Show SENSATIONAL CONFESSION I ExMember of the Dalton GangTells Ail Lie UIIOMK ana 1robnbly Jlore FORT WAYNE Ind Dec 4 William Stone formerly a member of the Dalton gang under sentence to ten years here for shooting Deputy Sheriff Harold has confessed committing murders in Chicago Cleveland Kansas City and several other places His story is one life of murder burglary train and stage robberies Scone says that he and his partner William Walrath killed a man at Kansas City in 1SW and robbed him but later gave the money to Henry Donnelly a policeman for protection He confesses to the murder of Airs Stewart and her son Clarence In Cleveland The bodies were cut to pieces and thrown into Lake Lo Erie He says the following morning he killed a boy in the Big Four yards In Llnndale O ars I Murdered n Farmer In Buffalo he and Walrath and a man named Burns a saloonkeeper killed a wealthy western farmer who was looking for a good time The money was divided and Stone and Walrath returned to Chicago Chi-cago and with their share started a restaurant Here Walrath married Stones sister Mrs Walrath died and Stone and Wal rath left Chicago Later Stone returned and was implicated in the murder of a father and son named Prunty Three men aro said to be now receiving life sentences sen-tences at Joliet for the crime but Sloe was not arrested Another murder was committed at Union City Pa the victim being an old man named Horton or Norton Another murder was committed by the trio near Youngtown 0 the victim being a resident resi-dent of Ashtabula The last murder committed by Stone ana Walrath was on April Z 1S95 on a Pennsylvania freight train At this time Stone was shot and did not get medical aid U South Bend was reached The next desperate act of the trio was tho robbery o a Grand Trunk train in Michigan where five watches and money were secured Two of these watches have been Identified since their arrest here Hustled Out of Town This afternoon when the officers learned that John C Stones confession had become be-come generally known he was hustled out of the city to the Michigan City penitentiary peni-tentiary to serve a term ot ten years made his confession When Stone private confesion two months ago he implicated his pal John Duffey as the leading spirit in the bloody highway robberies This sensational tional confession was kept concealed till Duffey was placed on trial yesterday for assault with intent to kill a posse of deputy sheriffs The confession became puDlic to late to have any effect on Dulfeys case a when the Jury retired at night the wild tale of crimes had not reached tile jury Duffy only received a fouryear sentence six less than his fouyea squealing pal who was Implicated In the same crime The officers or at least sm of saro them are inclined to think that Stono has painted and embellished a few more hills of criminality into mountains of crime for no other purpose than to vent his emnlty toward his pal Duffy Since emnly the death of their pal William Walrath from the effects of bullet wounds received fro sheriffs ceived in their battle with deputy batte last April Duffy and Stone have been such bitter enemies that they have been kept in different parts of the Jail and were never in the same room even during meals ml ice from Mansfield 0 and Erie and Kansas City Indicate that Stone Pa Knss Ci3 Idicate was very familiar with murders com fanla ver each of these places Denials have been received from Chicago Cleveland Cleve-land and Buffalo |