Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — Wife Gives secret of Killing Away. [ARTICLE]

Wife Gives secret of Killing Away.

Rochester, Ind., Oct. 16.—Frank • Bink” Stimson, owner of a garage in this city and formerly an auto race driver, drove the auto that killed Leopold Zanger on the Michigan road four miles north of Logansport last Sunday evening. This information came to the officers here today when a passenger in the Stimson car, Richard Hart, of this city, told the story to his wife. She was unable to keep the secret and told Geo. Holmon, attorney, who persuaded the men to surrender themselves to the Logansport officers. Mr. Stimson with the other men who were in the auto, Roy Shanks, Thomas Black, Richard Hart, William Morris, deputy sheriff, and Thomas Hoover, all of Rochester, left for Logansport early today to make a confession. They were accompanied by two attorneys. Mr. Stimson asserts that the accident happened when Zanger suddenly stepped in front ff his machine. Another car, he says, was coming from the north at the time and Zanger evidently tried to evade it and stepped directly in front of the Stimson car. Stimson says he stopped after hitting Zanger but at the suggestion of one of the men in the car the driver did not go back. Zanger was struck about 9 o’clock and died soon alter he was found four hours later. The local officers, with those from Logansport, have been working on the theory all week that the man’s death Was caused by Rochester persons but were unable to obtain any tangible evidence.