorney
AtchisOn to secure warrant Tor
maiIy charging Fred Bisscll with
the murder of Edna Dinsmore.
The warrant will be secured and
viii bc served on Eissell who is
confined in the Douglass county
jail ut Lawrence.
Tic request fOr the warrant fol-
lowed the finding of several
pieces of important evidence by
Sheriff Kiene's fOrrc. The iodine
bottle found i'm an upstairs room
AZ the Vacant house where the
outrage was committed was lden-
titled by a clerk ut Pope's drug
store. He recalled having soio
il To BisscH. He remembered inc
bottle for the reason that Wncn
HiSsfsII brought IL in to be filled
with fohinc il had tho name OF
another drug on the label ana nc
wrote tho name iodine over inc
other. name. The label shows that
pldiu.y.
unI,cr room the wrapping from
The bottle of Naselinc whicn was
fouud in the house yesterday. Inc
NvrapDcr has the cost mark Oh tiie
Oxford drug store written upon II.
However. no one at the druG 9torS
rcy,cmEcrs having sold the vase
line. .--.,o,,o,, ,g
,1,s. XxaTr,nt this afternoon Bissch
Viu not he brought back to 10
prka immediately.
An immediate confession from
Fred Bissell that he maltreated
and murdered little nine-year-old
Edna Dinsmore, then set fire to
the vacant house to hide his
crime, would not surprise l.. L..
Kiene. sheriff, nor Harvey Par
sons, chief of police.
During a lonely automobile
ride last night when Bissell was
taken to Lawrence for safe keep
ing he made a partial confession:
He admitted following the girl
away from the Colonial bakery
where she left her mother at
S:15: he admitted walking down
Kansas avenue and buying candy
for her and with walking west
on Fifth street as far as Topeka
avenue in her company. Far
ther than that he refused to go
in his confession.
Sheriff Kiene and w. E. At
Gibson, county attorney, left To-
peka Just before noon and the
general impression around the
court house was that they went
to Lawrence to try to wiring a
confession out of Bissell.
Make Out Complaint.
Il think" said Kiene before he left.
that I will make complaint against
BisseH some time today. l am salts
fled he is the right man. We have
the goods on him and are getting more
evidence all the time"
The minute Sheriff Kiene makes a
complaint a warrant will be issued for
Bissell." said County Attorney Atchi-
son. who assisted in the inquisition
yesterday afternoon. My belief is
that the officers have the guilty man..
Last night when the authorities
gave it out that Bissell had been re-
leased he was taken out of window
IN the court room at the police station
and hurried through the back yard to
the county Jail. There he was placed
i'm cell farthest removed from the
doors.
He Was Afraid of Crowd.
Bisseil glanced out of window and
saw the crowd of automobiles and peo-
pie around the police station.
rs it as serious as that?" he asked
Of Deputy Sheriff HiXon
Its "A darned sight more serious
than that" was the reply.
Bissel was shaking like a man with