Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-28
\ PECULIAR CASE.
Heir to Property in New McNlco Found in
Boston-M jOers' Murder.

Gays tlle DOSlOn IlefaIu Ol lllU S-l lllSt.
In the Herald OF July u was published
brief dispatch stating that Deputy Sheril
Warren II. MOOers was shot and killed a
! Wallace. n. NJ, by a desperate nance
Joseph Chacha. The killing occurred OF
| the morning Of July 2G, Mooers attempt
! ed 10 arrest Chacha, who was q smallpO>
attendant and had been ordered to leave
! town, and refused to do SO. VI hen tAker
| by MOOCrS lie made violent struggle iOl
his liberty and fired three shots into ,
crowd, Wounding one man and killing the
deputy sheriff. The desperate was pur
sued TO the hills and riddled with bullets
by the iniuriated citizens. Since thi,
tragedy the following official card ha.
been published i'll the papers Of Portland
Me-:
WALLACE, \. NJ, July 26.-To Post.
master Palmer: Deputy Sheriff Warren
II. Mooers was shot and killed here this
morning while irving to make an arrest
His murderer died first from pistol shots
bv unknown parties. Mooer5 was ser.
geant in the llth Maine volunteers about
45 years old, and | think he came from
Portland. He did have Il married daugh-
ltl III lDOSlClls llC ilIo lIO lbllillN litit,
If you can give this Information to some
relative or friend YOU will oblige an old
comrade. lie has left property here
Yours respectfully,
S. II. EoGlRDrs, Late Postmaster.
To s. c. Dept, New Mexico, q. A. r.
Further information from Wallace
shows that the murdered sheriff was II
member OF company I of the llth Maine
regiment, and enlisted at EolOwell, and
the local paper Of IlaIlowelI, referring to
the leat T., says: "lIe will be well re-
memhercd by our citizens as living on
What is now known as the Bodwell farm,
where he was engaged in the milk busi-
ness, which he sold out, and moved away
about fifteen years ago"
The daughter referred 70 proves to he
Miss Carrie 4. Mooers OF this city. Miss
Mooers resides at II North avenue with
her uncle, Constable Albert S. Buswell,
the assistant keeper OF the city prison.
For the past two years she has worked
for Samuel Ward q Co., stationers, at Al
Franklin street. She Is an estimablp
young lady, and has the sympathy of all
who know OF her present trouble. 1t APP
pears that her father has lett considerable
property, and that an attempt is being
made to deprive her OF her rights. Tie
Young lady was seen by Il Herald repre-
sentative yesterday, and she tells a
straightforward and honest story of the
case. To thoroughly establish her identity
she says OF herself and her father;
II was born in Halowell, on Louden
Hill. | am not married as represented
IN the circular published about my
fathers death. Warren II. Mooers was
my father. am the only living daugh
ter. My mother is dead. Father was
born in Pittston, Me. His aye was
either 80 or ST years 43 makes him 10
years too young. We left Maine not
quite fifteen years ago, and my father left
Boston about eleven years ago. lie first
went to Kansas and then to New Mexico
| heard from him last about five years
ago. when he was in Wallace engaged
in the meat business. 1t has always
been mystery TO mo why | have not
heard from HIM oitener. | have sus-
perted that q man close to HIM has been
The cause. Father communicated with
me directly just before he settled down
in Wallace. The frontier postal accom-
modations were poor, and he had to send
his letters by an Indian, who delivered
them to man named John Morris, and
the latter mailed them to me. l had to
send my letters to Morris, who, i'll turn,
sent them by an indian and pony route
TO my father. | don't think this man
Morris is any friend OF mine. By let
ter received from Mr.. Bogardus, who is n
stranger, though apparently a friend, l
learn that the man Morris proposes to
act as executor of my fathers estate.
don't like that. He will not communicate
with me, although he knows my address,
and he also refuses to give me the inlor-
nation should have.
The whole affair is very mysta ario,s, and
it looks as ii an attempt WAS being made
to deprive me OF what is my due. Idon't
know what property there is, but l shall
not allow myself TO be deirauded, be ii
ever 80 little or ever so large. know
the man " no was killed was my father,
because everything goes to prove it. lie
was q member OF company +, OF 1lth
Maine volunteers, and remember when
a child how he often took me TO Augusta,
Me-, and showed me the resimental Hag
in the state house. He was wounded al
Deep Bottom, Va, and had four scars OIL
his neck. He got a pension. Mr. Bus
well, with whom l board, is the brother OF
my mother"
There is no doubt as to the young la1y's
identity, and the action OF the man Morris
at Wallace is peculiar, to say the least,
especially since he tas better reasons
than any one else for knowing who is the
rightful heir to the dead sherif's prop
erty, to whom lie has claimed to be II
friend. Miss Mooers proposes to push
her investigation to the very end OF the
case, and she has influential friends who
will render their assistance.