The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
MURDERED At HIS POST
Night Station Agent Found Dead
in His Office.
HIS HEAD WAS CRUSHED
A Confession Wrung From a Man Who
Was Supposed to Be an Intimate
Friend of the Murdered
5---' Man.

Easton, Pa, Jan. 14.-Night Opera
tor II. ii. Wurster of Bingen, a small
station on the North Penn branch Of
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad
seven miles below Bethlehem, was
murdered at his post about 1916 this
morning. The discovery of the mur-
der was made about 3 o'clock Lew
ellyn Stout, youth of II living near
BY, killed Wurster. He is in Jail mere,
and has confessed. Wurster was "a
years old, and leaves a widow and
child He was the night station agent,
ana mad charge of the money drawer,
ticket office and express company*s Of
flce. The office was rifled.
Wurster was good operator and
very careful He worked steadily at
his key last night until 12:45. After
that no reply could be had from him,
though he was repeatedly called by
other operators. Trainmen were in
structed to stop at the station, and,
If he was asleep, to wake him up. At
3 O'Clock local freight drew up to
the station, and the fireman yelled for
Wurster, but received no response.
Then trainman went into the office
He saw Wurster seated at his desk, ap-
"a
ever His head had been crushed by
blow. One arm was by his side and
the other rested on the ia BILE in front
of him, his fingers near the telegraph
key.
The railroad men were Mortified A
glance showed that the office had been
ransacked. 1t was plain that Wur-
ster had been murdered by some one
who had robbed the office. The MUIR
derer had crept in upon him unheard
AS the night was stormy and the wind
blew constantly, the sounds of the
murderer entering the office were prob
ably drowned in the rafting of the
windows and the blowing of the wind
and the driving snow. The murderer
had crept up behind Wurster and
knocked him unconscious with heavy
bar of iron. He sank in his seat, new
err knowing what struck him or that
his life was in danger. Then the muir
derer. to make sure of his work, fired
two bullets into Wurster's body.
Despite the confusion of tracks in the
snow about the station, Detectives
johnson and Doran found a suspicious
trail leading to the house of Eli Stout
stout's house, and going in, found
Llewellyn Stout stepson of Eli
Stout, in bed, though the rest ofthe
IA Sly were all astir. The officers ex-
am led Llewellyn's shoes and found
they fitted the tracks. They then ar
rested him. He denied the charge.
He said he was one of Wurster's best
friends and would not think of harmirg
him. He admitted that he was in Bin
gen last night and was drinking. He
did not remember how he got home,
he said.
Stout was brought to Jail here to-
night by Detectives Johnson and Do
ran. Johnson worked with Stout from
3 until 5 o'clock this afternoon before
he broke down. Then he told how he
had gone to the station and had killed
Wurster in order to get the money lie
knew the latter had. He had hunted
for a club but not finding any, he had
taken a railroad coupling pin and
struck Wurster over the head with it,
Then he struck him three more times,
and that made him murderer. He
said he ransacked all the draw in
the Office but returned all but the
money. This amounted to SELL and
it was all he got.
At first Stout said that there was a
fight, but later he denied this and said
there was no fight, and Wurster did not
know of his presence or the intention
to attack him until he was rendered
helpless by the first blow. Stout, after
confeesing, said he felt greatly reliev-
ed. he TOOK the detective to the cut
house at his home, a mile from Bin
gen, and produced all the stolen mon
ey but two dollars. Taking Detective
johnson into the house, he drew the
rest from hiding place in a sofa.
Stout made another confession to
Warden Bachman at the Jail, but did
not give any new details. Stout is
about II years of age. His father is
dead. His mother married her broth
er-in-laW, Eli Stout.