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Show OFFICER'S WIFE SHOT TO DEATH JSSHOTOBS Five Soldiers at Camp Grant Sought in Connection With Killing ROCKFORD, 111., June 16. Five soldiers sol-diers of Camp Grant, near here, were sought today in connection with the shooting lo doath early Monday of Mrs. Maude Lucille Moss, wife of Cap lain Leroy II. Moss, camp utilities officer, of-ficer, and daughter of Colonel Bion J. Arnold, pioneer electrical engineer. The entire camp military intelligence force was seeking to establish whether Mrs. Moss was murdered or accidentally accident-ally killed. Report Is Heard. That Mrs. Moss had been shot was not known until the automobile in which she was riding with her husband and four friends had gone a half mile. The party just had passed the small group of soldiers, it was said, when a sharp report was heard. It was then thought the motor had misfired. Striking Strik-ing a bump in the road Mrs. Moss, who had been asleep on the rear seat between be-tween Mr. and Mrs. William V, Mc-Creight, Mc-Creight, slumped forward, Mr. and Mrs. McCrelght. believing her still asleep, reached forward to aid her and then it was found that she had been wounded. Husband .Driving. Captain Moss, who was driving, rushed to the camp l)ase hospital hut Mrs. Moss died a short time after reaching there. Captain Moss said he believed the shooting was accidental. In November, 1904,' Mrs. Moss was lost for 24 hours on Pike's Peak and with her brother and a friend was rescued res-cued from freezing only after a frantic j search. . |