The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-14
SEEK Yer
OF kEET BOY
FOR MURDER
Warrant Charges Dick Garter
With Killing Kidnapers' Vic
tim as Father Sought
to Pay Ransom.
SAY WOMAN WROTE NOTES
Officials secrete Six Suspects.
Outside Springfield and Prom
Use More Arrests-Aleged
Leaders Near Death.

Leaders Near Death.
Springfield, No., June PA warrant
charging first degree murder has been
issued against a man named Dick Car
Ter, Paul ODay, county prosecutor. an
nounced today. A man of this name
who was being held at Hutchinson
kan., has been released as he was not
the one sought. The warrant is the
first formal charge made against any
one IN connection with the kidnapping.
Hutchinson, Kan, June l2.-Richard
carter, who was arrested here yester-
DAY at the request of Springfield, auth
critics in connection with the Keet kid
haplng case, was released today. Car
ter is said to have proven that he had
not been IN Missouri for more than 10
months and could not have been con-
nected with the case.
Thousands followed the little white
casket to the grave today.
Meanwhile, CletuS Adams and Claude
P1ersol, two of the six alleged abductor-
plotters, arc being held in jail at Kansas
CltN, where they were rushed FOR safe
eepln after being etaken from the
sher1ff and subjected to a third degree'
by leaders of a posse, who threatened
the prisoners with death.
Having failed to obtain a confession,
however, the two were returned to the
sheriff, unframed.
Father Gives Up Letters.
The other prisoners-Taylor Adams,
his wife and one son, and Sam McGin.
mis-, We're understood still to be held at
Stockton, Mo. The %coroner's inques
n the baby's death will be held We'd
nesday.
The letters SEN to Mr.. Keet after the
baby's kidnapping the night of May 80,
We're made available today. The first
letter, received the day after Lloyd was
stolen and which sent the father on a
wild drive over almost impassable
Ozark hill roads, instructed him mi
nutely as to the composition Of the
$4,000 he was to q owe for the return
of the infant, and added.
hreatens Other Deaths.
I'VE sure got your kid. Don't say
anything to the police or put it in-tle
papers. There are three of us and we
want $4,000 apiece, 50 it will cost you
$4,000 (siN thousand) to get him. We
got another one picked out so if we
don't get this from you we can tell
them to see what we did to yours"
Then followed Instructions as to
the placing of a light in a building
that would notify the %kidnapers their
instructions We're being complied with,
and a description of the route to be fol
lowed. The letter concluded:
w are going to feed him and be
SoOo " lAhl liiIll ~ tGoI L. We u =
get this you will have a tough looking
kid. We got lots Of milk; kid is all
right"
Other Letters Sent.
The second letter arrived at the Keet
home the next morning. 1t declared
When we seen what was Up on the
road we come in" adding that it was
known the Instructions of the first let
ter had been revealed to outsiders.
The third letter was received on the
night set for the second ride. 1t mere
ly had to do With the route to be taken.
Both drives laid out carried past the
old Crenshaw home, where the baby's
body was found floating in a we'll. Of
fcers believe that possibly the baby
vas !ser. = Tic. csss@ ;siissii ;;ee555;saa abb
tors became frightened.
All the letters were written, it was
said, in g good hand apparently femi-
nine, with attempts to disguise by mis-
pelling and lack of punctuation.
Piersors Nerve Saves Them.
Adams and Piersol owe their lives to
the iron nerve Of the latter. The sheriff
apparently made NO resistance to lhav-
ing his prisoners taken from him when
the Springfield man promised ION their
word of honor no harm would be done
the suspects unless they confessed to
completely in the baby's death.
"a rope was placed around PiersoPs
neck and the end thrown over a tree
limb. He was assured that he was
about to die whether guilty or not"
only replied that he hoped you will
tell my parents I had nothing to do
with the abduction or death of the
Keet baby
After their return to the sheriff's
custody the two prisoners We're taken to
Kansas City. E
Mother, Grandmother III.
There were reports today that addf-
tional arrests were expected shortly in
the alleged abduction plots that had to-
10 with the kidnapping Of C. A. Clement,
Springfield jeweler; a Springfield baby
a st. Louis munitions
turer, but they lacked confirmation.
The condition OF Mrs. Keet, who was
Frustrated by the news Of her sons.
murder, wa reported to have improved
today. Mrs. Keet, ST., the child's grand
mother. and reported to be one OF
southern Missouri's wealthiest resi-
dents, was said to be still suffering
from shock as a result OF the tragedy.
NOT IN KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, Mo-, June 12.-County
Marshal Hoffman denied today that
sCletus Adams and Claude Piersol were
in the jackson county Jail here. Sher-
III Webb arrived at Kansas City yes
terday, but would say nothing concerns
ing the two prisoners.
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