| Show Girl Abducted J And Murdered I By Ex-C Ex Convict Ex-Convict I Man Admits Crime Leads Officers Officers Officers Of Of- to Place Where He Hid Body MOB QUI QUICKLY KL Y GATHERS Prisoner Spirited Away to Balk Lynching 81 Dr BT Associated Treis COLBY Kan April The IG-The The body of Dorothy Hunter year old Sel Sd- den Kan schoolgirl was found concealed con con- in a haystack two miles from Achilles Rawlins count county town today by officers led to the spot b by Richard Read 53 53 who confessed he and later killed the girl As the body was discovered a mob snob of Selden citizens in 50 motor cars were in search of the sheriff and his prisoner Scores of cars had trailed the officer and were halted near b by byas byas as Read revealed the hiding place of his youthful victim The county coroner and count county physician immediately were summoned summoned sum sum- from Atwood Shortly after aUer the body was found the county attorneys attorney's office announced announced an an- the girl had been attacked and then strangled SPIRITED AWAY As scores of cars were driven toward toward toward to to- ward the place where Read ha had concealed con con- his victim the convict ex-convict was placed in an automobile by Sheriff Sherif 1 and driven hastily away to escape possible mob action Court officials at Burlington Colo Cob today oday identified Richard Read as T. T R. R Read who pleaded guilty there April 18 18 1916 to a charge of or having assaulted year old Pauline Weis Weis- sharr Read who ho testified at the time he was 37 years rears old was as sentenced to o serve sene an indeterminate sentence in inthe inthe the he Colorado penitentiary Read was described bed as a a. a man of oC peculiar appearance at least 6 feet tall all stooped and with arms abnormally abnormally abnor abnor- mally long RETURNS S TO SCHOOL The girl irl daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Hunter was last seen een shortly after aLter 4 p. p m. m Thursday when she left three girl irl friends to return to the Selden Sel Sel- den schoolhouse for her dinner pail One of her companions was a sister Alice 9 A search was begun for her when she fa failed led to rejoin her companions or return to her home by nightfall Informed of the yesterday yester yester- day Sheriff McGinley arrested Read on his farm tarm near Rexford because the farmer armer a few ew hours previously had told old him a weird stor story of having been and driven m many miles ina in ina a car over that area Read at first denied knowledge of the he abduction MOD MOB MAKES THREATS News of his arrest brou brought ht a mob of or enraged Selden citizens to Col Col- by y Some were cre armed Displaying a rope the mob made open threats to storm the thc jail and l lynch the prisoner Sheriff McGinley persuaded them to pare him because of information he might be able to give as to the girls girl's whereabouts After Arter the mob dispersed at 2 a a. a m. m today oday Sheriff McGinley announced Read had confessed he the theirl girl irl later killed her and concealed her bod body in a haystack S Kidnaper Telephones That Girl Is Safe WILMINGTON Del April 16 UP Nin year old Hilda Brodsky kid kid- while en route to school yesterday yesterday yester yester- day is safe and will be returned to to- night light to her parents according to a telephone call a woman made to Brodsky today The woman oman represented herself as Continued on Pace Two 1 GIRL DIRL AND MURDERED Continued d From Page PAle One On one of the kidnapers the distraught lather father said It was the first statement the father father fa Ia I ther a wealthy hosiery manufacturer er cr had made since the little girl disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis I appeared yesterday He did not immediately immediately im immediately im- im mediately report the childs child's absence to lo police It was reported a ransom note received received received re re- re- re at al the home at al noon yesterday had threatened the childs child's life if it the case was reported to lo authorities Meanwhile police sought Benjamin Sherman an uncle of the girl for fori questioning He lives in Philadelphia and his wile wife advised police he had hadaway been away several days but bul doubted that he could offer any light on the little girls girl's disappearance Mrs Sherman told police they announced an an- that her husband in m December December Decem Decem- ber 1929 1020 was sentenced to lo n a term in inthe inthe the Newcastle county work house on ona a charge of embezzling 2600 The warrant was sworn out by Brodsky who employed Sherman Brodsky later interceded and obtained Sherman's Shermans Shermans Sherman's Sher Sher- mans man's release |
