Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-09
Ne DEsERyED DEATI.
Mark Moore Lynchsd BY q Tsnsss-
80 Mob.
ONE MANS NUMEROUS GRIMES.
hAs Committing 4 Series Of Murders,
kameIess Crimes and Terrifying
vilIaiaies, Ne b hsag
to Stout Tres.

OCKLL, Mss, June s.-Eighteen mo0tllS
ago Mark o. Moore settled at the James
Maury place, on wahalAk creek, nine miles
northwest of this town. He was sccom-
panied BY his wife and several children. be-
sides two girls, the children Of his wife BY
a former hssband deceased. Moore never
gained the confidence and es,sem Of hin
neighbors, ss rumors were plenty that hs
was q refugee from Alabama, where he was
wanted BY the officers Of the law on serious
charges. His very coun,enance and man
ners .err enough to satisfy all tha, he
was villain Of the worst type.
shsssing His wife.
A week ago last Saturday morning. the
3ls, inst. Moore went to Shuqualak, where
he became intoxicated. He went home
early. and TO all appearances in the hest Of
humor with ap his family. After eating
supper he Was sitting with his wife and
children in his room, when without word
he drew pistol and shot his
wife twice. One ball passed through
the feshy portion Of the upper
right arm, and the other entered the right
side Just above the hip, passing through and
lodging against the skin over the left hip
bone. Not satisfied with this, he drew his
knife and stabbed her twice in the breast
and cut long cash extending nearly across
her stomach he then kicked and beat her
out of the house She nan to the woods
and tried to go to John Williams, n neigh
Dor living nearly u mile and half away.
From loss Of blood she became so weak that
she did not reach Williams until 1880
O'Clock r. N Sunday, having laid out in the
woods all night.
A Namrir.s Cvtss~.
After driving her from home, Saturday
night Moore, with his pistol cooked attack.
ed Miss Annie Thomas, his stepdsughter.
and committed q namelcss outrage upon
her person. He kept her locked up in the
room with him until O'Clock r. y. Sunday.
when she made her escape, and went 70 Mr..
Aliens. Moore followed her W Aliens and
with the pistol forced her to go hack homo
with him, and repeated his outrage upon
her. Before Moore reached there, Mrs.
Moore had been brought homo by Mr.. Will
iams and other neighbon, More did not
seem 10 realize the enormity VI his crimcs,
bu, made indecent proposals to Mas
Thomas in the presence a the neighbors
who were assembled there 10 do what they
could for his wife. Being questioned, Miss
Thomas told all about the treatment sha
had received at Moore's hands.
Armed to the Teeth.
Moore was armed TO the teeth 40 10
speak, having a doublebarrcl shotgun. .
pair OF pistols bowie knife, aud = razor on
his rcrs0n. He did not seem To wish TO do
further harm to anyone, but stayed about the
house until night, when he wen, Ia Mr.
Weaver, his hrothcrin.lAw, who hives on
the same place and about $50 yards from
Moorcs house He wen, to bed, and in
little time was sound asleep About nine
o'clock party Of men came and took him
out OF the house and carried him about
quarter Of a mile away and hanged him.
nis body was found Monday morning hang
ing to the limb of tree on the rOsd leading
To Wahalak. The work was neatly done
with n pair Of cotton Plo~-lines tied
together. Thus he paid the penalty for .
lite full Of wrong doings. Among the
crimes Of which be WAS guilty. are the fol-
lowing: A, the age Of II be- and an older
brother killed three men In n town in Ken
tucky where he was raised OF this he vas
acquitted He then killed the town mar
shal Of Shelby, Tenn, for which he fed the
State to save his neck and went TO Texas.
where he killed another man. He had 10
leave there, 30 he went to Louisiana, where
be added another victim to the lis, Of mur.
dcrs be had committed. lie then went 10
Sumter county, Alsbams, where he became
one Of the leaders in the kuklux klan. and
il il said that many poor negro bit tbs
dust TO sstisfy his cravings for human
blood. News Of the lynehing has just been
received by courier.