The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-11
YOUTH CHARGED

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removed from Springfield for another
inouisition such as was held at Suck
tor. Saturday night Word from Stock
ton this morning was that Taylor Ad-
ans, Mrs. Adams, Make Adams anu
Sam McGinnis are still in jail there
Ready to Die Game.
sprinefeld's vigiIantes failed in their
mission early Sunday morning The
lynching that the Missouri mob clam
ored for did not materialize and the
confession that the grim and deter
mined men sought to ring from the
lips of PiersoI was not forthcoming
Three times they strung the smiling
suspect to an oak tree outside of
Stockton and two times he came down
with the same smile on his lips
You're going to kill me any way.
SO you might as well have it over
with he said They frightened the
rope the third time
ANY final MESSAGE" asked the
leader of the mob as he slapped Pier
sol roughly in the face
Just tell the old folk back in
Springfield that their boy knew moth
ing about the Keet baby" he an
swered, the smile still playing about
his lips
Unconscious When Cut Down
The rope frightened and far as the
prisoner was concerned he had died"
game. When they cut him down he
was unconscious
Cletus Adams. a spectator of the
ordeal Piersol was subjected to, COM
pleteIy lost his nerve Shrieking his
innocence, he pleaded with the mob
for mercy.
The failure to force a statement
from Piersol had dampened the ardor
of the vigilantes and doubt crept into
the minds of some
I'VE never intended to hang him.
it was his iron nerve that cowed the
mob
"Piersol played a lone hand against
the gang-and won." they say.
Mob Waiting in Springfield.
| Back at Springfield the reception
committee, with the site prepared,
waited hours for the return of the
! flying squadron" of eighteen high
powered cars that had taken up the
1 pursuit.
| Telephone messages. bulletined at
mob headquarters" kept the thou
sands that jammed the streets in con-
slant excitement Reports that the
captors and their prisoners were OF
| their way back together with remains
kept the mob spirit alive.
The first gray streaks of dawn were
| appearing when the advance guard OF
the vigila ntes arrived bearing news OF
their disposition of the suspects. The
mob silently disintegrated. many ap-
parently glad that no blooC had been
| spilled
Two In Kansas City jail.
! Kansas City, June 11-Confirma-
ton of the report that Cletus Adams
and CLAUDE Piersol. two OF the six al
legged abduction plotters from Spring
field had been brought to the county
/ Jail here, was obtained today from
| Judge Arch A. Johnson of the Spring
field court of appeals who, with 9TH
er officials of Springfield was here tc
| question the two further The other
prisoners-Taylor Adams, his wife and
one son ard Sam McGinnis-were I'M
/ derstood still to be held at Stockton
! Mo. the little town where a mob early
yesterday threatened the lives of the
six suspects in an unsuccessful effort
to make them confess that they hat
| kidnapped and killed little Lloyd Eeet
Authorities here last night and early
| today denied emphatically that Adams
| and Piersol had been brought here
| saying the two men were to be taker
to jefferson City.