The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-04
A JUNE MURDER CONFESSED.
How Man Was Loaded with Iron
and Sunk in the Lake.


MICHIGAN CITY, July Especial
One Of the most cold-blooded murders
ever perpetrated in Laporte county was
committed in Michigan City recently and
confessed today.
William Jones was killed by James
Greybeal. an ex-convict and a we'll
known character Of the city. The muir
derer. loading his victim with about one
hundred and fifty pounds of scrap iron,
sank the body in the harbor, supposing
this would hide his crime from the pubic,
but a witness told the entire story today
Of the murder to the authorities, and
Greybeal is now a prisoner on the charge
of murder
The murder was committed on the night
of Tuesday, June 5. That evening Jones,
the victim, left McNulty's livery barn
promising to return early the next morn
ing. On the same evening En- Gerbrick,
a divorced woman. with whom the man
Greybeal has been residing for year
or two, hired horse and buggy and early
in the evening she and man named
Stambaugh, accompanied by Mrs. Jones'
wife Of the murdered man, went out driv-
ing. They got liquor in their wanderings
about town. and after an hour came back
anu lclL MIS-. JOlcS Oul dt ACA AS1Aea~ASS'
She was drunk and went to bed
The horses head was directed through
the main thoroughfares Of the city and
Mrs. Gerbrick and Stambough had another
outing When returning they halted in
front of Mrs. Gerbrick's domicile at 1880
o'clock.
Hitching the horse she and her asso-
ciate went to the window. Mrs. Ger
!, IN
cupant of the house was Greybeal; he was
apparently asleep and the door was
locked.
Mrs. Gerbrick again tapped on the win
dow-pane, calling to him. Receiving no
reply she lighted matches as signal 10
the occupant of the house, but still Grey
beal slept.
"Kick the door down." suggested SIAM
baugh, and Mrs. Gerbrick promptly acted
upon the suggestion. She kicked the door
repeatedly, but ii did not yield. Present
ly the key turned and Greybeal threw
the door open. He stood near the TIRES
hold with revolver in his hand. SIAM
baugh at that time was standing few
feet away awaiting developments. Just
as Greybeal opened the door William
Jones came up TO where Mrs. Gerbrick
and Stambaugh were standing, having
been attracted by the noise and commO-
ton.
Just as Jones got in range Of the door
way Greybeal raised his revolver and
with an oath said that no man should
kick his door open.
He fired and Jones fell dead within two
feet of the doorstep. After which he COM
PEELED Stambaugh at the point of a re-
yolver to assist him in weighing the body
of Jones with iron and dumping it into
the harbor.
Stambaugh let out the secret to a
woman he was living with, who, in turn,
informed Capt. Donly of the police force,
who arrested the pair the charge Of
murder and they were bound over to the
September term Of court without bail and
conducted to the county Jail this after
noon.
Stambaugh would have told the police
about the affair before this but he lived
in fear of Greybeal.
The murderer is an eX-convict and was
sent up from Tippecanoe county nine
years ago for forgery. He was a pal of
the notorious Ed Fahnestock.
He was discharged from prison in 1889
and has lived here since his release.