Hutchinson gazette., 1899-03-30
Moore'a staten. mt.

not 80 recognized by the county "No'
ney who has collected evidence th W
stronger against Moore than IL u
THIS statement was not taken at HI,
lnstIgatiOn, but on the contrary ,1was
taken against his order, for VI on
Moore was taken To Mcpherson he
gave orders against his being inter
viewed. But the orders were not fol
lowed and the abatement was taken
and sworn TO ut the suggestion OF
Judge Simpson on hearing that he
wanted TO make q confession:
MCPHERSON, Kama, March 20, 1890.
State Of kansas, Mcpherson Co., 10.
/, John Moore, OF lawful age, being
Arst duly sworn, on oath, make the
following abatement In relation TO my
self, and the circumstances surround
ing the death of my children at Hutch
insOn Kansas, ON Sunday last; | am 80
years old, and was born In Paris, Edgar
county, Illinois, My father ran of
and left me when l was small, and l
have never heard Of him since, ana ]
have no other relatives. have lived
around The best could from place TO
place Till | was about seventeen years
old, and then went to Kansas with
Lafe Ketner, In two or three years
after | was married TO my present wife,
the daughter Of Wright Franklin, /
was a farm renter around Emporla I'M
I'll la : spring, and In the summer l
was down In the Indian territory, leay-
ing my family In Emporia In the .er'
rltory worried In the Osage Nation
and returned 10 Emporia In October.
| did not have much WORK, and | left
Emporia n month ago this afternoon,
and drove overland TO Hutchinson,
and rented the small house where the
death Of my children occurred. My
father-In'law's folks lived there, |
moved there contrary to my Wishes,
but did 10 on account Of my wife who
wished to live there, and she rented
the house, did not have any work
and only $500 In money, and was
$40 so In debt for Il stove. did not
wish to move there on account Of my
wiie's folks because they were hard
set, The old man has been In trouble a
good many times, and one Of the boys,
Nit Franklin, is now In the Rei0rma-
tory at Hutchinson, sent up from En-
poria for stealing alfalfa. lie is my
wife's brother; and my mother-tn-law's q
brother, i'm Pense, 10 in the Kansas
penitentiary, sent from EIupora for
the same offense, and my wife's brother
Charlie, was In the Emporia jail for
stealing chickens, and my father-ln-
law was in the Emporla jail for term
for being in cutting scrape. This
was a good many years ago. lie was
druIk while In this cutting scrape
For all these reasons | did not want to
live near them, hut went there to
please my wife, and | have wished a
thousand times | had not done 30
The world looked awful black to n
and | wos completely discouraged, and
did not know what to do. l have been
having bad spells for seven or eight
yeais and DR.. Morrison Of Emporla
has been doctoring me for them.
When they begin 10 come on l feel a
a numbness down my body and my
legs and my heart will thump and fut'
ter, my head will begin to ache
and pain. have a ringing ln my
head nearly Sll the time, my head
would get heavy and everything would
swim before me, and vt these tin o:
I did not know anything. Be-
fore these spells came on my watel
would become red and l would fee
that l did not care to live. DuriDl
the period that l had these spells
would keel over, The first one ! hat
was on t4S Creek about eighteen 6ilsi
u2rth Of Emporla. WAS currying thu
hoyses ahd fell over and did not know
anything tn after got to The house
and my wife iGld me Afterwards thai
when she saw ME She thought that
was crazy. Ioften have these spells
Eacn time had one of them 1t seemed
to be worse than the other I nevei
could tel much about whea these
would come on, but they CENTRALLY
followed when | felt bad. l had beeI
feeling pretty bad for two or three
days before Sunday, and also felt
pretty badly discouraged. My father
in-law was over there Sunday after
noon, and he and my wife went away
about four o'clock, This has been an
awful hard winter on me and I wanted
my father-in-law to take the children
and let me and my wife work out and
he would not do 1t. Three Of his chill
dren were over there eating off Of me,
and | told him wanted to pay the