Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-12

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ductors Of Lloyd Keet. Reports were
current that additional arrests were
about to be made but they could not
be verified. Some Of the officials left
here ,mysteriously on missions whAch
took them to unknown points in the
middle west. There II no exact in
formation al to their destination.
The authorities apparently have OBJ
tanned all the Information poasfote
from Adams and P1ersol, two men held
in Jail at Kansas City. Judge john
son returned today from Kansas City.
where yesterday he spent several
hours questioning the pair. Coroner
Paxton announced he had summoned
only six witnesses for sthe inquest,
which is to be held tomorrow. Four
OF them are the men who. found
the body Of the baby in the well on
the Crenshaw farm.
Sheriff Sure Of Guilt
Sheriff Webb expressed himself as
convinced that Piersol was a party to
the kidnapping and murder.
"Piersol," Sheriff Webb said, over
heard my conversation with the vigil
lantes at Stockton when they promised
me they would not lynch him II they
failed to wiring q confession Of guilt
from him. That's the reason he stead
fastly declared his innocence every
time he was let to the ground aftel
being strung up three times. Pieeso
knew that his only hope was to deny
his guilt He knew that II he con-
fessed he would be killed"
Mr.. Warner today told the story, Of
his visit to the Crenshaw place with
Mr.. Toothman q few days after thu
KIDNAPPING.
"Toothman and I went to the old
house with no idea Of searching fol
the kidnapers," he said. The house
has the reputation Of being haunted
and we were impelled by casual
curiosity to look It over. We we're able
to see into one Of the downstatrl
rooms thru q window, against which
the inner curtain hung awry.
"Toothman took the first peep. He
started back. There's man in there,
he said. You must have seen ghost.
I told him banteringly. To make sure
we knocked at the back door. The
knock echoed thru the deserted rooms
Then we heard footsteps and q mar
1erked open the door.
"What do you want? he asked
gruffly. We told him we wanted Il
apologize for peering in at the window
as we did not know anybody was liv-
Ing at the house.
.'That's all right he said and shu
the door.
1The man we saw thru the crack o.
the window blind was not the sam,
man who came to the door. OF that
am positive. II Carter 10 the same mar
I can identity him"
Four Prisoners Moved.
Claude Pier1bl and C1ethus Adams
who were spirited out OF Stockton b!
deputies OF Sheriff Webb, were plecel
IN the Jail at Kansas City last night
The other four prisoners who wer'
driven in automobiles out Of Spring
field to avoid q mob have been removed
from the stockton jail. Where the,
have been taken Is not known. hut II 4
believed they have been placed In th'
iail Of some town near the Kansas line
City o. ths Plateau.
The tity OF Springfield ID in the hear
OF what Is known IN Harold Bell Wtish
fiction a. the Ozark mountains. Til,
Ozark region Is nothing more than ,
plateau with an elevation OF l400 feet
Springfield, according to the drum
mers, IL the queen city Of the osarkl
For 100 miles in every direction I
Rprinxfields trade territory and the boy