The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 12, 1895, Page 3

CONFESSES TO MANY CRIMES William Stone Reveals a Long List of Bloody Murders. Gang, and One of His Crimes is Henry Donne Kansas City fession. Ft. Wayne, Ind. Dec. 4.— William Stone, formerly a member of the Dalton gang, under sentence of ten years here for shooting deputy sher- iff Harold, has confessed to commit- ting murders in Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City and several other places His story is one of a life of murder, 1 ra} . g » rol apr! burglary, train or stage robbery, and is a startling confession. | Stone says that he and his part-| | could not call the ted at each of these places. Cleveland and Buffalo | /ders in Chicago. «| now serving life sentences in Joliet. Policeman, Inplicated inthe Con-|The police here never heard of | Stone, and do not want him for mur- | der or anything else. 1883 man’s ba |sixth street bridge in said he lived in Leavenworth. “Policeman Donnelly,” sei chief, “was then on the night watc ner, William Walrath, killed a man at Kansas City in 1883 and robbed him, but later gave the money to Henry Donnelly, a policeman, for protection. He confesses to the murder of Mrs. Stewart and her son, Clarence in Cleyeland. the bodies | were cut to pieces and thrown into Lake Erie. He says the foll g morning he killed a boy in the Big Four yards in Linndale, O. In Buffalo he and Walrath and a man named Burns, a saloonkeeper, | killed a wealthy western farmer who was looking fora good time. The money was divided and Stone and Walrath returned to Chicago with their share started a restaurant. Here Walrath married Stone’s sister. Mrs. Walrath died and Stone and Walrath left Chicago. Later Stone returned and was implicated in the murder of a father and son named Prunty. Three men are said to be serving life sentences at Joliet for the crime, but Stone was not arrest- ywin | | | | and | | knew more about the and reported the crime. always a suspicion that Donnelly ha aiiair t eared to tell, but he was never ar rested for this offense afterward Donnelly shot and killed Police Officer McDonald, who Donnelly claimed that the shooting was done in self-defense, but he was itentiary, I believe, for To the best of five years. my memory, the policemen at the time that Don- nelly killed McDonald because the latter knew too murder and robbery of the Leaven- worth man. “Surrounding circumstances indi- is true.” Our Idle Little Army. New York World. ed. He then tells of a murder at Dun- kirk, N. ¥., where Duffy stabbed a pal—“Buffalo Jack”—four times and buried him in the woods. Another murder was committed at Union City, Pa., the victim being an old man named Horton or Norton. Ane other murder was committed by the trio near Youngstown, O., the vic tim being a resident of Ashtabula. The last murder committed by Stone and Walrath was on April 29, 1895, on a Pennsylvania freight train. At this time Stone was shot and did not receive medical gid until South! Bend was reached. The next des- perate act of the trio was the rob- bery of a Grand Trunk train in Michigan, where five watches and some money were secured. Two of these watches have been identified since their arrest here. Advices from Cleveland say the police of that city think the confes- sion of John Stone at Ft. Wayne, Ind., is based largely on imagina- tion. Nothing is known here of the crimes which Stone says he and Walrath committed in Cleveland, and it is certain the pair were not arrested here, and that they did not escape from jail by feigning insanity. This afternoon when the oflicers learned that William Stone’s confes- sion became generally known he was hustled out of the city to the Michi- gan City penitentiary to serve a! term of ten years. When Stone} made his private confession two} months ago he implicated his pal, | John Duffy, as the leading spirit in In his annual report Secretary La- mont gives the total effective strength of the army as 20,584 men of all arms. He reports that during the last year, as during the preced- ing one, this force has had nothing to do in the way of military opera-| tions. There was no public enemy to cppose and there were no Indian outbreaks to suppress. Upon a false alarm a small force was sent to Jackson’s Hole, but it had no occa sion to make war upon anybody. Ours is the greatest nation in the world, population, territory, wealth and influence all considered. Yet our army is almost immeasurably the smallest maintained by any great nation or even by any second or third rate nation in the world. And that army, small as it is, has nothing to do except maintain the nucleus of an organization upon which to rest a volunteer force should the necessity of armed na- tional defense ever arise. All this is the result of conditions that are more than creditable to the great republic andS its people. We have no need to arm agninst other nations because we mind our own business and interfere with nobody. We do not provoke aggression, and should we be wantonly assailed we could call citizen and patriot soldiers inco the field by millions for the na- tional defense Better still, our government is of the people, by the people and for the people, and it has nothing to fear from the people. It needs no great army to support its authority be- cause its authority is simply that of Denials | have been received from Chicago, | | The police of Chicago take no | |stoek in the story of Convict Stone | lin Ft. Wayne to the effect that he! He Was a Member of the Dalton | was connected with the Prunty mur- Three men were! Said to Have Been Committed in| convicted of these crimes and are Chief of Police Serviss of Kansas | City, Kan., satd to the Times yester- | day that he remembered that there) | was a party killed and robbed at the There was | han he| Some time was | jon the night watch with Donnelly convicted aud sentenced to the pen-! after | serving two years he was pardoned. The opinion was prevalent among touch about the} cate that this man Stone’s confession | Hosts of people go when St. Jacobs Oil Mattrretttt THERE AR Superior cook stoves, both wood at prices that defy competition. first-class goods. Ex-Confederate Monument. 