The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-10-19
MYSTERY OF MANY YEARS is
CLEARED UP HERE.

An inquiry of the Chief of Police
at Lexington by the Chief of Police
of Beaumont, Texas, asking for aid
in finding June Stone and John Golf,
both former residents of Bourbon
county, helped to clear up a mystery
that has for many years baff1ed solu-
ton here.
News of the death of Lucius Desha
Stone, brought to his relatives in
this county this week was the first
information they had had of him
since he disappeared from his home
in the vicinity of Little Rock, this
county, over thirty years ago. In
1887 Stone mysteriously disappeared
from his home on the Stone farm
stance developed nor was any clue
found that shed the least bit of light
as to the cause of his disappearance
or as to his whereabouts. With the
passage of years his friends and rela-
tives became convinced that he had
met foul play, and his death was
taken as an assured fact. All search
for him was discontinued years ago.
About four years ago Mr.. John
Burris, who owned farm near
where Stone had lived, unearthed a
skeleton of a male in a field where
he was blowing. The skeleton was
perfectly formed and well-preserved
despite its burial in the ground for
very evidently many years. Old res
idents of the community remember
ing the disappearance of Stone, at
once took up the theory that he had
been murdered by one of the farm
hands. and his body buried in the
field where the skeleton was found.
Soon, however, it was learned that
his disappearance was still an un-
solved mystery, as the story of the
skeleton reached the ears of Mr.. JAS.
Gibson, now Deputy Sheriff under
Sheriff w, F. Talbot. Mr.. Gibson
stated that he could account for the
presence Of the skeleton in the field
and that it was not that of Mr.. Stone.
He said that twenty years ago he
was residing with his brother, Mr..
VIM. Gibson, a well-known farmer of
that vicinity, and had been studying
medicine with view of adopting it
as profession. He borrowed a
skeleton from DR.. w. c. Wilkerson,
of Little Rock, to use in study OF
anatomy. After he no longer needed
it in his studies it was stored away
in an old loft in buggy house. The
house was afterward torn down, and
theAskeleton was buriedsin the field
where it lay forgotten until turned
up by Mr.. Burris' pillow.
The story which brought the news
of the death of Lucius Stone was first
printed in the Lexington Herald, in
the shape of a letter to Chief OF
Police ]. J. Reagan, in Lexington,
from the Chief of Police at Beau
mont, Texas, asking for aid in find
ing June Stone and John Golf, whom
Lucius Stone, in his last illness, ask
ed to be apprised of his death. Stone
had been working in Beaumont
where he died few days ago. He
was a brother of Squire James Stone
and Mrs. Thomas Golf, of North Mid
dletown. The John Golf referred to
in the communication from the Beau
mont Chief of Police, died in this
county several years ago.
When Stone disappeared over
thirty years ago he left behind him
wife. Mrs. Belle Gibson Stone, and
four children, Mr.. ]. Will Stone, Miss
Mary Stone, a trained nurse, and
Mrs. Sallie Woodall, now residents OF
Paris. and Miss Gertrude Isles Stone,
now a resident of Wisconsin. In
1892 Mrs. Stone secured a divorce
and married Mr.. Thomas Taul, OF
Paris. the Democratic nominee for
Jailer of Bourbon county.