CANADA Canada - Billy Stone, 21, telegraph operator, shot & killed, Whitby, Ontario, 11 Dec 1914

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Billy Stone: the century-old unsolved Canadian murder

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Murder at the station​

Billy Stone, a 21-year-old telegraph operator, was shot and killed at the Station on December 11, 1914. One hundred years later, his murder remains unsolved.[6] Stone was working the night shift on December 11, when a single shot rang out in the station at 12:37 am. Stone was able to call the local Bell Telephone switchboard, saying he had been shot. He was unable to identify the shooter; when help arrived, he had succumbed to the gun shot, which managed to penetrate his heart. Nothing was missing at the crime scene and no cash was taken. A bloody handprint was found at the scene; it was noted that Stone's hands were clean. An inquest was called in January 1915 but all leads turned out to be dead ends. Billy's father William Stone Sr. was examined by the inquest; feeling that he had become the prime suspect, Stone Sr. ended his life by lying down on the tracks and was run over by a passing train. The ghost of the dead telegraph operator is said to haunt the old station and has been seen by some passing through walls in the building.[7]

Police gathering evidence at the scene explained that there was no powder on the victim's clothes, indicating he had been shot from a distance, likely from the station waiting room. Stone usually extinguished the lights in the station at midnight; the only light in the station was a small lamp over the operator's desk at the time. The last person to see him alive was an accountant from the local asylum that walked past the dispatcher's office at 12:05.[8]

The three most-discussed reasons for Stone Jr.'s murder are that his father killed him for money, that he was killed over an alleged affair or that he was killed over a potential gambling debt.[9]