Show z ILLINOIS MURDERER SURRENDERS TO POLICE Samuel Sal 11 Il Moser o er Who Slew His Wife and Family is Locked Dp Up Tells Ml All tile the Details of His Ghastly Crime Deed Was Done in Horton Last Sunday Morning I killed my wife and three babies as fast as a I could empty my revolver and ani andI I am not sorry I 1 lain am glad flad they are ar at rest Samue Samuel r made m d that statement at police pollee headquarters he q yesterday It It might have been the statement of ot a madman but it Is I to clearly a truth uth Moser murdered his family u Ws hS own own home hume ne nea r Horton His flis n s last Jut Sunday F a afew afew few minutes after ti v r from church c and after covering their h bodies fled from the cen of ufo nil hig terrible crime clime An aimless course landed him himin himin himIn in Salt Lake last Thursday and an att to end his hl misery brought him within reach rea of the law and justice He lies on a cot at police poUce headquarters his face burled buried In a blanket His moans round throughout the old build building b buildIng nd ing while at his side sits a policeman watching his every movement From the confession made by Moser Moiler to the police and the newspapers for he seems anxious to talk of f his crime it is evident e dent that the man was I Samuel Moser cal Q eu t of his religion l ti n She Se wu r f c tIie from rom which i he ne had apostatized He JIe hates ha the religion r k Sand and her devotion dev Uon to It Jt t caused c Used him to t slaughter his wife and nd babes babest ba s sC t C v Picked p ck d Up Up by Palmer P I i n j walking his beat at S yesterday yest r ay morning when he be sw Maser Meser West We t T Temple on Second d South So o th fh Blood was wa M k t tk down don the mans face from a bullet b wound in his forehead and his clothes cloths were bloodstained else the probabilities are that the officer would not have no noticed noticed noticed him Palmer went up to him and asked what had bad caused the wound on his head At first he seemed reluctant to answer the th question but after put putting putting putting ting a few more queries the th officer er learned that the man had tried tiled to kill himself A few moments more and Moser r had told his whole story st ii with all its awful details He sad he had bad killed his hj ii wife and three children hildren only last Sunday and had started west He reached Salt Lake he said on Thursday Thur day and secured a 8 room at the Harris Huris block West i Second South He had purchased eda a paper the Chicago and reading the details of his crime had been unable longer to stand stana the agony ny d he had endured for almost a v Week eek p Taking his pistol the man went to 10 Fishers brewery which is on the bank of ot the Jordan river near where it i crosses Third South at 3 yes yesterday yesterday morning He sat on the rail raU of the bridge and deliberately putting the th pistol to his right temple fired He lie fell backwards Into the stream where there the water is about four feet deep but the bullet wound was wa slight sligh t and scrambling to his feet he waded out It was his intention to finish the deed ded d d dand and he went up on the bridge again n after his weapon but it had fallen into the water Then he started for tor the tile city had visited his room about day daylight days daylight light and had then met the officer s related his remarkable tale talethe talethe the officer found it hard to believe belleve and nd I sIzed the man up as u a But they went to police pollee headquarters Moser i Offering no resistance but talking of his crime cd me continually He was searched at atthe attile tile the station and the inside pocket of his coat at was found a letter addressed addre ed d to the police Letter L to Police It reads as being written written In Ina Ina t ta a very peer peor hand and nd half hAf the words being misspelled I wish to say to the people of this world if there is any truth in Bible so by my Judgment you are in your last hours It appears to me that mans doing is only for that I mighty I do not say y this to alarm Salt Lakers in no way wao as this thia city I like Uke and if I thought I would be safe sate and never come known that I commit I the crime I would have to pull through but I think there are enough bad people for to shine onto I If I could have got around the theY pen elty of Death and could gotten friends and satisfaction sat I should have been content with ray mf nt days work ork and aDd meals with a good appetite ap etite as long lon as it reached before I could agre a rc to the therul rule rul 3 or ruin creede of people of my home I choose to dye de I had been under this CUI C f years with I no show of a change agreeing to this order t If my 1117 wife could have content her herself herself herself self outside of community of these peg peo people I IpIe pIe and would had respected me as a husband by depriving some of those tho people Idea this U 8 crime had been saved 1 but there relatives kept her from fro n do da doing doing ing so 0 and forced there religion n how however however however ever that he should esteem e teem i i more mere than me it is a hard matter to ex express e express 1 press all aU their and rule they I 3 keep there children e ignorant of things thin gS of these world by not letting them I have