The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
TELL OF MURDER
Two Men Killed Kansan in
Railroad Yards.
He Had Caught Them RObbiNg
Freight Cars.

! Denver CoIo Nov q. The search
| for the slayer of Jesse Stingley, former
ly of Ottawa, Kan, De Lue agency
| detective, who was shot twice and then
| beaten to death while guarding cars OF
merchandise on the Moffat road tracks
near Utah Junction, the night OF Octo-
| Der "a, has come to an end.
Surrounded by De Lue detectives
Chief of Police O'Neill and his men
and Sheriff Schloo, of Adams county
and his force, all of whom have been
working night and day on the case, two
young men sat in the Office of Chief
O'Neill and told, coolly and without a
trace of concern how they killed Sting
| ley as he crept upon them in the act
of robbing one of the cars.
William Patrick Code, 25 years old,
and Frank L. Smith, 81 years old, were
the slayers. They confessed they were
responsible for the many car robberies
in the vicinity of Utah Junction.
A former ''paT' of the two men, whose
name the authorities will not divulge,
fornia, ''peached.' The lure of the re-
ward caused him to give up his former
associates.
His story eau, ed the arrest of Code
miles by Sheriff Schloo over Oklahoma
after Smith, who was arrested in Altus'
Okla. by Schloo.
The police are inclined to accept
Codes story. Differing only in the
point of names, the men told how they
were engaged in robbing the box car
the night of the murder. 1t was after
- O'Clock Smith was within the car.
Code was standing outside acting as
lookout He was armed with a 81
caIiber revolver. He warned Smith when
anybody approached by knocking
against the car.
The night of the murder Stingley
walked up the tracks towards the car
Code raped for Smith to be quiet and
when the detective had come up to MIN
! he asked for a match
| Stinglev gave him the match. lie
knew Code was employed in the yards
land at first evidently was not sus-
picious. He talked to Code minute OF
so and then walked on.
| The detective probably became sus-
picious when he thought the matter
| over. At any rate, he walked on Ut
the tracks a short distance ana tileI
! circling around, crept up towards the
car from the side, through the weeds
He was crawling. Code saw him.
! Code shot once, the bullet striking
! StingIey in the forehead. smith came
| from inside the car and as he stood II
the door Stingley arose to ms rect
Staggering, and started toward the two
| men. p,
| he cried.
| He fell to the ground and rolled over
his back to the two men. At Smlth
command. Code shot again TINS inns Tins
sending a bullet into the man PACK
He Law still, but Smith was not salts
fed that he was dead. He wanted te
| make sure of 1t.
He took from the car a heavy crow
bar about five feet long. With 1t NJ
went over to the PROSTATE man He
! still was breathing. So Smith, Codt
savs struck him in the head five or slz
times with the crowbar.
STOPPING over the victim smith 1ooh
from the pockets Stingley's revolver;
The men then went back to tneH
work of repairing and inspecting cals
! No+ at all unnerVed by the crime they
bad inst committed, they worked al
that night and every night until they
| were discharged