The Sentinel=record., 1917-06-12
DICK GARTER CHARGER
 WITH BABY'S MURDER
The Six Prisoners That the Mob Chased Saturday Night Are Landed in Prisons Outside of springfeld- Federal Agents Have T1<=1 a Hand tn the Gaze

Springfield, Mo, June II. Baby Lloyd Rect. whose lie was the tol ex. acted by abductors was buried here today. Thousands of Springfield cni. 2ens were at the St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal ch -"h. where the services
 were he'd m the corege that followed the littl white eesket to the Maple Park cemetery Grief for the stricken father agd agothsr had over- 1 come tho lust for vengeance that mani fested hself Saturday night and Sun. day night when ten thousand persons, paradng the uptown streets. demand
 ing the lives of six persons they sus- pected Of compiicity in the crime. J. Holland Rect, the father. and his wife bore up bravely through the or. deal of the afternoon. But Mrs. Rect gave evidence as she appeared at the church and at the cemetery of her sorrow and although she has recovered partially from the prostration caused 1 hy the finding Of the baby's body, she was under the guardianship of physl- clans during the funeral. The baby's grandmother, Mrs. Kate Rect, was un. able to attend; her condition was such that it was not dared to permit her to leave her sons home in Meadow mere Place
 The services were pronounced by the Rev. w. A. Mechanism and were simple. Several hymns were sung and prayers offered Then the body was taken to the cemetery.
 But the holding of the funeral did not stop the police and county authori- ties from going ahead with the eearch they are making for those who threw little Lloyd into the old well on the deserted Crenshaw farm eight miles southwest of here. At the same time floral tributes were pouring into the Rect home today in great numbers. Paul ODay, prosecuting attorney O this county, announced the issuance of 1 the first warrant charging direct com plicity in the death 1t named Dick Carter 26 years old, Springfield man, who was alleged in the warrant 10 haye strangled little Lloyd by wrap ping blankets around the body until the baby was smothered
 The warrant was issued late Satur- day night at the time the mob was demanding the lives of the six sus- poets charged with complcity in other | alleged abduction plots.
 Private detectives. federal agents and the police of more than one hun dred cities have been asked 10 aid in running down Carter.
 Otherwise the day was unmarked | by developments. Four of the six sus- poets whom a mob surrounded at
 Stockton. Mo. early yesterday and | threatened with death. still were in
 iail at the little Cedar county town
 Two others, C. J Piersol and Cletus
 Adams were in iaG at Kansas CEy,
 Mo- and were subjected to lengthy questioning, only continuation of the ! many that had gone before.
 l The departure Of federal agents
 from here to Kansas City was thought
 10 foreshadow developments in the
 case there Little has come to the
 surface to show the reason for the activity of the federal agents except
 alterations hlat lPiersol and hers of
 the prisoners had discussed the ahduc.
 ton ol St Louis muutiOn maker as pari of German plot to thw0rt tfof.
 flc to war materials Co the allies Al
 leasi one pefsou whose name has not
 yet been announced a beng sought hy authorities.