music and enjoyment en as many wished shed to have they raise them ig I In n pertly and after they become I old oid many are no not fit itt for law and rule of this Wend I 1 beg to say sa to the th peo pe j I IpIe 4 pie of this world to destroy ana anai clean cleanthe cleanthe I Ithe the fact of the earth of all such sueh min in inister t ister interferers between man and I 4 wife I II I I am a murderer of Ills from Mor lor Morton lorton Morton ton Tazewell Co Wire to my father Ben Moser Co Ill III that the th i b bod of there son on Sam was found I 1 Idid Idid I Idid did not that they want to see me any more I 13 the letter to the tre police foUce a acard acari card cari was as found being in the same seme me en tn envelope envelope Upon it WItS was scrawled My iy name is Sam Moser Investigate Har liar HarJ J ris house West Second South op opposite opposite Post office i t Officer Palmer went at once to the Harris house and learned learn d that Moser had been staying there thero since Thurs Thursday Thursday day His Hs room was as ransacked and arid the th following letter 1 ett Or addressed to the Pe Pc Peoria Peoria oria orla Ill Herald was found fo nd Editor Peoria Herald I do not want to make myself better as I am I know I J deserve the roper but as asa a good many people know me in Tazewell coUnty I think most people p could make out 0 ut what hat caused me m e to bring such sue h dark da and mournful days to t J their especially friends If you do not feel to publish sen sens It to my B Moser Bloom ington Ill Salt Lake City Utah May Friday 1 U 18 1900 t J see in the paper of my deeds and so I am ready to die dle It circles in my I heart that perhaps you would like to know w where I am and what caused me meto meto to do such a deed I can die satisfied I after I know that my family are in rest To part I did not want vant and to I live as n I did was nd nO satisfaction to tome tomer me mer r family I II I did not see any chance charnie chan e or show for change chang unless agree to Church order Older I I whereby by I r gather choose to die and take tak my family along If only so much had been heen een granted that I could went home with my family and had satis satisfaction sa faction and pleasure I perhaps could have been contented but as it was my wite as ag It appeared to me was most of ot the time In m sorrow and in the latter days jays of our we had more or less trouble or disagreement and dear little boys begin to notice it A short time Ago we Had trouble and It appeared to tome tome tome me it hurt dear little ones but before I would be ruled by my wife I choose Ito to dye with them What is this life lif worth if there Is no pleasure or enjoy enjoyment ment ent If I went home or to say to my friends and enjoy myself and wife had not appeared with singers of church or these Uiese religious matters I think I would be living amongst you today but buta as Sit it was I had no good or r enjoyment of wife and children and they th had no good of myself Whoever says it Is all my fault why did you back slide I wish to say that Lord God my judge that man at Gridley y and those who agreed with him I are ate perhaps some cause I have talked with Doctors Towers and experienced men but they expressed as not feeling able to step between family affairs are th worst and or hard hardest eat est thing in this wound Husbands should respect their wiles and know that thye the are the weak should do the same sam same and should make a home bright and happy Deeds at Gridley cause or are root of this evil eil J 1 would not nr t minded hard work and had never more but I needed It I only coul cou associate 8 with my friends I did not want any more of church go ily to another church without my fam family family famIly I Wound Not Dangerous While the th e police were puzzling over I the weird letters of the murderer a 8 doctor was ras examining hh in fury It Tt was apparent that the wound was not dangerous the pistol having Det held at an outward o angle and the ball go goIng goIng goIng Ing in above and to the right of the eye having come out In the thc middle of the ad A bandage was wrapped around it lt and Moser began b gan to o talk r He seemed demented at intervals and sobbed at other times Hi Iii talk was sometimes rational and he seemed to realize perfectly the he po position position he be was in At times time a demon demoniacal demoniacal grin grill would set on ott his features and he would look Inquiringly at everybody who entered tl tt e door After he had eaten something and when approached he formed a picture entirely different He was lying on a acot acot acot cot in the th sergeants room face down downward downward downward ward and sobbing Remorse was in indicated indicated Indicated In every line of his face in spite of ot his claim that he is not sorry When spoken to he raised up on one arm seemingly pleased to have some one oneto oneto oneto to tak with He Jie says s ys he is 30 years old but he would readily be taken for 40 His eyes Continued on Page Pago 2 q I Continued from pagel p are brown and deep set though larger than those of ot the average man He H B wears ves no beard He is probably five feet eight or nine inches tall tail and looks every ever inch a 3 farmer Maybe Mayb you know kow what the community is said Moser It I is a religion that