Show POSSE os s LETS TS MURDERER su fROM GRASP Mob Still on the Trail of Negro Who Killed e Woman in Missouri Kansas City Mo Aug 31 The man manhunt manhunt manhunt hunt that has been In progress In John Johnson Johnson Johnson son and Cass counties Missouri sine since last Tuesday evening when Miss Mary Henderson was found murdered at th the home of or her Chapman Hyatt and the negro hired man Bos Bossie BossIe Bossie sie Francis the supposed murderer missing has not been successful Aft At r fruitless beating of ot the bush ransack ransacking ransacking ing of negro cabins and search of coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines the hundreds of volunteers yes yesterday yesterday yesterday were vere ready to give up and even the bloodhounds refused to follow new trails Last night however fresh interest was aroused by the discovery of or a ne negro negro negro gro skulking in the woods near Strauss burg A party of men set out in pur pursuit pursuit pursuit I suit but hut the negro n gro vanished mysteriously Tonight all the towns along the Mis Missouri Missouri Pacific were werd intensely excited by bya a report that Francis had been cap captured captured captured near Pleasant Hill that the law officers were bent on taking him to Warrensburg jail but that the hunters would carry him to the Hyatt farm farmand farmand farmand and hang or burn him there A negro answering the description of Francis was pursued tonight by a posse In the neighborhood of the Rising Star school house between Pleasant Hill Hlll and So sure were the hunt hunters hunters hunters ers of getting their man that one went I to Pleasant Hill HUI with the information that the negro was in sight and would i be taken In a few minutes From this grew the rumor that Francis was ac actually actually I a a prisoner Later It was learned that the fugitive escaped Rain is fall I I ing the night Is dark and the tho chase is i at a standstill again I |