Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-11
HANGMAN'S MOOSE.
FAILS IN PURPOSE.
Tho Strung to Tree Until
Black in Face, Keet Muir
derers Deny Their Guilt.
SUSPECTS ARE SAFE IN JAIL
Funeral of Murdered Baby
Will Be Held Today; 9th
ers to Be Arrested Soon.

SPRINGFIELD. Mo, June 10. -
The six alleged n-plotters ap-
parently We're safe tonight somewhere
in the Ozark hills north Of here.
Their guard overpowered by mob
of Springfield citizens at stockton,
Mo-, early 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 Kect. the wealthy bankers SON.
As result, Springfield was quiet
tonight, its streets almost deserted
and the talk of further violence
hushed after the wild fury OF last
night and this morning in which
thousands of persons crowded the
pubic square, awaiting solidly the
expected return and lynching of the
suspected six
Sheriff VIII Webb returned here
this afternoon and said tour of the
prisoners, including Mrs. Taylor
Adams. the woman member of the
alleged band, are in jail at stockton.
tie county seat of Cedar county 40
miles to the north. The two other
prisoneis-C. J. Piersol and Taylor
Adams, the womans husband - he
had sent northward under guard to-
ward a railroad line that would pro-
vide transportation to jefferson City
and the Missouri state penitentiary.
Reports that some of the prisoners
were being returned here were de-
neu.
Prisoners Are Saved.
Out OF the meager news that has
come back to Springfield from the
rough hills and sparseiy settled dis
tricts of Cedar, Polk and Cade coun-
ties, II has been possible to supply
the bare outlines of the triumphant
fight Tor the lives of Mrs. Adams
and her five companions. Appar-
emily. II was won by Piersol, who, au--
thorities say, has made damaging ad-
missions in the attempts to fix the
makeup of the alleged band, refused,
dcspite a rope around his neck, to
admit that any Vi the suspects were
concerned with the death of little
Lloyd.
Sheriff Webb and his deputies had
been overcome by the mob and the
six told they might expect death, re-
gardless of whether or not they con-
fessed. Piersol plead for his life.
maintaining. his innocence, and the
sheriff of Cedar county, during the
midst of the uproar, made stirring
appeal against violence. Then the
mob subsidized, but only after, accord
ing TO one report, having hung up
one Of the prisoners until "he was
black in the face
Continue Investigation.
That version, however. Sheriff
Webb denied.
Local and federal authorities here.
continuing their investigation Of the
disappearance of the Keet baby, have
made no change and have given no
indication of intending to alter the
warrants under which the-siX prison
ers were being held. The formal
charge is that of attempting to COM
nit a felony by planning abductons,
the alleged cases Ieferred-to to being
the plans maintained by authorities
to have been made to kidnap c. A.
Clement, wealthy jeweler here;
baby and st. Louis munitions
maker. The Keet case has not come
within the scope of the warrants.
The crowd that awaited on the
public square here this morning until
nearly 1 o'clock was composed Of
about ten thousand persons. 1t was
described to have been orderly and
no cases of disturbances were record
ed by the police. But citizens made
no efforts TO conceal their intentions.
IL was declared openly and without
subterfuge, that rough treatment
would be accorded the prisoners if
they were returned.
The day passed almost without in
cident. The street cars ran as usual
after having been ordered into the
barns and IL was expected the sa-
looms closed last night by the mayor,
would be permitted to reopen to-
morrow.
Mother Almost Dead.
The coroner's inquest into the Keet
baby case, set for tomorrow, today
was postponed until Wednesday
morning. Authorities said tonight
that additional revelations of their
inquiries would be made then and
that undoubtedly recommendation
would be made for the arrest of sew
eral persons against whom suspicious
have not been cast. The baby's fu-
neral will be held tomorrow afternoon
flom the family home in Meadow
mere place here. owing to the pros
tratlon of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Holland
Keet, the babys parents, and Mrs.
j. NJ. Keet, his grandmother, the fu-
neral will be private and only inti-
mate friends will attend.
Both the babys mtther and his
grandmother were under the care Of
physicians today and fears were eX-
pressed that they would not recover
The grandmother is one of the city s
wealthiest residents and volunteered
to furnish any amount of money
needed to ransom little Lloyd. She