Lyons Man Killed By Bandit

STEWART

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 6/6/2014 at 22:59:40

Jackson Sentinel, October 8, 1926

LYONS MAN KILLED BY BANDIT

Grim tragedy stalked on Lone Grave Bluff Wednesday morning when Edward J. Stewart, Lyons, a representative of the Prudential Insurance Company met his death at the hands of an unknown assailant. Robbery is believed to be the motive. No trace of the murderer has been uncovered.

Lone Grave Bluff is located at the foot of Eleventh avenue in Lyons, the street dropping off a precipitous bluff about two hundred feet east of North Fifth street, the tracks of the Northwestern and Milwaukee railway companies running along the base of the bluff.

Stewart was apparently engaged in work in the vicinity of Eleventh avenue and Fourth street and either decided to take a short cut over the bluff or was lured toward that spot by his assailant on some pretext. Safely hidden from the view of residents on top of the bluff and believing himself secure from observation below, the unknown person apparently shot Stewart and then rifled his clothes, the pockets being turned inside out when the body was found. The murderer then dragged the body part way down the bluff and pitched it from a rocky ledge to the base of the bluff, about fifteen feet below.