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Show I PRAOER INQUIRY IS NEAR CLOSE il Arrests and Indictments to Take Place Immediately in Collinsville Lynching Case. I COLLINSVILLE III.. April 11. The Inquiry into the banging of Robert P. I Praper by a mob here last Friday I roorninc probably will be concluded I tonight, according to Coroner Roy A ! Lov who is in charge of the inquest. I It is possible that arrests may be j ordered immediately and indictments I asked. I Developments at the inquest thus I far, which has been secret, are said to I indicate that at least one participant I in the hanging has confessed Joseph J I Riegel. 2S years old. a Collinsville I miner and an honorably discharged I I'nited States soldier, is said to have I told the coroner's jury' yesterday that I he was the leader of the mob, that he and another man dragged Pragcr from I tbe basement of the city hall and that although he did not pull the rope that I hanged ihe man, be looked on while I th deed was done He asserted that I the dying wish of Fragcr was that he I be buried in tbe American flag I Funeral Services for Prager were I held in St. Louis His request that a I flap be buried with him was complied I with. . . |