The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-03
MRS. MOLLOY AND CORA LEE.
Both Women Arraigned as Accessories
in the Murder of Sarah Graham,
And Committed to Prison Without Bail-Gra-
ham Preparing Another Statement Which
Will Soon Be Ready for the Public.

Will Soon Be Ready for the Public.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
SPRINGFIELD, No., March Mrs. Emma
Molloy and Cora Lee were arraigned before
Justice Savage this morning as accessories to
the murder of Sarah Graham. They pleaded
not guilty, and the examination was set for
| March To- They were both committed without
| bail.
Mrs Molloy and Cora Lee have been taken to
Bolivar for safe-keeping, while Graham re-
| mains in custody here. The revolver with which
the murder is supposed to have been committed
was found to-day. Two chambers are empty.
Mrs Molloy has written long letter to H. E.
Howell who is now one of her attorneys, giving
history of her association with George E.
Graham. She took an interest in the young
man and tried to elevate him morally. While
they were running paper at Washington, Kan.
she was away most Of the time lecturing. She
did all she could to keep Graham and his wife to-.
gether. The paper proved financial failure,
| and Mrs. Molloy came, in February, 1885, to
| Springfield. Graham soon came and married
| Cora Lee her foster daughter. She supposed
| the divorce with Sarah Graham was final and
did not dream of bigamy. She was lecturing in
| Kansas last January, when she was called home
to pay amounts involved in forgeres which
Graham said he committed while drunk. When
inquiries began to be made about the where
abouts of Mrs Graham she sent photograph by
r. L. McIlhany to Frank Erskne, in st. Louis.
She informed a passenger on the train on which
she arrived, on Sunday morning, that she had
been holding revival meetings at Peoria. Ill,
and received letter from Judge Baker, telling
her to return to Springfield at once, and defend
herself She started at once. not know
| ing the nature of the charges until arrested at
the depot.
A telegram from La Porte, Ind, says: Frank
Molloy, son of Mrs. Emma Molloy, came to
this city the latter part of January to attend
| school, and this morning correspondent held a
brief interview with him for the purpose of as
certainng what he knew regarding the career of
George E. Graham in Missouri He says he
knew little or nothing of what has occurred on
the Molloy farm since its purchase, having been
attending college at Marionville some twenty
miles distant He was at the farm in Septem-
Der, again on Thanksgiving, and spent Christ
mas there. On his Thanksgiving visit he was
accompanied by schoolmate, and while there
they visited the sink-hole where the dead body
of HRS. Graham was found. Young Molloy pro-
posed lighting some paper and dropping it into
the hole for the purpose of ascertanng its depth.
Graham became very, much displeased at the
proposal. and it was not done. Further than
this he appears to know nothing important con-
corning the case.
On Monday night Graham sent out the follow
| ing additional statement:
"Please state in your dispatches tonight that
/ now have another communication to make to
the public, which am preparing. In that state
| ment shall fully show the origin and operation
6of many things that now seem mysterious. 1t
will require several days steady work in its
preparation, and nothing will be advanced that
cannot be substantiated by the most clear and
direct evidence. II my statements, amply sup
ported by evidence. strike anyone, however
prominent. it is simply because they are in range
| of my fire. endeavored to do exact justice in
my statement of to-day, and had been treated in
different manner by party whose name has
| been mentioned In connection with this suit.
I should have gone to my grave without dl-
| vulging any of the sensational features of
the case; but the attempt of Mrs. Molloy by
her agents, to have mob close my mouth de-
/, termines me to speak. AS have said before, for
| myself I have nothing to ask, but, in order to
enable certain Christian (2l pecpls Tin several
| States to clear their consciences, shall give
| them an opportunity to make that ''open confes-
| sion" which is said to be good for the soule
While in the case for murder the whole truth has
been told yet in other circumstances l am in
clined to use Grants whisky-ring motto, and
say, Letno guilty person escape
GEO E. GRAHAM
SPRINGFIELD, No., March 1, 1886"
The above communication is evidently in
tended to convey the idea that he made some
erroneous statements In his confession of last
night relative to the innocence of Mrs. Mol!oy
and that he now proposes to correct them. It is
possible that they may refer to associate or
two of the evangelistic woman, in this city, as
we'll as others in the different sections where she
has sojourned during her itinerant and variega-
ted career.
GRAHAM'S ANTECEDENTs.
Graham's father was the late James E. Ora
ham. for many years engineer on the Pittsburg
Fit Wayne 8 Chicago railroad. running from Fl
Wayne to Chicago, where George was brought
up. The latter's stepmotber still resides in Fl.
considerable property by her late husband, the
engineer. George was cut off with very small
sum by his father. and is said to have cherished
very great resentment against his stepmother,
and to have made threats against her life. In
Fit Jayne George was a constable at one time,
and is crooked doings got him one-years term
in Ie penitensiary at Michigan City, where he
cot in with Mrs. Molloy, the temperance lee
turer. Grahaim profassed reformation, but peo-
pie in Fl. Wayne took no STOCK In him OF ms
Change of heart
Haro - re Rail-
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Trunk train which left here at 1A> With two an.
ming near Locks Mills last night. Ma =,