The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-25
INDICTED OVER PROTEST
REPORT AS TO THE PROSECUTORS
POSITION IN JOHN MOORE's CASE.
Man, Who Was Once Released
i'm Police Court.

John o. Moore, who was arrested last
April on the charge of wife murder, and
who was tried and acquitted in Police
Court, was rearrested yesterday morning on
a grand jury warrant and locked up in the
county JAIL He Is charged with having
killed his wife on the afternoon of April
last. 1t is reported that States Attorney
Witsie signed the indictment charging
Moore with murder under protest. While
the prosecutor admits that he protested
against one of the indictments returned on
Thursday afternoon by the grand jury, he
will not say that it was the Moore indict-
ment.
Mr.. Wiltsie was in the grand jury room
Thursday, and when the jurors entered the
Criminal Court room with their final report
the prosecutor was present. AS the indict-
ments were passed up to the clerk some
thing was said by the foreman of the jury
in reference to Mr.. Whistles protest. The
prosecutor then openly made the statement
that he had signed a particular indictment
under protest.
Il did that once before" he added, turn
ing to the jury, land the man committed
suicide" Later Mr.. Wiltsie said he could
not talk about his protest" but admitted
he had made one. He would not say it was
in the Moore case. There will probably
come a time" he remarked, when this
matter can be made public, but not now.
To discuss it would probably embarrass the
state great deal"
Moore was arrested at o'clock yesterday
morning at his home by sheriffs deputy.
He was brought to the Jail and placed in a
cell in ''murderer's row." He said he would
not talk about his case until he had seen his
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being held was committed at the home of
Mrs. Moore's sister, Mrs. Derk De Ruiter,
at 2122 North Meridian street. The murder
was committed on the afternoon of April
s, but the body was not discovered until the
following morning. Mrs. Moore lived with
her husband and son on Ludlow street, but
divided her time between her own home and
the. house Of her sister, where her aged
father, Mr.. Post, also lived. 1t was the
latter who discovered the body of his
daughter the morning after the murder.
The detectives, shortly after noon of the
same day, arrested John o. Moore, the hus-
band of the murdered woman, and he was
held until the following week, when he had
hearing in the city Police Court before
Judge Cox The police seemed convinced
that Moore had killed his wife, and worked
hard on the case for several days After a
two days trial, Judge Cox decided there
was not sufficient evidence to hold Moore
longer, and he was discharged. Derk De
Ruiter, the brother-in-la law of Moore, was
drawn into the trouble by those who talked
about the case in the neighborhood, but no
charge was ever made against him.
Police Superintendent Quigley says the
detectives have been seeking evidence in the
case ever since the murder. The superin-
tendent thinks if Moore is guilty he killed
his wife on account of jealousy. II is said
that neighbors of the Moore family claim
to have heard Mrs. Moore say she expected
to lose her life at her husbands hands. Su-
perintendent Quigley says he has under
stood that Mrs. Moore had a bad temper,
He thinks the murder may possibly have
been the outcome of a quarrel. Moore has
friends who assert that he is innocent, and
they say the detectives have been following
the wrong clew.