The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-26

turned to the Topeka institution again
in 1903 for stealing money and served
until 1904.
He ran away from home at the age
of sixteen years and went to Colorado.
According TO the state records he is a
sexual pervert.' He is a neurotic
and at times has marked disturbances
He served a term in the reforma-
tory at Hutchinson for attempting an
assault upon a seven-year-o girl at
Washington, Kan. According to in
formation received here he took the
her of clothing but was prevented
from accomplishing his purpose by the
arrival of persons in a wagon
On September is. 1912. he was sent
to the penitentiary from Jackson
county for crime against nature. His
sentence was for from one to five
years. He was previously sentenced
for similar length of time from Be
lott, KAN, on charge of receiving
stolen property. He had only been out
on parole for II months when he was
arrested for the second crime.
While serving his sentence he es-
capped from the brickyard at Lansing
but was only out for a few hours.
He has been arrested numerous
times in Kansas and once in Denver
Col, for vagrancy. He has no regu-
lar occupation. His most recent lob
was that of cook at the Frisbie ten
cent lunch house. He quit that posi-
ton about a week ago.
The Dog in the Case
Tighter grows the chain of cir
cumstantial evidence about Fred Bis
sell in connecting him with the muir
der of little Edna Dinsmore. Clews
received late today from reliable
sources. indicate that a dog answer
ing the description of one owned by
Bissell was seen west of Kansas ave-
nue. and following a man and a little
girl.
BisselIs own people told the State
Journal reporters that Fred rarely
went any place but that his dog ac-
companied him and now reports are
that the big brown dog has been seen
and recognized.
When BisseIl was taken in charge
by the officers the suggestion was
thrown out that his dog had been seen
in the vicinity of the crime. Bissell
seemed confused and startled at this
statement and kept digging his foot in
the ground but would not look up.
If the fact can be established that
his dog was seen in the vicinity of the
crime it will have material bearing
on the case for Bissell and his dog
were almost inseparable.
1t has been discovered that Edna
Dinsmore was an attendant at the
Wesleyan Methodist church.
Mrs. Dinsmore Better.
Mrs. Dinsmore. mother of the little
murder victim, was reported this aft
ernoon to be getting along very nicely.
She was completely unnerved by the
shock and was in a rather serious con-
dition for a time following the crime.
She was quiet this afternoon and her
condition is much improved
Lawrence Is Excited.
Sheriff William Cummins of Doug
las county, where Fred Bissell is con-
fined in the county jail. reported this
afternoon that feeling was running
high in Lawrence in regard to the
brutal murder of Edna Dinsmore.
Sheriff Cummins said, however, that
ne anticipated no trouble from people
of that district.
How a School Aided.
w G. Magaw, principal of Lincoln
school in an endeavor to assist the
authorities in definitely locating little
Edna Dinsmore some time after she
left home on that fatal Tuesday morn
ing made careful canvass of all the
rooms asking the children in each
room if they had seen her at any
place that morning but aside from q
few wild rumors nothing was obtained
in the way of clews that was of value
to the authorities.
He went from room to room and
asked the children to join in helping
the officers to locate little Edna after
she had left home and if any one of
them had scen Or heard Of any one
who had seen her with a strange man
to let him know but as the Dinsmores
had recently moved from one mar. Of
the city to another and little Edna
would necessarily nave to take dif-
a stranger to most of the residents who
lived along Monroe street his efforts
were of no avail.