Career
He was the first hockey player to be charged with murder for the death of another player, after he clubbed Alcide Laurin to death during a game on February 24, 1905. He was the only son of Ephram Allen Loney and Jerusha Ann Adams of Maxville. Loney claimed self-defence.
The charges were reduced to manslaughter, and he was subsequently acquitted.
He died on March 2, 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta, where he had worked as a Canadian National Railway employee.