Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — BODY OF KEET BABY FOUND [ARTICLE]

BODY OF KEET BABY FOUND

Had Been Brutally Murdered and Thrown in a Well. Lloyd Keet, the 14-months-old son of the Springfield, Missouri, banker, who was kidnapped ten days ago and held for ransom, was killed by his abductors after the father failed in repeated efforts to pay the sum demanded, and his body thrown in an abandoned well where it was found Saturday. Six suspects have been arrested and efforts are being made to fasten the crime on them. The entire country adjacent to the scene of action is wrought up over the affair and feeling is very bitter against the prisoners. An effort was made to force a confession from one by placing a rope about his neck and lifting him from the ground, but he stoutly denied his guilt.