The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10

trunk to his room, No Al, and left it
there. Moon went in and out during the
afternoon, taking bundles to his room,
but doing nothing unusual or likely to at
tract attention That night ne retired
quite early, but sleep, unless of the eter-
nal variety, was far from the mind of Mr..
Moon. He did not appear for breakfast
on Sunday, June II.
He did not show up for dinner and
when supper was served without him sus-
picious domestics peered through the
transOm OF room Al. One look was
enough 10 produce u Shrek that could be
heard all through the building. Stretched
at full length upon the carpet, in a pool
of blood, was the form OF man, no head
being visible a side door was forced
open, and Motel attaches entered. Strap
ped to the hoar, his head severed, but in
a soap box, was the man who had secured
lodging the night before. He had ac-
compli shed the feat of cutting of his own
head. The man had been dead for hours.
His head had been completely severed
from his body, the fatal AK remaining fast
in the floor after fulfilling its CHASTITY mis-
sion. DR.. w Nindedge, now leading
practitioner, was then coroner of Tip
pecanOe county. He set about an investi-
cation, greatly hampered in his work by
the throng of excited people who crowded
room Al. Moon had rugged up guillo-
tine which had performed its work quite
as well as the famous machine handled
by Nj. de Paris. The accompanying
sketch will give some idea of Moons APP
paratus and how he worked it.
When the man came to the hotel, as
stated, his trunk was overheayy. In it
he carried the Instruments of death, which
he had constructed for That purpose. The
shaft supporting the AK was made IN
three sections, TO fit snugly in the trunk.
These were taken out ana bolted together,
making the piece perhaps, seven ieet
long. At the upper end of this shaft
what Is known as Il broadaX was firmly
bolted. In order to give the AK sufficient
weight to carry it through his neck,
Moon had placed bars of inch iron three
feet long along the sides Of the AK,
The lower end Of the shaft was fastened
to the lower floor with hinge. On the
side OF q window frame was placed a lit
tie shelf large enough to bold an old
fashioned candlestick. A small eye-hook
was fastened to the window frame,
through which a stout cord was run and
fastened TO a similar eyehoOk in the AK
shaft. This cord was double or endless,
and ran on either side of the candle in the
stick, an inch or two from the top OF the
candle, 50 that when it was burned
through the AK would surely fall, the
shaft having been fixed at an angle of
forty-fve degrees.
To the east of the shaft, but in direct
line, was a soap box, with one side re-
moved for the purpose OF admitting his
head. Moon was DESTROYS that his fea-
lures should not be married by the AKIN
its fall, and had arranged the box at
such an exact spot thai the ak should not
miss his neck, while preserving his face
from Disagreement.
Beneath his neck, at the point
where the AK would strike, he had
screwed billet of wood, which en-
actlT fitted the hollow at the back of
his head, thus insuring a clean cut of
the AK.
When all was ready Moon lighted the
candle lay down and strapped his feet
and body 10 the floor by means of leather
strips and eyehooks. He had provided
himself with a phial of chioroform and
some cotton batting He saturated the
batting with the anaesthctic, then thrust
his imprisoned hands beneath his sus-
penders and awaited the end. The candle
soon burned down to the cord, re-
leasing the AK, and Moons head was
cut from the body with remarkable
precision. Not scratch was made
upon the chin. Whether he was
unconscious when the AK fell is,
of course, a matter of conjecture.
The blood, which saturated the floor,
was the only "muss" made BY the self
execution.