Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-19
ROLLING-FORK HORROR.

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ROLLING-FORK HORROR.
Additional Particulars from the Scene
of the FiendIsh Act Of Murder
and Arson.
The Bodies as They We're Found, and
the Scene OF TIE Horror-COr-
Oner's Jury Verdict.
From the jackson Miss Pilot.l
On Tuesday night, the fourth instant,
the store of Jesse Moore, at Rolling
Fork, Issaquena county, as stated in a
former issue of the Plot, was destroyed
by fire, together with the contents. The
following additional particulars were
given our reporter ON the ground by Mr..
]. F. Coker, father-in-law of Jesse
Moore, deceased: On Wednesday morn
ing
THE CHARRED RE8lAINS
of Jesse Moore, Mrs. Moore his wife),
Joseph Gauchat, clerk, and Willie
Jeans, aged ten years, and adopted child
of Mr. and Mrs. Moore, were taken from
the ruins. Mr.. Joe Ring, brother of g.
F. Ring, of the firm of Ring {; Muller,
of Vicksburg, is missing, which is made
more mysterious from the fact that not a
particle of his remains could be found,
or any portion of a fine stem-winding
watch, knife, OF anything else that he
was known to possess by which the fact
could be established that his remains
shared the same fate as the other four.
Jesse MOore's skull showed
SIGNS OF VIOLENCE,
having cut over the left ear extend
ing te within half an inch of the eye.
His body was found in horseshoe bent
position, head turned from his wife.
The head, legs and arms of Mrs. Moore
were completely destroyed, and the
boy was so charred that il was impOssi-
bic TO discover any marks of violence,
had there been any. This was also
the case with the bodies of Will
lies Jeans and joseph Gauchat.
Little Willie's bed was at the foot of Mr..
and Mrs. Moore's. When his remains
We're found his head was lying near the
door leading into the store. This being
the case, does it not look reasonable to
suppose that Willie awoke while the
fiends were numbering Mr.. and Mrs.
Moore, and, in his alarm,
STARTED FOR THE CLERKS ROOM
for safety; and that upon his reaching
the door they silenced him with a blow?
IL would not be fair to say that the fire
might have aroused him unless we say
the same of the three others, whose
remains were, found upon the ground
after the fire in about the same positions
they usually occupied IN their beds.
THE CoRoNER's JURY
returned a verdict to the effect that the
remains found were those of Jesse
Moore and wife, Joseph Gauchat and
Willie Jeans, and that they came to
their death by violence. Nr. ]. +.
COker, the father of Mrs. Moore, was
absent at Vicksburg at the time Of the
fire, having taken a raft tnere some ten
days previous, but returned Immediately
with your reporter upon
LEARNING THE SAD INTELLIGENCE
from a Mr.. Parberry, who came to
Vicksburg in a skif for that purpose.
Rolling Fork Landing is on the Little
Sunfiower rver, at the mouth af short
stream which connects the Sunf1ower
with Deer creek. There was but one
other house at this point, about one hum
dred and fifty yards distant-that of
Mr.. Coker. Mrs. COker was disturbed
by means unknown TO her, and on
awakening and proceeding to the gallery
Of her house,
SAW THE STORE or HER soN-IN-LAw IN
FLAMES
from one end to the other, just falling
in. Soon after MT. Parberry came upon
the scene, being attracted by the light.
They We're the only persons present or
seen during that fatal night. On the
day before the FIRE two men rode up TO
the store-one having light bay horse,
and the other a sorrel-dismounted, en-
tered the store, one of them even going
into the bedroom of the proprietor. Be
ing strangers, and assuming such un-
wonted liberty, A-r. Moore ordered them
from the premises, since which time
they have not been seen or heard from.
AXES FOUND.
There were two axes found after the
fire, in the debris, near the bodies,
which were not recognized as having
belonged to the general stock of the es-
tablishment.
THE PROPERTY.
Mr.. Coker says that the property be-
lOnged solely to his daughter, Mrs.
Moore; that Mr.. Ring, of Viclzsburg,
claimed to own an interest in the busi-
ness, but was not partner, in fact.
Robbery was undoubtedly the principal
object in view by the fends. Being In
terTupted,
THEY MURDERED TEE INMATES,
then fired the building, to hide all trace
Of their bloody work. No clue has as
yet been obtained to tie perpetrators Of
the horrible crime. The name of a
well-known thief, who was seen five
miles from the point about the time OF
the fire, and who has been missing since,
was sent to Vicksburg last Wednesday
by Captain George Bookout, Of the Gas
coDade. The building and contents
were insured for seven thousand dollars,
in several companies. The stock car
ried was about ten thousand dollars.
The National Delegation TO Vienna.
WASHINGTON, March 1s.-The fol-
lowing persons were appointed by the
LCoA0CAll ~ HAAG4AA LAC ACAA4a EAAll0A-
ton: Practical artisans-Lym man Bridg-
es, of Illinois, and George 4. Stanberry,
Of Ohio. Scientific. Lawrence Smith,
of Kentucky, and John A. Warder, Of
Ohio. A large number OF honorary
commissioners to the exhibition have
also been appointed.
A cotton factory, with capital of one
hundred thousand dollars, Is TO be inn
mediately erected at Trenton, TenDes-
see. Why can't Memphis follow suit?
Advices FROM Alexandra, Egypt, in
form us Of the death of Mr.. @. e.
Hunt, a msjor of the Egyptian army,
AID formerly an officer on board the
confederate cruiser SHENANDOAH. While
ont riding from his residence, at BHlke-
ley Station, Ramiey, he vas thrown