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Not long | Mr. Reed w pted by some his f to friends he had known, satire in Mr. Reed's characteristic “I think I understand Mr. Cleveland,” Reed began. “He man who does the best he can'within | the limits of his understanc jis only just to put in this ¢ ‘tion. | pecially when he knows the are jnot loaded. Though he has never | been to war he kn between vein. Cleveland is courageo bullets blank ea jridges. Ihave met Cleveland a jhe pleased me by his directness. | | There no nonsense abou | He in not thinking about | all. is him. himself at You know the man in the white | house has to steel himself against \flattery. Every fell him what a thing of beauty he is, j how sweet his voice, how rice hair, and they are all after No one could flatter him. He came |to Washington with such a good | | Opinion of himself no one could add janything that would please him. } The Vernon County Scandal. | Nevada, Mo., December 3.—A stir | was created here by the announce meat that that the Vernon County | Grand Jury is investigating the matter touching the charges made some weeks ago against Rev. J. W. Carpenter, pastor of the Methodist ‘Church South. The matter was in vestigated at the time by a church \tribunal, composed of three Presid ing Elders, and the reverend gentle man was acquitted. At the time the charges were made Rosa Shouse, the woman in the case, made an affidavit damaging to Mr. Carpenter Before the close of the church trial Minnie Shouse, a sister of Rosa, stated that her sister had lied at the | cheese. | |Rey. Carpenter and others have been called before the Grand Jury. Shot at by Turkish Forts. Paris, Noy. 30.—A report is+cur- rent that a British warship had pass- ed the Dardanelles, and while making the inward passage she was fired on by the big Turkish forts. The ru mor can not be confirmed, nor is it known whether any of the shots | struck the ship or were returned by the vessel. Forts of modern construction and armaments line both sides of the entrance to the Dardanelles from the Aegian Sea. The strait varies in width from one mile at its narrowest point to four miles when it widens into the Sea of Marmora. The pass- age is forty miles leng. Late ad vices that it was a merchaniman fired on, and that the forts used blank cartridges. Senator Sherman in his charges Gen. Alger with defeating his presidential aspirations by buy- ing up southern negro delegates who had been instructed by their consti- tuents to vote for the Senator. Alger retaliates with an emphatic denial of | the charge. matters, John R. Lynch, the negro yw wants to tell! | book instigation of other parties, for the} purpose of damaging Mr. Carpenter. | book | To further complicate | the bloody highway robberies. This sensational confession was kept con- | cealed till Duffy was placed on trial | yesterday for assault with intent to The |. order upon occasion, our army has an important work io d Secretary Lamont it is doing that the people themselves. But as a nucleus preserving systematic 8 an agency for skill the ts of war and putting down dis in kill a posse of deputy sherifts. confession became public too late to | have any effect on Duffy's case, as when the jury retired at night the | y ale “ri rn : . : oe wild tale of one ca nee epee jmental organization permits. Th the jury. Duffy only received a four) appeal of the secretary for authorit th S| ~ = han his) to adopt a more modern organization squealing pal, who was implicated| adapted to modern methods and in the same crime. The officers, or! conditions of war is the more to be at least some of them, are inclined|beeded because our army is not | maintained for fighting but to ary instruction alive. Should years sentence, six less to think that Stone bas painted aud} embellished a few molehills of crim | inality into mountains of : i y of fighting arise the crime, for} regular army ought to furnish not no other purpose than to vent his/only the nucleus of the forces to be Since the/ raised but a pattern for their ization. enmity against death of from the ceived in their battle with the ¢ ty sheriffs here last April eits usefulness as great Stone have been s: bitter enemies | we may some day need. that they have been kept in different parts of the jail and were never in Dutty. 1, William Wal of bullet wour orga The secretary, whose wise } sy wered to organize it in a w the effeet ; epu » Duify and} to as the same room, even during meals. } Advices from Mansfield, O., and | °° Erie, Pa., indicate that Stone wa soos very familiar with murders commit- | best cure for it-MSold L Syruy is the 7 H. L. 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