The Sumner County Press [Kansas]
21 Sep 1881

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.