Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-24

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awaken suddenly and scream, went onto the mansion
roof to watch for signals from the town storm had
come up and it was raining laundering as can ony
in the Ozarks
could see the hills and roads for miles around when
the lightning flashed guess Kee was pretty inpatient
to answer our letter by bringing us the ransom money
promptly at o'clock the faint blaze of light from
the direction of the city which told me the sign on ton
OF the dry goods store building had been illuminated
l stood IN the rain and watched for an hour-from
~ ~ Ouf instructions to kcet were for him at
aU clock IN his along the we had mapped out
store sign remained aght during the whole hour and
az ~ CLOCK the other sign hadn't flashed, so Riley
carter Taylor Adams and Jess Gully, one of the others
VINO had come over to the Crenshaw house with US from
she cave went out to meet Keet
at 10 80 clock the girl came onto the roof TO ok me
II everything seemed all right She said the baby was
sun asleep When she went down stairs she took my
coat again and wrapped it around the baby to protect i
from the rain Riley and the others should get the ran
som safely and back the house to get the child
ana ,eave 1t at the roadside for its father We had de-
cded mot to hold keet for further ransom as we at first
planned, but to let him have the baby if he obcyed p
structionS W. "
Word had spread Springfield that Keet had received
letter from the knappers and mystc,ouslv the rmor
went abroad that keet to attempt that night to get
,ou COMMUNICATION with u.s. More than five thousand
hountalnees and farmers congregated in the town dur
1s t,e oay almost every one of them with shotgun
pistol or at least club The hardware stores sold out
ther supply of rope during the day
keet pleaded with his friends not to follow him when
ne started out, at 10 o'clock in his car with red obe
III one OF the lamps His friends would not listen to him
When heets car turned off into the dark road that
ea into the hills of other automobiles each filled
m, armed, determined men, noselessly took the trail
me man we had stationed the kect home crossed
tne Guy hurrledly and sgnalcd the man at the biz,
ecFlc sign just as Rileys girl had gone down stairs
rom ule roof, where Watching to wrap nv coat
the BABY, IN preparation for it's return to the
"'ner saw the sign in the city flashed three times
went at once to where Riley and the others had sta
t1oleo themselves to intercept Kcet and warned them
we renamed hidden, however until Kect's car passed
aVeling slowly its red signal light casting it's dim glow
through the rain. l caught glimpse Of his face rs he
passed lie was pcerng anxiousy into the darkness on
enher side OF the Road. He CHASTITY white never
Sd" lace IN which suffering so wildly EXPRESSED
few hundred feet behind the fathers car came those
u MS trends They followed Keet until he realized that
we must have been warned that he not come out alone
ana returned to his home empty-handcd
with Carter, Riley, Adams and Gully returntd 10
me orenShaw mansion about midnight. The baby still
sept. The girl said it had not stirred We began to
tar that perhaps the drop Of auanum given it bv the
girl was too much and that it would die without awaken
ing. TINS possibility upset us that we SAT huddlcd
ABOUT the CRIB watching the little chap silently until al
most dawn. ~ "
We were relieved when Lloyd suddenly oncnea bs
eyes ana looked out OF the crib He spied me first
ana smiled and lifted his little hands as if he wanted
10 De taken up in my Every one sighed with relief
When the others got their feet tho hahv snema3 70
f sometnng was wrong, perhaps it began to
1eci the aftereifecs OF the drug 1t knoted ts fists
Squlrmed IN the crib and began to cry
While the baby was incrmttently fecdinp and crvno
we planned next step toward getting in tonch with
Banker Keet We decided to write him second letter