Arizona republican., 1917-06-11
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo- June 10.-The six alleged abduction plotters were safe tonight somewhere in the Ozark hills north of here.
 Their guard overpowered by a mob of Springfield citizens at Stockton, Mo. ,earlv today and their lives threatened. they won freedom from harm for themselves by denying stoutly that they were guilty of the disappearance and death of little Lloyd Rect, the wealthy bankers son. AS a result, Springfield was quiet tonight it's streets almost deserted and the talk of further violence hushed after the wild fury of last night and this morn ing in which thousands of persons crowded the public square awaiting stolidly the expected return and lynch ing of the suspected six.
 Sheriff Will Webb was thought to- night to have four of his prisoners, in- cluding Mrs. Taylor Adams, the woman member of the alleged band, in jail at Stockton, 45 miles to the north. The other two prisoners, C. ]. Piersol and Taylor Adams. the woman's husband, were believed to be on the road north ward under guard, possibly of the sheriff himself, toward a railroad line that would provide transportation to
 
 penitentiary@
 Out of the meagae news that has come back to Springfield it has been possible to supply only the bare out lines of what transpired when the sheriff was overtaken by the mob. It IS reported that Piersol, despite a rope around his neck, refused to admit that any of the suspects were concerned with the death of little Lloyd. Sheriff Webb and his deputies had been over come by the mob and the six told they might expect death, regardless of whether or not they confessed. Piersol pleaded for his life, maintaining his innocence and the sheriff made stir ring appeal against violence. Then the mob subsided, but only after according to the report, having hung up one of the Irisohets until he was black in tb ? face"
 Paul O'Day, county prosecutor of Green county. after returning to Springfield today from Stockton, de- clared there was no truth to the state nents that ropes had been used or anyone hung by the mob. However, residents of Humansville. IS miles east of Stockton, and of Nevada, west of the little town, declared there was little question but that a rope had been
  rorts to communicate with Stockton to- night failed It is miles from a railroad and it's single telephone line was seem- Ingly out of commission.
 Sheriff Webb returned to Springfield this afternoon and tonight gave out statement confirming earlier reports that members of the mob had over taken him at Stockton and had threat ened one of the prisoners with death He said that fCar of the prisoners Mrs. Adams and her husband. her son AfaXie Adams, and Sam McGinnis. were in jail at Stockton, while Cletus Adams and C. J. Piersol, the other two, were being taken to Jefferson City
 The story of the events at Stockton as related by Webb was that eight prominent young men of Springfield '' unmasked and acquaintances of the sucrliI, had met him at Stockton and demanded that they be allowed to talk io his prisoners.
 They gave him their word of honor" that no harm would come to the pris- oners unless they confessed to the death of Little Lloyd Rect Cletus Adams and Piersol then were turned was taken to the lodge hall at Stock ton and questioned, but refused to confess, the sheriff said
 P1ersol then was escorted to the edge of town, rope placed around his neck and one end of it thrown over a tree. the story related, although no effort vas made to draw it tight.
 Plersol thought his day had come, '' Webb said, ana was ia cing death But Continued on Page Two)