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Show HIDES IN TRUNK; ESCAPES FROM MOB Sheriff's " Ruse - Saves . Accused Slayer From Lynching at Hands of Excited Crowd. Norfolk, Neb. With his prisoner concealed la a trunk In the baggage tar, Sheriff Heenua evaded three threatening crowd and delivered Walter Wal-ter Simmons, held In connection with the murder of Frank Paul, thirty-five years old, of this city, to the Jail at Gregory, S. D. ' Following Simmons' arrest here crowds bean to gather and his transfer trans-fer to Butte, Neb., was planned as a safety measure. Word was received, however, that large numbers of persons, per-sons, reaching almost mob proportions, had congregated at several railway Hides Prisoner In Trunk. stations along the route and Sheriff Heenan altered his plans, taking the prisoner through to Gregory. A crowd stormed the train at Spencer Spen-cer and again at Anoka and Fairfax and searched the coaches for the prisoner, pris-oner, but the sheriffs ruse of having Simmons secreted In a trunk was successful. suc-cessful. Paul, an automobile dealer here, was murdered and his body pitched over a bridge Into a creek, near Bris-low, Bris-low, according to the verdict of the coroner's Jury. The body was, found by one of several posses that had been scouring the territory for two days. Simmons Is said, to have admitted to officers that .'he abandoned Paul's automobile near Spencer, Neb,, where a searching party found It, bloodstained. blood-stained. He denies all knowledge of the man-ter man-ter In which Paul met bis death. |