Show THE AMISH MURDERS I RD Why y Mosher His Bin Wife and andS andl l S Children j I Samuel Sa uel Moser os oser the confessed murder murderer r I Ier er el of f his wife and three children near I Pekin Ills who was captured in Salt I Jake City last ast summer soon after lila his I II quadruple crime will be brought to trial within two weeks His only de defence I tense fence will be what he claimed when taken into custody here that he be was as asI I driven to commit the fourfold murder 1 t to escape the persecutions of the Amish religion rell n to Whim weird ird sect In Illinois I he and his family belonged belon ged On the eve i of his trial Moser oser had bad made a state tate statement statement 1 ment which is substantially the me ame mei i as he lie made here Five years yea ago h ho bf says s S he was expelled from the Amish church because he wed affection for lor forbIn his bIn little boy and the church chunh doctrines hold that there can be no love exchanged e ed between mortals which is not idol idolatry idolatrY atry As e a result he was as ostracized ostracised by bythe bythe bythe the church people while his wife and IId children remained members finally he took his family to t live on a farm attn in Minnesota ota but the Amish church people wrote letters to the wife and induced her to flee i Um Jim im nd mid return Ith the children to Illinois He followed follo and settled down again 8 ain to tu a life w he be says lyS was abhorrent to him h m because e be could Uld not have neve the th love lOye of ot his hie k family Quarrels began bigan between b hint hIm and amid obis lila i wife and finally he says he decided ded to toi i murder obis lila whole family and JaM Jast May Kay Mayhe Mayhe he shot the baby in its cradle and die dis hi wife and two othar oth In un ca S n children U S before taking llight 11 t to Salt lA Lat k His Hb I only excuse la Is laI IsI I 1 wanted w to see my wife and d babies I better off Their religion Would weald not edt let me love them nor no r permit them U to t have affection for tor me so wiry why houd i they live Jive I |