The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-21
An OLD CRIME RECALLED.

Grand Central hotel Tuesday VA thu
hnal act i'm ono of the most d~eplorable
trasedies which over happened In this
ountry
In 1872 there were married 1T the Cos
mopolitan hotel, this city. Mr.. William
Moore To Mas Hattie Dell Robbins. a
few days later the happy pair went tn Mr..
Moorc's ranch. ON the Benton road. and
began housekeeping and occupying hem
selves with such pursuits as usually per.
tain to r~anchinG; I'm addition tn which
they kept a station, or stopping place, for
the accommodation Of travellers going to
and from Helena and Benton. They had
many friends, were well liked, and grew
prosperous, and in the course of
twelve years had accumulated prop
During these years three chil-
dren were born to them. and their domes-
desired. The children had now arrived
mt an Y when IL was necessary tn send
them to school, and il was decided to do
horn, u distance of eight or ten miles. and
il was determined that Mrs. Moore should
remove with the children to Dearborn and
send them To school, while Mr.. Moore re-
manned to take care of the ranch. This
arranRcIment was carried out i'm the fall
of 1ss5, Mr.. Moore visiting his family once
Il was usual, as il is in all country dis
tricts, for the teacher tn board among the
Mrs. Moore had established herself i'm her
applied for hoard and lodging, which was
Not long after this, Mrs. Moore
and the teacher became the subject of
scandal and gossip for the nei9hborhood.
The and wife did not get along
very well ; still, there was no open rupture.
This state Of affairs continued till early
one morning il was discovered that
IRE. and the iiamas spread so
rapidly that IL was impossible to save
anything except a. sewing machine and "a
81 A. AlAo n1 S1a
secured another house and remained
there. sending the children To school till
about the first Of February. when, at the
the children to the ranch. In the mean
time, however, the hotel belonging to A.
burned to- the ground, and j. X. Beidier
was summoned to find out, IL possible, the
perpetrator OF the deed, for that il was of
doubt. He went To Dearborn, ostcnsibly
on n fishing excursion. and soon discov-
cred that the teacher was the inccndiary.
but for some reason he was not prose-
Before leaving the Dearborn there had
the nusSanS and wifi. on a.co,nt of the
school teacher. and he. siding with the
wife, gave her. whether at her request or
carried with her ON returning to the
The next heard Of Mr.. and Mrs. Moore
securing "a divorce, and placed their chill
dren at ST. vincent's academy. Mr..
Moore. who was dev"tediy attached to his
his attorneys, and they returned home to
the action of the court Oh the case,
which was docketed for the March term.
On the 25th day II February. 1856 a
couple of travellers stopped at the house.
boeiies Of Billy Moore and his wife
stretched upon the floor. Mrs. Moore was
lying in h doorway competing the din.
and office, her face resting ON
her right hand in an attitude of repose.
The body of Mr.. Moore lay on it's face i'm
d@crneath. a discharged shell ON the fioor,
and u tiattcncd bullet lying at his feet.
On the following day the coroner visit:
been Disturbed. The Bodies lay exactly
as when first discovered. There was no
Witness tn give testimony as To the actual
had taken place, and the theory
sn"s fMHr Mrs. M""re drew the re~oivsr. which %is
the teacher had presented to her, ON her
husband. who sriatched the weapon from
where s'i Il w @." found. fully loaded: s1";
while he was doing this the wife, evil
IDENTITY distracted with passion, rushed
chester rifle was kept, seized il, and as
her husband turned. fired at him. the b,l-
let presumably entering the narior hoor.
feet in his his breast. A struggle for
the weapon then ensued, AS was evil
denccd from the disorslcrly state of
the room, the center table and chairs
being knocked over. Obtaining pos
session of the gun the usban shot his
wife in the side. She staged toward the
office and fell in the doorway. Moore
went to her almost dying from the wound
in his breast and cndcavorcd To raise her
in u last embrace, the dying woman's
bloody finger marks being plainly visible
across his shoulders. He then stood mp
held the muxxle of the gun To his temple
and fired. the hall passing through his
temple and out at the top of his head.
when he fell dead ON the floor.
The wound in Moore's breast was n
fatal one. the bullet having passed en-
tircly through the body and lodged under
the skin i'm the small of the hack.
The jury rendered "a verdict that the de-
ceased came to their deaths by Runshot
wounds, whether by their own hands or
the hands OF others, the jury were unable
to state.
The school teacher who In said tn have
fired Mrs. Moorc's dwelling. Milot's hotel.
and been the direct cause of his direful
tragedy, was j. G.. Mcdonnell, who died
the dealt. of n suicide at the Grand Cen
trail hotel on the evening Of December IL,
1859.
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