Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-18
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cuse him of getting in here and leav.
ing her with o little child to support
and told him he had better let his get
| ting married alone while in the horse
stealing business and accused him of
having Alvin Stone and the detectives
coming there and searching their house
for stolen property. ! heard Strong
tell his wife that salt peter would not
save the Stone family. He said he
would kill them and dam them He
said he would kill all of them. He
said he would not leave any of them
to tell anything more on him. His
wife then said to him: If you do that
you will go back to the pen and be
hung He told his wife he did not
care dam, that he was going 10 clean
them out. 1t is certain that whoever
it was, went there to kill all of them.
After hearing that | called him to the
door and told him would 20 to work
on the timber the next day.
| II told him to be on hnnd. The next
day he came to work for me and he got
to telling some of his troubles. He
said he did not know as him and his
wife would make hitch of It, He
said his wife has accused him of hav.
inc Alvin Stone and Detective Dunn
coming there and searching their house
for stolen property and ne claimed
they brought laprobes there in their
clothes and left them there to make
it appear that they had found them in
his possession and he talked rather
bitter against Mr.. stones family and
| talked with him little about them
and / never saw no member of the
Stone family. They never saw me.
All know about them is what he told
me and Mr.. Voris said it was correct.
Mr.. voris went over TO Stones and
found that told him the truth. This
Strong worked for me about two
weeks on this timber. He then brought
a man named Rentz to work. This
Rentz brought two sacks of skunk
hides up into these woods one morn
ing in buggy and left them IN an old
ice house. They set there three or four
days and was down to the post office
mt Kent and saw n man sticking up n
notice about some fur being stolen.
stepped up to the man and told him
about this Rentz who was working foy
me, bringing these two sacks of fur
up into these woods where was al
work But | told him that | was not
going near II TO get myself into trou
BILE He said You show me that fur
and YOU are u free man ] then went
up there with him and he said It was
his Then he got out the warrants for
me aud Strong as they said 1t was
found IN my possession, and got five
years and Strong one year for a crime
neither one had nothing to 70 with
"In regard to the horse which was
taken from Julius Gardner at Kent,
the night Of the Stone murders, ali |
know is what Mr. Dunn told me- He
said they found the horse loose In
Kent and could see whore the man
sci on il, and said he found horse hairs
sticking onto the seat Of Strong S
pants Strong had work for man
named King before | hired him Ia
work for me-. ! heard him tell about
digging some potatoes there
This King is a huggagelnas-
| ter on that Chicago train that
goes over the Erie He runs be
tween Meadylle and Kent and lives
near This Gardner aud Mr. Dunn told
me that on this night of the murders
that Strong got onto tho front end of
| this Chicago train at Rnvenna and got
on mp at the junction where the Erie
| CROSSES the & a. l. rnilroad If thut