The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-26
various times, that he gave her PENN,
and cookies.
Had Been Petting the Child

| ana COOKIES.
Had Been Petting the Child.
I'VE have verified all that" said
Chief Parsons. I'VE already know
that he has been leading up to this
for some time He has been petting
the child and making her believe that
he was sort of big brother"
The Bakery Incident.
The father of Mrs. Dinsmore told of
trouble Mrs. Dinsmore had with Bis
sell last week. He stated that Bissel.
was hanging around the bakery where
she worked and attempted to hug
! her. He said the woman was taking
some baking from an oven and that
| she struck BiSSell in the face with the
1 hot pan.
D you" he quoted BisseI as
saying, I've notion to go upstairs
and get my gun and shoot your brains
out"
! My daughter" he continued, told
me about the matter at the time.
told her there was no telling what that
| sort of a man would do and advised
her to go to the sheriff or county at
/ torney and make a complaint against
him. She replied that she would keep
her eye on him and she guessed she
could take care of herself
Mystery of an Address.
| Bissell also carried pair of
goggles with leather around the lenses
which would cover most of a mans
face. A patent medicine almanac he
carried had an address written upon
1.-THE address was 519 Taylor, half a
block from the old house where the
crime was committed. The sheriff s
office is looking up Bissells connec-
ton with that number. Another ad-
dress on Clay street was given and c2-
posite appears in lead pencil, girl S
name.
Following Bissel's partial confess
sion the officers have quit considering
the poor alibi he first offered. In
stead they are piecing together from
witnesses and circumstances story
with which they hope to break him
down and force him to comp etc a
confession The fact that Bissell ad-
mits he accompanied the girl TO
point within three blocks of the house
where the crime took place is looked
upon by officials as fatal to any line
of defense he may offer later.
His Old Story.
| Refore leaving Topeka for Lawrence
/ Bissel told this story of the manner
in which he spent yesterday forenoon:
He claimed he left the bakery at
Tenth and Monroe about nine O'Clock,
that he went to the Fifth avenue
hotel, from there to the postoffice
corner, on to the Rigby pool hall for
a package of tobacco, across the street
to a ten-cent store for a dimes worth
of candy, south on Kansas avenue TO
Tenth and east to the bakery.
Officers have followed up his route
and have been unable to find anyone
who admits having seen Bissell at the
places mentioned. He said he appned
for job as cook at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. No one there remembers it.
He said he bought tobacco at the
pool hall. No one remembers him
there. He could tell of no one he met
at the places he mentioned-no one
who knew him.
Negroes Identified Him.
According to Bissells confession he
passed the police station with the lit
tie girl before $3.50 o'clock yesterday
morning No one at the police station
nor at the sheriff's office appears to
have noticed the couple. but Mary
Bradshaw, colOred, a prisoner at the
city Jail told of seeing them before
Bissell confessed that much.
Last night after Bissell had been
taken away the Bradshaw woman
called the matron in and told her she
had seen man who looked just like
Bissell-she had seen Bissell in the
jail-pass the Jail on the south side
of the street about $3.50 o'clock yester-
day morning. When the officers re-
turned from Lawrence this morning
with Bissells partial confession it
verified Mary Bradshaw's story to the
letter.
Bissell has not yet been arrested.
that Bissell was not arrested any of
the three times he was picked up yes
terday. Sheriff Kiene says he was not
under arrest when he was taken to
Lawrence.
There's nothing unusual about
that" said County Attorney Atchison,
it is done every day. 1t is not neces-
sary to have a warrant while we are
making our investigation"
Club Women Will Help.
The Good Government club will as
sist in the funeral arrangements for
Edna Dinsmore, the little girl who was
murdered Tuesday. They give their
help as a memorial to the girl, and as
the only way they have of expressing
their sympathy for the child's family.
The arrangements will be in charge
of the girls father and mother, but
anyone who wishes to contribute to
the memorial fund, which will be
used in helping to defray the expenses,
can leave the money with Miss Win
CERT, who is in charge OF the glove
counter at the Pelletier store. The
terial, and the club thinks that the
children of the city would be inter
ested in contributing small amounts in
the little girls memory.
A. B. Whiting, president of the Mt
Hope Cemetery association. offered to
give the lot at Mt Hope for the childs
burial
His Criminal Record.
Bissell has been in trouble frequent
~ since he was a boy, according to
the records of the penitentiary, where
he served two terms. While still in
school he was taken to the Boys In
dustrial school north of Topeka for in
corrigibility. He was released in 1901
after serving two years. He was re-