The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-28

am just on the edge of the farm. and you must
not 20 ND there. It would tear up everything,
and could do you no possible good"
She still protested that she would 60 up to the
house, and clear Cora out. / had picked up a
stick, and was whiting with knife, the blade
OF which was one and half inches long. She
had small limb in her hand, and. when she was
80 vehemently insisting that she would go up to
the house and clear things out, reminded her
OF the liaison she was engaged in at Eigin,
me with the limb she held in he her
mana. threw up nv hand 10 "ara
on the blow. and the knife struck her in the left
sioe OF the throat She screened out that
nad killed her. | grasped her and threw her
from me and she fell violently to the ground
leaned over her and found the blood was flowing
profusely from the wound In the neck. l knew
then that it was all up with me sooner or later
Tor believed murder will out" pushed the
knife into the wound to its full length. and then
considered a long time what disposition to make
of the body. l was almost paralyzed that the
deed had been done. ard the moment afterward
would have given the world TO recall 1t. / then
undressed the body and carried it to the we'll
and dropped it in without thought that the
clothing would net be as secure from observation
there rs elsewhere. I dropped the clothing in
after the body. By this time the moon had just
risen. sat by the well and pondered over the
matter unsil the first signs of daylight began to
appear, when walked out on the road again
100 feet / then turned and came back to the
house. approaching from the west or Dorchester
side, and stepped to the west bedroom window,
where Cora and Ella Molloy were sleeping to-
gether.
Graham had lived at Fort Wavne, Ind. where
he married the woman he killed. For some of
his attractions of the statutes he was twice sem
fenced to the penitentiary at Michigan City.
While there Mrs. Molloy became interested in
the man, and when his last term expired made
a effort m rafarun him Cho him nplo
ment, and while thus engaged he became ac-
quainte6 with Cora Lee, Mrs. Molloy's adopted
daughter. He proposed marriage assuring the
two women that his first wife had secured d.
yorce while he was in prison. This she had
done. but they were afterward remarked. Mrs
Moiloy and Cora Lee were satisfied that Graham
was free of matrimonial entanglements, and
Cora was permitted to marry Graham. The first
wife, who had been deserted in Fort Wayne,
soon learned of Graham's last marriage, and a
prosecution followed, in Springfield, for bigamy.
Graham, to free himself of this trouble,
indrced his first wife to leave Fort
Wayne and meet him In st. Louis.
whence he was to take her to Springfield
and erdeavor to reach some solution Of the
trouble. After leaving st. Louis Mrs. Graham
was never again seen alive by anyone who knew
her. Graham killed her to free himself of the
prosecution for bigamy. Her relatives agitated
Springfield authorities made search and found
her body in the abandoned well on the Molloy
farm. Graham and Cora Lee were at once ar
rested for the crime, and Mrs. Molloy was taken
into custody as she stepped from the train 1t
Springfield on her return from professional
tour in Illinois The preliminary examination
resulted in the holding of Graham as principal
and the two women as accessories. Graham
made several statements that implicated the two
women, bat his love Of notoricty evidently in
duced him to write the letters published, and
bat little credence is given them. as the man was
entirely unreliable and never told the truth if he
could Ia any way avoid it. #