People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — DISCREDIT STONE’S STORY. [ARTICLE]

DISCREDIT STONE’S STORY.

Two of Those He Implicates in the Wrattai> Murder Can Prove an Alibi. Washington, Ind., Oct 25.—Yarborough, one of the men whom Bud Stone implicated in the murder of the Wrattan family on the night of September 18, has admitted a number of points made by Stone. He admits that the men had previously planned to rob old Mrs. Wrattan. There is a prevailing opinion heie that Stone’s statement that the six men were present the night of the murder is not true. Two of them —White and Clark—can prove by good witnesses that they were elsewhere at the time of the butchery and it is thought Cosby will be able to ‘ explain his whereabouts in an acceptable way. Stone in all appearances was not aided by more than one or two others and possibly murdered the family alone. .» he blood on his clothes was not smeared on, as he insists, but it is in spots as though it had splashed on the garments. Stone’s wife has been threatened with violence for having withheld the secret so long and has been brought here for safety. She claims she would have revealed all she knew but for fear of her husband’s wrath.