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Show oo MURDER SUSPECT IN GREAT DANGER Two Hundred Men in Prison Yard Rush at Alleged De-' De-' stroyer of Little Girl. Lansing, Kan.. April 27. Angered by the stories of the murder of Edna DInsmore in Topeka Tuesday, two hundred prisoners today wero dispersed dis-persed after thoy had attempted to attack Fred BIssell of Topeka, suspected sus-pected of the crime, In the Btate penitentiary peni-tentiary yard. The prisoners had heard of Bissell s arrival here to save him from the Topeka To-peka mob that Invaded Lawrence last night and under tho cry of "come on boys," they rushed at Bissell. Deputy Wardens and prison guards clubbed tho mob to submission. Lawrence, Kan., April 27. This city Is quiet today after tho departure depart-ure of the mob of nearly 200 unmasked unmask-ed men who came here from Topeka Kan. thirty miles away, with the avowed Intention of taking Fred Bis-sell, Bis-sell, alleged slayer of Edna DInsmore from tho DouglaB county Jail here and lynching him. The first members of the mob, having hav-ing come Topeka in seven motor cars, reached the Douglas county jail here at midnight. Thoy demanded that Sheriff W. J. Cummlngs produce BIs-Bell BIs-Bell and several flourished revolvers. But the mob was apparently without leTdheSn$b accepted the sheriffs of-fer of-fer to permit any four men to go through the jail in testimony that Bissell had been taken to LanMng on Governor Capper's orders. Later twenty-Hve motor loads of mob mem-Dors mem-Dors came up to tho jail for a second SCTopheka, Kan., April' 27.-Most of the men who went to Lawrence last nirtitTith tho mob to get Fred Bis-Je57So Bis-Je57So 1b being held for the mu; dcr of Edna Dinsmoro. came hack to Topeka early today. Excitement apparently ap-parently han subsided. t |