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Show I ILLINOIS MUWDERtR ' CAUCH I' AT SALT LAKE. hanmrl .llo . r, W lio KiUil 111- lamlljr I" l.lliioi.. Alt..eil.-U H.nrl.le !'! I rll Into II. no 1- nl the I'olii e. Sinlied Mn-cr. who murdered bis j wife ami el.;i,ti-,-n at Ibe tn. Ileuu:-. May i:;. was taken int- custo.iy at Salt ; I.alii; and given in'o tier i . ri i . 1 S of 1 1 1 1 i nols o''e'.o-s. M. . -.:r i-iidi-avored, to commit suhd.ie by .!..)., tlii an 1 end ! his mi-er'., 1 ut bis aim e.as pnor and 1 ban 1 1 v p''od need a !l" h won n d. Sundav tuoriilng' at d. ,t , b re , Moser, ' wet to the skin and with blood stream-I stream-I ing ftom b is ie-'el. w a s f .' . i lid on Sc-etnid ! Soiii.ii sir. -et bv 'ole-.-r I'ali.i.-r, who ' look him to the sinliou. lie freely tb--j clar.-d that he '.'. in t in- m u rde i er, and that he hud at tempted suicide as a coiisequrm-e. lb- said that he- bad gone down to the bridee over the Jor-! Jor-! (bm at. t h. - in: i- rse.-iioii of Sri-om! Sou! h ' and 'I enth W est, stood on the bridge, j shot himself and fell into the water. ' The wound, however, was sufficient 1 only to blejhlly skin him. and he got out. as quichly as lie could. While the police were loth for atime to believe the man's sla temen ts, look-iitig look-iitig upon them as the raving's of a miud diseased, a search of his dripping clothing' cloth-ing' revealed the fact that be. bad told the. truth. iMoser'su'ime was a revolting' one. ! He tells the story as follows: "I killed my wife. one son of seven years, another of live years and the baby of the family, aged eight months. I was alone during' a portion of the day, my wife and children having gone to flu: I Ornish church, of which her father is one of the preachers. She came home about G o'clock' and went into the cellar. 1 followed ber down ami shot her. Then 1 took my oldest boy into the bedroom and shot him. 1 called the next boy to me, told him to g'o into the pantry, 1. think it was, when 1 shot him ulso as he turned his back toward me. I could not do it with him look-jug look-jug at me, you know. Then came the baby, i took one shot at her as she lay in the bed, but I do not believe that I hit her the first time, so I fired twice more. Then I knew that she was dead. "Then I went down into the cellar where the body of my wife was lying and covered it up with a piece of old carpet. I threw some clothes over the bodies of the children, leaving them where they fell, locked np the house and started away. "X reached here Thursday morning. Last night 1 went down to the river, stood on the bridge, shot myself in the head and fell in. The cold water revived re-vived me and I crawled out. When I found out that the wound was not fatal, 1 concluded to try again, but could not find my pistol. So I wandered wand-ered back up town." Moser's mind i.s evidently unbalanced, unbal-anced, and he was probably insane when the deed wbs committed. To the police he said he did not care what became be-came of him, as he had nothing to live for. |