The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
USED DYNAMITE.
L. IL. Stacy Attempts Cruel MUIR
der at Great Bend.
Seeks to Force a Lighted Bomb
i'm Wife's ShirtWaiSt.
MOTHER SAVES HER.
Throws Explosive to the Floor
and Daughter From Room.
Hotel Badly Wrecked and Several
Persons Narrowly Escape.
Stacy Declares Life a Failure
and Tries Jail Suicide.

| Great Bend Kan. Oct. 21.-E- E
| Stacy is in Jail here charged with an
| attempt to murder his wife with a
/ dynamite bomb and afterwards cruelty
beating her. The attempt was made
| Sunday. In doing this Stacy badly
damaged the Valley house, a hotel
near the Santa Fe depot.
| The bomb exploded in the kitchen OF
| the hotel. Just previous to its explo-
sion there were a number of people in
| the kitchen, all of whom came near
| meeting sudden death. The fact that
the fuse burned a little over time en-
abled all to get outside before the
explosion.
Mrs. Stacys parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman WEIGH, are proprietors of the
Valley house, and until few months
ago it was the home OF the Stacys.
During the summer. Stacy left, tax
ing his two small children, going to
Colorado. His wife followed and for a
time they lived togethe- in Denver
where he worked as a laborer. She
came back to this city a few weeks
ago and since then he has been writ
ing to her asking that she return To
him. She says that she had intended
TO do SO during the holidays
Stacy tired of waiting and Sunday
morning arrived here on the Santa Fe
train No. g. Walking across the street
to the hotel he asked for his wife. He
was told that she was in the kitchen
and going there he started to talk 10
her. but insisted that she go into the
parlor with him. This she refused to
do. and he left the room.
A few minutes later he came rum
ming into the kitch en-, and pulling n
lighted dynamite bomb from under his
coat, attempted to force it in the bosom
of her dress Her mother. who was
standing near. seized the bomb and
throwing it to the floor pushed her
through a screen door into the yard.
Stacy followed, and after kicking
Mrs. WEIGH down. started to beat and
kick his wife During this time the
bomb exploded and people from the
front of the house and In the vicinity
of the depot were attracted to the spot.
Stacy was imme diately placed under
restraint He seemed to care for moth
ing but the death of his wife and her
parents, and during the time he was
beating her expressed his determine
ton to kill them all.
When arrested there was talk OF
lynching and Stacy seemed to welcome
the idea No attempt was made to
take him from the officers. however,
and he was imprisoned at once in the
county Jail.
He OFFERS no explanation for his con-
duct other than that he was badly
treated and that he would be better
off dead than alive. He told the Off
GERS that he would not live TO be tried.
1t is rumored that he attempted to
commit suicide while in his cell. by
tearing up his clothes, and making a
rope from them with which to hang
himself. and that he was discovered
and cut down.
In his grip. which he left in the par
Tor of the hotel. were found a piece OF
fuse for a bomb and a large kitchen
knife The Stacys were married sew
has not been notable for any great de-
gree of harmony at any time.