Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-10
Witness Tells Of Well Ex- tending from Cellar to
 Garret Of Mansion.
GO DEF T..NDANT TOLD
 OF NOTE TO KEET
Y stimong oi Physician :ndicatr, Child was Murdered or Permitted ta s,afse Before Body Was
 Thrown in fistrrn.

Marshfield. Mo-. Oct. 9-Toati- ,mony and evidence tending todiselose that Baby Lloyd Rect had ben kept interior of the deserted Crenshaw Imansion immediatel after having been kjdnaped from his home in Sprin@ficld was given today during the trial of Claude J. Piersol, an alleged kidnap- CT, in criminal court.
 The well extended from cellar to Carret, and formed according to Richard Crenshaw, witness, when ar opening for a circular staircase was walled in with brick At the bot tom of this cellar CT well was found parts of the infants garments The body of the baby was found in q cistern containing water on the Cren- shaw place several days after the kid napino on May 30.
 A physician testified that as no wat CT was found in tha lungs of the child 1t was evident either that the baby had died from exposure and starva ton or had been murdered before the body was thrown into the water, the temperature of which was half a de grae below freezing.
 Crenshaw, continuing his testimony declared that three months prior tt the abduction he had seen a group ot strange men in the yard of the Cren shaw farm and that he thought one ot them was Piersol. He added that ar electric sign on the top of dry goods store in Springfield, nearly 20 miles away, wasvisi ble from the top of the house. That sign was suggested as a signal to be used by J. Holland Keat 1 the father, to announce his departure 1 for the rendezvous with the ransom 1 demanded.
 Mrs. Rect, the mother of the child identified clothing found on the baby iii the well as that worn by her child and during exhibition of the articles she so nearly collapsed that the state attorney excused her from the stand
 Saw Men at Rect Home. George Walker, a motor car driver, told the jury he had seen two men standing beside an automobile in front of the Rect home at about the time of the disappearance. Walker told of/ a conversation he had with Cletus Ad- ans, under arrest in connection with kidnapping plots, on the Friday night after the abduction He said he ask ed Adams if there was any news about the Rect baby, and Adams re- piled:
 "I'll tell you, if you say nothing about it. Holland Rect received an other letter today
 Testimony given by E. L. Stanford, vice president of the Holland Bank ing company, disclosed that no one except himself and the baby's father knew of the letter in question.
 The jury which is trying Piersol is composed entirely of farmers. All except two of the men are married and have children
 Says Piersol Admitted Lying.
 : In his opening statement Prosecu- tor O'Day declared Piersol had admit ted to Samuel Allender, chief of de tectives at St. Louis, and to Mr. O'Day that the elaborate story he told when first arrested that he was an agent of the German government was pure in- vention. The opening statement dealt with letter seized by the authorities when Taylor B. Adams, also accused of the Kidnapping, was arrested in Kansas City.
 "This remarkable letter." the prose- cutor continued, "was written by Piersol to Adams on the first day of June, two days after Lloyd Rect was kidnapped. The letter begins with this statement T made my deal that I was talking to you about before you left.
 "The contention of the state is that the initial sentence in this letter re- ferred to the abduction of baby Lloyd Rect.
 "Piersol wrote all the letters re- ceived bv Rect, the father of the kid naped baby, as will be proven by ex- perts in handwriting"
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