From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 29, 1916:

• “‘One thing the city of Lawrence ought to do is to supply each member of the police force at least one uniform a year,’ said Chief of Police C. M. Fisher to a Journal-World reporter. ‘The city expects its policemen to be property uniformed, and at present it expects them to pay for their own uniforms out of the pay they receive from the city, which is not large…. In many cities of Kansas the policemen are supplied with one uniform a year by the city, and in some places two are provided, one of summer and one of winter weight.’ Chief Fisher felt free to make this suggestion because he is retiring from the force tomorrow night. He will be succeeded by J. M. Boyd, who was appointed by the city commissioners yesterday.”
• “Sheriff W. J. Cummings, Jr., received a letter this morning from Governor Arthur Capper congratulating him on the manner in which he handled the situation arising from the mob sentiment against Bissell Wednesday night…. Sheriff Cummings is interested in the denials now made by an official of Shawnee county that he made any remarks while the mob was in town Wednesday night that would be calculated to inflame the men to action. Several Lawrence men heard the official make the statement that he hoped Bissell would be hanged before an inquest was held…. The man’s loud talk and the character of his remarks attracted much attention about the jail because it was known that he was a Shawnee county official…. Additional evidence that the mob was prepared to make real trouble at the jail in case the prisoner were found here Wednesday night was learned today. One Lawrence man, in talking with a member of the Topeka expedition, asked him how the mob proposed to get into the jail if it found that Bissell was in the jail. The man replied ‘easy enough,’ and displayed a couple of sticks of dynamite which he was carrying carefully in his pocket.”
• “It was yesterday afternoon that Bissell finally admitted without reserve that it was he who killed Edna Dinsmore. Previously he had denied repeatedly that he was the murderer…. Bissell made his confession at Lansing yesterday after Warden Codding had expressed sympathy for him. The warden told him he believed Bissell was a criminal because of a malformation of the head. Bissell said he had been kicked by a horse when he was small, and after more talk about the possible effect of this injury on his moral character, he admitted to the officers that he was the murderer and described in detail how he had killed the little girl. In his confession Bissell makes a request that an operation be performed on his brain to determine whether he can be made a normal man.”