drives drive men crazy The community lives around Tazewell county count in Illinois and my farm was right in the middle of them three miles mies from Horton Horton They dont believe beleve in any worldly pleasures pleure They give up everything Dancing Dancing is a crime so is singing and going to the theatres is a terrible sin with them One day in church 1 I had my 8 baby In my my arms ars and be before before before fore the services serice opened the minister turned on me and called cled me an idola idolater tor ter said I 1 thought too much of my child and less les of or the church I 1 was angered I swore I would not have anything more to do with wih a religion that teaches any man not to care car for his family and soon son after that that is two or three years ago I 1 prevailed upon i my wife to leave leae I was unhappy In the community and hated the re religion ligion 1 We stayed sta ed away and lived happily for a while but they tey sent for her and influenced her ler to go back into the community I would not go at the time but a year ye wore on and ani I could I no longer stay sty away from the children When Wen I 1 got back I 1 was wa hated by the people They did everything they I could to break us up I could not take friends to my own house on my w s outs account and and we were constantly at a aThe I IThe The children knew kew that their moth mother er and father were not living happily but their ther young minds know the theren reason ren They were growing gowing up in their ther mothers religion We even take our meals together I 1 saw only one way out of it i That Th i ito was wag to send them all aU into eternity and a peace pea I killed kled my wife and three ba babies be bios bies ble as a fast fut as I could empty my re va revolver re volver and I am not sorry I am glad tad they are at rest ret Story Stor of the Crime Cre It I was wa last lat Sunday morning moring M jr 13 1 The children had ha been to church with their mother moter and I Iwa Iwas was brooding over my trouble They got back about about dusk and ad she went down cellar celar to cook co supper and sent the children out hi ip hithe Inte the te yard I went after ater her down the stairs and as a soon as she turned to toward toward toward ward me I 1 Moser here paused for the first frt time in his narrative end and ud buried his is face facein f c cin in his ha bar 10 s i 1 He wept silently for a afew afew afew few mom moms then raised up and re resumed resumed resumed his hiSt t ry r Well W l I 1 shot her he went vent on It It only took one shot shot She and she knew who did it only for a a second Then the boy boythe the boy came in an adI r I took him into the bedroom SI I 1 shot him there tere before be b knew who did It H t Then I sent the youngest boy after a bucket of water water and as he went Into the t I 1 fired fred again agin I shot him twice cuse he moved s U went into the bedroom again and ad the girl was wa lying there tere I shot her three times because the little mite stand suffering I had made a complete job of It All Ail 1 because bus I stand their I 1 intended to kill ki myself when t I got away from there tere but I would not die le in the community comm I covered hodies bo bodi h up with carpets carpet and dresses d ess s sand and locked them up in the house houe I left left them tem as a they were for I want vant them to find them all an together Then I walked over to Tremont and anda a took the train trin for Bloomington Blo but I Iju just ju t stopped there the long lang log enough to get geta geta a a ticket to Kansas Kansa City and when I got there I got another one ne to Denver and then to Colorado Springs Oh I care where I went to and ard the first think I 1 knew k cw I was vas here in Salt Lake Thursday morning The papers paper traveled faster than me it seems seel like I went vent into a news stand last night and ad gOt g a and read about the murder of the Moser family and I t stand it any longer I went o out t to the he river I 1 shot myself and fell fel in Everything was just jUt as I wanted wante it to be only the bullet bulet take its it course I would to God it i had had gone Into my brain Then The I could forget all al this trouble for that is all aU Ive Ive got gt to live lve for I sup suppose suppose suppose pose thel hang hang me ma Well Wel Im Im not trying to get away from it i but I would like to db do It i myself Tm Im m in my right mind now anyway anyay Fisher risher Heard the Shot ShotA Shot ShotA A Fisher of the brewery brewer near where Moser made his attempt at suicide heard the te shot and fixes the te time at 3 a a m rn He paid little atten attention attention tion ton to It U however thinking it was wa some drunken man out ouI on the road Sergeant Burbidge visited the spot yesterday afternoon and searched for gun but ut he could not find it itin ItIn itIn in the four feet of water It I was a calibre caire Chief Hilton Hiton would not have Moser put In jail jai last lat night night fearing fear ng he might make another and more successful at attempt attempt attempt tempt to destroy himself himsel He was watched by an officer but remained quiet all aU night night of Tazewell Taz wel county were at once notified if of that t th finding of Moser Mos r and Chief Hilton 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