Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-27
ACQUITTED OF THE MURDER,
A Denver Jury Discharges the
Slayer Of Efile Moore.
TRANslToRY FRENZY THE PLEA.
Young Henry Plays the Impassioncd
Lover on She Witness stand
The Public Not Satisfied
With the Verdict.
Set at Liberty.

DENVER, Colo, Feb. 26-lSpccal Telc.
gram to the BEE The jury in the case Of
Charles f.. Henry, charged with the murder
of little Ehe Moore, the variety actress at
the Palace theater in this city on the night Of
the 18th of November last at AS this morn.
ing returned II verdict of acquttal after hav.
ing been out two hours. The case has been
on trial for three days and has created no
little interest among all classes Of people.
The verdict does not seem to be generally
pleasing, as the killing was doubtless cold
blooded and the public seems to think the de-
fendant should have at least received a light
punishment for his act. Henry, who is only
nineteen years of age, came here from Lon.
don, Ont, some time last October, and began
gambling, at which he was quite successful,
as at the time of his arrest he had about
S., 600 on his person. He visited the Palace
theater, variety in this lower part of tho
city, few days after his arrival, and fell
desperately in love with Efie Moore, n song
and dance girl. He made her acquaintance,
and in a short time asked her to marry him,
to which she consented. Their love affair
ran along merrily until few days before
the tragedy, when Henry learned that his
love was the wife of William Carroll, an
actor in the same theater, and it was also
told him that the girl was keeping
her marriage from him for tho
purpose of working him for all the money she
could. On the night of the 18th Henry went
to the theater, called Et1ie into box ordered
wine, and while she was sitting on his lap ac-
cused her of deceiving him. She acknowl-
edged that she had, but said she still loved
him and was willing to get divorce from
Carroll and marry him. Before any further
conversation coue take place, she was called
to the stage to do her turn,
after which she returned to the box, where
Henry was still sitting. She had hardly
closed the door before three shots rang out
through the theater, and when the attendants
entered Henry's box they found him standing
over Effie Moore, With u smoking revolver in
his hand while the girl lay upon the floor
dead, with one bullet through her heart,
another in her breast to the right of the
heart, and a third through her left hand.
Henry was arrested, jailed, and on prelim-
mary hearing was admitted to bail in the sum
lily in Ontario. He, however refused to
accept bail, and remained in Jail until the
trial. Some of the best attorneys in the city
were employed in the defense and the
plea Of "transitory frenzy was entered.
Henry, on the witness stand, cried and
talked with all the ardor of an impassioned
lover. He said he had always loved the girl,
and always would, and that while she was
sitting on his lap talking love, he suddenly
| felt Il ringing in his ears, dullness in his
head, and a pain as though struck on the
head with something hard and remembered
no more until he saw the girl lying at his feet
dead.
Henry's people are among the most promi-
nent in Canada, and his two brothers were
here during the trial. He will return homo
tomorrow. The parents of the dead actress
reside in Kansas City: