Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-07
Involves Another Alleged Conspiracy, Said to be
 Part of German Plot.
TRIAL WILL BE HELD
 AT MARSHFIELD, MO.
F0urteen- -MOnths-Old Son of Spring. field Banker. Abducted in May, Was Found Dead Ten Days
 Jater-Fiye Arrests Made.

Marshfield, Mo-, Oct. 6.-Altho D menhave been summoned for possible service as jurors at the trial of Claude J. Piersol, alleged leader of the band accused of kidnapping Lloyd Rect and the attempted abudction of C. A.. Clements, it is feared that a jury to try Piersol will not be obtained promptly, when the case is called in circuit court here tomorrow.
 The abduction of Lloyd, the fourteen months-old son of J. Holland Rect. a ed in the babv's death. It involved another alleged Kidnapping conspiracy, said to have been part of German plot and the attempting lynching of one of the so-called conspirators in an effort to force him to confess that he was implicated in the Rect baby's dis appearance and death.
 While the childs parents were at- tending ball at the Springfield Coun- try club on the night of May 30, 1917, the baby was stolen from his crib in the family home. Ten days later the body was found, wrapped in an old black underskirt, at the bottom oI we'll at the Crenshaw mansion, which had been uninhabited for many years Meanwhile, friends, detectives. and the baby's father had secured the Ozark hills and had even visited pre- vous1y the old house in their search for the missing boy.
 No threats had been made to the Rect family, previous to the abduc- ton. but on the following morning, MT. Rect received note threatening muti- lation to the infant if ransom of $6,000 was not paid the following night. Mr. Rect endeavored to com ply but failed to meet the kidnapers. Various rewards were offered, but these were followed up by letter to the father that the ransom fee would be increased from S6,OOO to $1OOOO.
 Six days after the disappearance of the boy, Taylor Adams, his wife, Allie Adams, and his two sons, Maxie and Cletus, respectively IS and 20 years old. and Claude Piersol were ar rested. All vehemently denied any con nection with the Rect case but alleged statements of the prisoners told of plan to abduct c. A. Clement, a Springfield jeweler. and baby other than the Keet's child.
 German Agent Questioned.
 The German plot angle entered the case, according to the alleged state ment by Piersol, that man had en- ployed him to assist in kidnaping Clements. The man was said to have received orders from German agent in St. Louis and to have promised Piersol he might be called upon to kidnap persons in Canada and Mexico as we'll as in the United States.
 All efforts to shake the statements of the persons arrested were unsuc cessful. They maintained they had nothing to do with the Rect case.
 On June 3, however, party of citi- zens made a second and more tho rough search of the Crenshaw farm an dfound the body. A coroner's in- quest decided that the child had died from exposure and lack of proper nourishment.
 The excitement in Springfield be- county jail demanding that the pris oners who were being held there. be turned over to them that they might dVeIiSe Iiie DdDy uedCH.
 Sheriff Webb attempted to spirit his prisoners away in an automobile. The mob pursued and finally caught them at Stockton, Mo-, 28 miles north of Springfield where they took Piersol from the sheriff and went through all the movements of a lynching party, even to stringing the prisoner from a tree limb. Piersol held to his original story, and denied that he was respon sible for the Rect infants death. The mob surrendered him to the sheriff and the prisoners were lodged in the Stockton jail.
 Federal agents of the department of justice followed up the pro German angle of the case and arrested Dick Carter, of Springfield, who is being held on charge of being implicated Tn the Clements plot.
 Taylor Adams, Claude Piersol and Cletus Adams are charged with ab- auction. Charges of murder against them were dismissed. Allie Adams and Maxie Adams are charged with implication in the Clements conspir- acy.