Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-12
ALL SPRINGFIELD MOURNs
At BABY KEET'S FUNERAL
Thousands Give Expressions OF SYM
pathy for Bercaved Family of
Murdered Infant.
CONDITIONS IN CITY NORMAL
Six Persons Still Held by Authorities
In Connection With Child's Abduc-
tion-Two OF Them Taken to Kan
sas City for Safe-Kccping.


SPRINGFIELD. MO, June u-Wbile
authorities investigating the abduction
and murder of Baby Lloyd Kect, whose
body was found in an old we'll near
Springfield On Saturday, continued i'm
the dark to-day as to the actual per-
pctrators OF III" crime, thousands gave
expression TO their sympathy for the
bc"eavcd family. AS the little white
TO st. Paurs Church for the funeral
ceremony. crowds stood in the streets
with barred heads.
Tro home of j. Holland IIee,, wealthy
banker. father Of the murdered baby,
was hl:ed to-day with flowers sent even
by persons unknown to the family.
Announcement was made to-day
that charge of murder In the first
degree in connection with the Kect case
had been preferred in Justice Court
here on Saturday night agains, Dick
Carter. of Springfield. Word was re-
ceived later. however, that Carter. who
had been taken in custody at Hutch
inson. Kans.. had been released upon
giving proof that he had not been in
Missouri for more than a year.
Authorities still held in connection
with the alleged abduction plots the
six persons whom Sheriff Webb rushed
out of the city Saturday after the find
ing Of Lloyd's body Four are in Jail
at Stockton, Mo. and two at Kansas
City.
Conditions in this city were practi-
cally normal to-day after thirty-six
hours Of intense excitement due TO
the finding on Saturday of the body Of
Baby kcet. who was kidnapcd ten
days ago. and the announced intention
six prisoners. one woman. held in
duction plots unearthed here.
PRISONERS SAFE IN JAIL.
OF OTHER COUNTIES
The prisoners. not connected officially
by the authorities with the kidnapping
and death of the kcct child. to-day
were thought TO be safe in the jails
of other counties, four-Mr. and Mrs
Taylor Adams. Make Adams and Sam
Stockton. and the where
abouts of the remaining two-Claude
Piersol. and Cletus Adams-unknown.
Near Humansville. Sheriff Webb and
his party trying to spirit the prisoners
to safety were ovcrtakcn on Sunday
by few men from Spring
field. who had travelled in motor cars,
and Piersol and Cletus Adams were
subjected TO grillinE that is said TO
have left them with their lives only as
Il result of the iron nerve of PiersoI
A rope was placed around Picrsors
neck and the end thrown over limb.
He was assured that he was about to
die, whether guilty or not" but only
replied that he hoped you will tell
my parents I had nothing 10 do with
the abduction or death OF the keet
baby"
Piersol and Adams after their return
to the sherff's custody were spirited
away to the northward, apparently in
an effort TO get them to the State
Penitentiary at jefferson City, or the
Kansas City Jail.
There also were reports Of addi-
tional arrests in the alleged abduction
plots that had TO do with the kidnapping
OF c. a. Clement. Springfield jcwelcr:
Springfield baby, and a ST. Louis mu-
milton manufacturer. but they lacked
confirmation
The coroner's inquest into the baby's
death. originally set for to-day. has
been postponed until Wednesday,
LETTERS SENT TO MIR. KEET
ARE MADE AVAILABLE
The letters sent to Mr.. Keet after the
baby's kidnapping the night of May 30.
u ere made available to-day. While
'hc context of the first letter had be-
come generally known. Mr.. Keet. fol-
lowing tho abductors' instructions, had
Kept the last two letters secret. The
first letter. received the day after Lloyd
was stolen. and which sent the father
on drive over the Ozark hills. in
structed him minutely as to the COM
position of the $4,000 he was TO pay