The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-26
HE IS THE man -KIENE
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suspicious actions of a man he had
just seen half a block away. He said
he had seen the man walk past the
corner three times without looking at
the crowd gathered around the house.
Carl Golf and 1 jumped into the
police car and followed the inform
ants directions. A block and a half
away we sighted Bissell walking along
the sidewalk. We picked him up and
brought him to the station and tried
to get some information out of him"
At that time Parsons gave Bissell
physical examination. He found moth
ing to indicate that he had committed
the assault and he turned him loose.
However, he discovered at that time
that Bissell was not normally devel-
oped.
State journal Reporters Got Him.
Later Parsons examined the girl, in
company with the coroner, and the
discovery was made that she was alb
normally developed. Bissell came into
Parsons mind again and he started
out to find him. While he was gone
Bissell was taken into the police sta
ton by two State Journal reporters
and Sheriff Kiene took him in charge.
Kiene was unable to get anything of
value from him and he turned him
loose the second time.
He Changed Shirts.
ton and found Bissen had been there
and left he started the search all over
and Bissell was picked up near the
Colonial bakery by Officer Wyatt. 1t
was following that that BisseH was
given the inquisition. Between the
time Bissell was first picked up and
the inquisition he had changed shirts.
The shirt he had first worn was found
in his room and when confronted
with it he denied it belonged to him.
Found in House.
The shirt had spots on it which the
coroner declared were made by tine
ture of iodine. A bottle of iodine was
found in the vacant house where the
girl was maltreated. The bottle of
vaseline found in the house at the
time of the fire is in the hands of
the sheriff and efforts are being made
to find where Bissell purchased it and
when, if it was his vaseline
Fear of Mob Violence.
Bissell was spirited out of Topeka
to Lawrence because of the fear on
the part of local officials that violence
would be done to him if it became
known that the officials thought he
was the guilty man.
Many Threats, Says Kienc.
L want to have this statement made
for me-" said Sheriff Kiene. IT
! thought it the best thing to do. con-
sldering the sentiment there was in
I NO"h AdSt mig TO get B1SSell out OF
town before it became known that we
mad the goods on him. There were
many threats made last night and the
feeling over the city was intense.
neard IL on the streets and in every
crowd. We didn't want ANYTHING to
happen to make the matter worse than
IL already was and took BisseH out of
town.
He'll Be Tried Here.
w men will he be brought back ?'
That depends upon circumstances
was the reply, Il think that in all
probability it will not be long He
would have to be tried in this county"
1t is barely possible that Bissell will
never be brought back to Topeka. In
case he confessed while in Jail at Law
renee he could very easily be brought
to some secret point inside the limits
OF shawnee county to meet a Judge of
the district court and be sentenced in
five minutes. In that event the proba-
bilities are that Bissell would be taken
directly to Lawrence, placed on a
train and transferred to the peniten-
tiarT.
In spite of the enormity of the
crime, if Bissell is the guilty man. the
worst man can get under the Kansas
laws is a life term in the penitentiary
\ dozen county officers and as many
police officers who have been working
on the case, expressed regret this
morning thaI capltaI punishment has
been abolished in Kansas.
aIobbcd Sure, Says Parsons.
IF he's the fellow said Harvey
Parsons, and l am satisfied he is,
there is no possible punishment too Sc
we're for him. l believe if he had keep
kept in Topeka last night and a mob
had stormed the Jail l would have re-
signed on the spot. l wouldn't want
to iniure a fellow citizen. no matter
what he might do to a fellow like l
believe this man is.
Keys In His Pocket.
When Bissen was searched at the
county Jail Deputy Sheriff Hixon re-
moved a bunch of skeleton keys from
his pockets There are ten keys on
the ring and every one of them is
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Story's Significance.
The story he told on the way to
Lawrence wipes the slate clear so far
as his alibi is concerned. In telling
the latter story he admitted the falsity
of the first story. Consequently the
selves about the particular hour or
minute he returned to the bakery.
They know he was at the police sta
ton before the time he states he re-
turned to the bakery.
Earl Dinsmore. father of the dead
girl, was at the police station this
morning in company with Mrs. Dins-
mores father. Dinsmore said Bissen
had known the girl for long time and
that he had learned that within the
last two months he has been pettins
her and making friends with her. He
says Bissell bought the child candy at