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Show ILLINOIS MUnDCIIER CAUGHT AT SALT LAKE. a.rnn.l )l,Mer, l,a KIIU.I III. ramllr la lllnnli, All.mplnlRulrlU an I r.ll ntii lln,U or Ibaliillre Kamiicl Moter, who murdered hi wife and children at llorton, Illlnoli, May 1J, nu taken Into cuttody at Halt Lake and glten Into tho hand of Illlnola ofllccr. Moter rndeatored to commit aulelde by ihoollng and end I hi inlicry, but lilt aim wa poor and hardly produced a lleib wound Sunday morning atdaybreak, Moter, wet to the akin and with blood atrcam-lng atrcam-lng from hi head, wn found on Second (south atrtet by Oflleer Palmer, who took him to the atatlon lie freely declared de-clared that he wat the murderer mi I that lie had ntteinptid aulelde a a conteUcnce He tald that ho hnd gone down to the bridge (iter the Jordan Jor-dan nt the Intersection of Second Houlh and Tenth Went, Mood on tho bridge, holhtrniclf and fell Into the water lhe wound, lioweter, na aulllctent only tollghtly iklu him and he got out ai quickly n ho could While the pollie wcro loth for a time to bellote the man a tlatemcnti, looking look-ing upon them at the ratlngtof a mind dlteated, a aenrchof hUdrlpplngclolh-lng hUdrlpplngclolh-lng rctcaled the fact that he had told the truth Moter a crime waa n retoltlng one Ho tell the ttnry aa fnltowa "I killed my wife, one ion of ictcn yean, another of Qto year and tho baby of tho family, aged eight mouth. 1 wat alone during a portion of the day, my wife and children hating gone to the Omlth church, of which her father I ono of tha preacher. Hhe crime home about n o'clock and went Into the cellar I followed her down ami ahot her Then 1 took my ohlctt boy Into tho bedroom and ihul him I called the next boy to me, told hi m to go Into the pantry, I think It wat, when I hot him alio aa he turned hit back toward me I could nol do It with hlra looking look-ing at mo, you know Thin came the baby 1 took one ahot nt her at the lay lu the bed, but I do not bellote that I lilt her the lint time, to I flicd twice more Ihcn I knew that the wat dead "Then I went down Into the cellar where tho body of my wife wa Ij lng and cotcred It up with a piece of old carpet, I threw tome clothe oter the bodlexif the children, tearing them where they fell, locked up the home and itartcd away, "I rcashctl here Thurtday morning Latt night I went down to the rlter, tood on tho bridge, ahot mjielf In the bead and fell In The cold water retired re-tired me and I crnwIedouL When I found out thai tho wound wat not fatal, I concluded to try a(,alu, but could nol find myplJol Bo 1 wandered wand-ered hack up town " Motirt mind I evidently unbalanced, unbal-anced, and ho wa probably lntaue when the deed wa louimlttnl To tho police liu intd he did not cure whnt became be-came of lit ui. at he hid nothing to tiro for |