transcription of Newspapers->Deaths->9.884-2.jpg The Sumner County Press [Kansas] 21 Apr 1881 BEGIN A Demon of Death Last Monday afternoon Orin Troup shot and killed Wm. F. Lake just north of Mulvane in Sedgwick county. Mr. Lake was one of Sumner county's best citizens, a quiet, peaceable, honorable christian gentleman, who lived three and a half miles northwest of Belle Plaine. Troup is a large, rough, quarrelsome customer, an Ishmaelite whose hand is against every man. Last fall Mr. Lake did some threshing for Troup and had repeatedly requested his pay therefor. On Monday he went to Troup again, in company with W. A. Egan, and requested the payment of his dues. In the conversation that ensued Troup called him a "G-d d--n liar,", to which Mr. Lake replied: "I will take that, considering the source," and started to walk away, when Troup sprang down from his sulky plow and attacked him with his fists. Lake picked up a monkey wrench with which to defend himself, whereupon Troup drew his revolver and shot him in the right arm and the right side of the abdomen, before he turned to run; when he shot him in the back, the ball entering under the right breast. Mr. Lake lived only a half hour. His remains are preserved in ice and his interment deferred until the arrival of his brother from New Jersey. The murder being committed in Sedgwick county, a warrant was sued [sic] out there and Troup arrested. END From: "Hank & Peggy Oswald" BEGIN Lambertville Record July 16, 1881 - G. W. Lake returned from his trip to Kansas where he went to take care of his brothers affairs. The trial of Oron Troup for the murder of William Lake came off in May but the jury disagreed and he will be retried in Sept. END Lambertville Record Lambertville, NJ April 20, 1881 BEGIN Mr. Cornelius Lake, of this city, received a telegram from Kansas on Monday stating that his brother William and been shot that day. No particulars were given. He had been living from some time near Belle Plain, Kansas. He was well known to persons in this section, having lived for some time in this city. END Lambertville Record Lambertville, NJ May 18, 1881 BEGIN Mr. G.W.Lake of Frenchtown started for Mulvane Kansas on Monday of last week, to look after his late brother's affairs. END Lambertville Record Lambertville, NJ 6-16-1881 BEGIN Mr. G.W. Lake returned from his trip to Kansas this week, where he had gone to look after his brother's affairs, and has been sick since his return. The trial of Oron Troup for the murder of William Lake came off in May, but the jury disagreed, and he will be tried again in September. Mr. Lake reports the Jerseymen in the vicinity of Mulvane and Belle Plain, as doing well END