Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-14
SCENE OF KEET
HUNT TO SHIFT
After Questioning Four Tulsa
Men Prosecutor Goes to
Oklahoma City.
SECRECY ENSHR0UDS VISIT
For Second Time in Week
Investigator Confers With
Local Police.

From Tulsa the hunt for the mur-
derers of Baby Keet shifted to Okla
homa City when Paul O'Day, prose
cutting attorney of Springfield, Mo-,
following the arrest and questioning
of three men early last night, told
newspapermen that he had nothing
to say for publication at this time
other than he had obtained informa-
tion that turned the hunt from Tulsa
to oklahoma City, where he expect
ed 10 locate at least one person from
whom he hoped to gain data that
would materially aid him in running
down the men that murdered the
keet infant while the father traversed
the county with the money demanded
by the kldnapers for the safe return
of the child.
Within few hours after O'Day's
arrival in Tulsa local detectives had
arrested j. l.. McMachin, taxicab
driver whom circumstantial evidence
obtained in Missouri seemed to iden-
tify as one who had been connected
with the kidnapping and the subse-
quent murder or that he had been
given an opportunity to join the men
who perpetrated the crime that has
stirred the nation.
McMachin Is Released.
After undergoing vigorous ex-
animation, instigated by O'Day and
members of the Tulsa county attor-
neys' office, without wavering and
relating a story that proved "A sue
cessful alibi. his release was ordered
by O'Day, who stated there was no
developments that would permit fur
ther detention of McMachin.
Mystery surrounds the identity of
the other three men who were ar
rested by city detectives between sun
set and 10 o'clock last evening. No
formal charge was placed against
them and they were not incarcerated
In the city Jail. according to local po-
lice officers. who stated the men were
turned over to Prosecutor O'Day.
They we're questioned in the office
of County Attorney George Reeves
and while no official confirmation
could be gained, 1t was rumored dur
ing the night that the men gave depo-
sitions that are expected to lend ma
terial aid to the Missouri authorities
In their search.
O'Day Rcticcnt.
No inkling of the nature of the
dispositions or the part the three men
are to play in the case was diNulged
by O'Day, who refused to affirm or
deny the rumor that he had taken
their dispositions. outside of reply
ing that he had nothing for publica-
tion at this time he assumed an eX-
trcmcly reticent attitude.
Utmost caution market the pro-
cedure of the young prosecuting at
torney, who has labored indefatiga
bly, in an effort to ferret out the
men who resorted to kidnapping to
aid their financial conditions and
who, fearing detection and subse-
quent penal servitude. smothered the
infant in blanket, dropping the
bundle into an abandoned well, thus
hoping to avoid arrest.
When asked his opinion of the
guilt or innocence of the men now
being held at the Missouri peniten-
tiary and who were for a time in
the hands of a mob, O'Day refused
to comment. 1t is believed. how
ever, that his trip to Tulsa was oc-
casioned by the belief that informa-
tion could be gained that would have
considerable bearing upon the men
now being held.
Oklahoma City Next.
At oklahoma City only one man
is expected to be located that can
in any manner aid the search. He
was in Tulsa the latter part of last
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