The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-12-16
SLAIN IN A FOREST.
A False Wife is the Cause of 4 Murder
Crowned With Autumn ave

CHARLEsrowN. West Virginia, December
12.-George Beasley was IL young farmer OF
Clay county, honest, upright, but poor.
A short time ago he married q young
woma of his n~eighborhood, Miss Jerusha
James, who was one of the most fa%scinat-
ing and beantiful girls in the county. She
had suitors by the dozen. but loved the
young farmer, and, Notwithstanding the
opposition OF her family, persisted in mar
rying young Beasley. They were too poor
to go to housekeeping. but as they could
Mrs. James, they both went to work, the
vie at housekeeping for a family, while
Beasley found employment on a farm.
Among the unsuccessful suitors for the
hand of Mrs. Beasley. while single, was
Henderson Moore. After the marriage Of
the young couple and during their separa-
ton in trying to gain q livelihood Moore,
backed, as Beas|ey alleges, by his mother
in-law and Others, persisted in his atten-
tions, and by the aid OF these enemies OF
Beasley succeeded at last in alternating his
and talked to his wife, telling her that she
should not permit Moore's attentions, and
would have saved her had it not been for
the Vaccinations of enemies
HANGED BY HIS WIFE.
One night Moore, with a number OF 9TH
ers, among whom, as Beasley in his deposit
ton states, was an ex-officer OF the county,
ran Beasley off from his wife. threatening
to kill him, and induced his wife to leave
him, taking the woman to the house of one
| of the parties. One day, some time after
the occurrence, when Beasley went to the
place where his wife was staying to try and
induce her to go with him, a crowd OF men,
with Moore in the lead, took him and
bound him and tying a rope around his
n"ck, hung him to a rafter OF the porch.
His wife, now AS bad as the worst, was in
dnced to help pull him up. They let him
dowua after having nearly strangled him
and ordered him to leave the country at
the muzzle OF their guns.
A few days later, Beasley, learning that
his wife and Moore were seen in the woods
together. went to a neighbours house and
got a dn~uble-barrelled shotgun, and accom-
panied by two or three citizens went out in
search OF the guilty couple.
They overlook Moore and Mrs. Beasley
walking hand-in-hand through the forest.
The young woman had crowned her lover
with a wreath of richly-colored autumn
leaves. Moore held in his hand a richly
bound volume OF Byron's poems, from
which he read to Mrs. Beasley ,stopp ng now
and then to gaze with bold admiration in
her eyes. One Of Beasley's companions
told him to shout them 10Th as they
walked hand in hand, but Beaslev. not
withstanding all that had occurred, still
loved the woman, and begged her to leave
Moore and go with him. The woman re.
fused to do so and Moore abused and re-
viled him, and, dropping his hand to his
pocket, partially drew a pistol, when Beas
ley fired upon him, shooting him down on
the spot.
Moore was taken to his home. where he
lived a few days. Before he died he sent
for Beasley and begged his forgiveness for
the injury done him. Moore expressed a
wish that Beasley be not arrested, as he
had but defended his honor in the last ex-
t%re,nity. When picked up, after having re-
ceived his death wound, Moore was found
to have two revolvers upon his person.
Beasiey went to officers to give himself up,
but no one would arrest him until weeks
after Moore's death, when he was arrested
and brought here for trial. Interesting de-
~velopments are expected when the trial
takes place.