The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-06-14
ElDAkP SUSPECT
DENIES CRIME
Man Accused Of Killing Baby Keet
Escapes Hanging.
PIERsoL FEELS THE MOOSE
Prisoner Taken From Sheriff and
Strung Up Until "He Was Black
In the Face"-Returned to
Jail by Crowd.
HISTORY OF THE CRIME.

How case developed from time baby
was stolen until body was found in
abandoned we'll on old farm:
MAY 30.--Lloyd Keet, fourteen months
old, stolen from residence of father,
]. Holland Keet, supposedly through
open window. Taken away while
nurse slept close by.
MAY 31.-Father received demand for
ransom and was instructed how to
deposit money In lonely spot, making
trip in automobile at night and alone,
with lights burning In certain man.
ner.
JUNE Father returned from all
night trip through storms in the
Ozarks.
JUNE 4.-Father said to have received
second note, which is reported to
have raised the amount demanded to
$4,000 and to have warned him the
child must be recovered "the next
night or never"
JUNE 5.-Mr. Keet made another
night trip, but saw nothing of kid
napers. This is the night the child
is supposed to have been slain.
JUNE 6.-Taylor Adams and wife,
Allie, and their two sons arrested
with George Walker, Sam McGinnis,
Claude Piersol and another man.
Adams and wife confessed plot to
kidnap G. A. Clement, jeweler and
manufacturer, but denied guilt In
Keet case,
JUNE Body of Baby Neet found in
abandoned well. Prisoners taken
from Springfield after long automo.
bile chase by large posse Of citizens.
Springfield, Mo-, June 11.--Some-
where the alleged abduction plotters
held in competition with the kidnapping
and death of little Lloyd Keet, whose
body was found on Saturday, are safe
and unframed from the mob that early
In the day overlook them at Stockton
Mo-, 40 miles north of here, and en-.
deayored to wiring confession from
them.
The prisoners now in the hands OF
Sheriff Webb are Claude ]. Piersol
Taylor b. Adams, Cletus Adams. Max
inc Adams, Mrs. Allie Adams and San
McGinnis.
Springfield is still In the dark as tt
where the prisoners were taken. Foul
were reported currently to have beer
kept in the Jail at Stockton. Long
distance telephone calls from towns
surrounding Stockton, which was en-
tirely cut off from outside communi
elsewhere, possibly to Springfield.
PlersoI Feels Moose.
-Uel Murphy, deputy sheriff at Green
field about twenty miles from Stock
ton, was told by young man return
ing from Stockton that one of the pris
oners had been hung until ''he was
black i'm the face" in an unsuccessful
effort to make him confess. Murphy
reported that fact, over the long-dis
Etance telephone.
Reports are that the mob had placed
a rope around the neck of Piersol IL
an attempt to make him say that III
and others had been responsible fOl
the Keet tragedy, But Piersol, accord
ing to the reports, maintained his in
nocence and the may dispersed. tn,
prisoners were left unframed In tn,
safety of some little Ozark Jail.
Springfield has resumed it's norma
tranquil state, the mob that kept tn,
city at high tension at night having
dispersed about four o'clock In thu
morning.
Officials here say they have no In
formation to show that the prisoner.
'hsd anything to do with the Kee
baby's abduction and subsequent death