The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-31
IN DEATHS GRASP.
James P. Moore, g
Cripple, Strangled
to Death.
TANGLED IN THE BUSHES.
Wayland Murray Dies on
His Coach Box, Reins
in Hand.
TANGLED IN THE BUSHES.

James P. Moore, one-legged shoe
maker, living at Cross street, was
found dead in East park last night
about 615 o'clock, by Dominick Judge,
a laborer living at % Wilson street.
Judge notified of1cers Spencer and
Gilchrist, who travel in East Worces-
ter, and after an exa mination, they tel
ephoned for Medical Examiner f. III.
Baker, who pronounced death due to
strangulation.
The last seen of Moore was yester-
day afternoon at o'clock, when his
wife says he came into the house and
remained for few moments. When ne
left he did not say where he was going,
and she knew nothing of his where
abouts until notified by the officers last
night that her husband was dead.
Judge, who found the body, had been
in Quinsigamond spending the day, ana
got off a car on Shrewsbury street d.
rectly in front of the park, with the in
tention of taking short cut over TO ms
home on Wilson street.
When about half way across the park,
near where East Shelby cuts through,
he noticed the body of a man lying face
downward. He lay on the hill short
distance above East Shelby, with his
head at the bottom of the hill and his
body lying on the incline. His crutches
lay at his side and his right leg was
tangled in a clump of bushes.
Judge tried to rouse him, and partly
turned him over so that his face was
visible, but it plainly showed that life
was extinct The blood had rushed to
his head and his face was badly dis
colored
Oficers Spencer and Gilchrist made
an examination of the body and also of
the surroundings. 1t was evident that
Moore's right foot had caught in the
bushes and he had fallen headlong. Not
being able to rise he laid there and
slowly strangled to death.
Undertaken James A. Athy was noti-
fed and the body removed to his ware
rooms, s Green street, where it was
prepared for burial
Moore has not worked any of late and
lost his left leg a number of years ago.
OF late he has been peddling vegetables,
not being able to secure employment at
his trade.
His wife has been married three
times and Moore was her third husband,
Her first, Dennis Britt, fell down stairs
at his home, breaking his neck and her
second husband, Michael Conway, was
drowned in Lake Quinsigamond.
No arrangements have been made for
the funeral
: Wayland Murray, hack driver, died
yesterday at noon, while seated upon
his hack with reins in hand.
Mr. Murray entered the yard OF Z. y.
Davis livery stable, Pleasant street,
near Chestnut, at 11.30 o'clock, to wait
for the close of the morning service
in Union church, from which he had
secured passengers on Sundays for sew
eral years.
When Mr.. Murray drove his horses
into the stable, boards creaked beneath
the weight, and one of the horses plant
ed a forward foot through the flooring.
Mr.. Murray kept on the seat until his
favorite horse was blowing in the hole
made by the broken board. Jumping
from his seat he caught the bride of
one of the horses and led the animals
and hack out of danger. His face was
flushed, and as he headed the horses
into the yard and left them standing,
he said II wouldn't go through that
again for S."
AS the choir was rendering the clos
ing anthem in the church, so yards
away, Mr.. Murray mounted the box and
lifted the reins.
The touch of the drivers hands upon
the reins had no effect upon the horses
save to make them motionless. Pro-
prietor Davis of the stable peered from
the carriage shed and saw the driver
sitting erect. Mr.. Davis called to Mr.
Murray, but there was no answer. He
summoned DR.. F. H. Baker by tele-
phone, and the physician declared death
to have ensued from heart failure.
Sessions &, Sons, undertakes, were
notified, and the body was removed tc
the rooms. Mrs Murray was visit
ing friends at Short Beach, near New
Haven, CT, and she was notified of her
husbands DEATH She will arrive this
morniI &, and arrangements for the flu
neral will be made.
Mr.. Murray was about so years old
and had driven a cab and hack for Il
years. His stand, at the corner OF
Front and Main streets, was the rem
devious of scores of friends, and
among business men in the centre OF
the city, Mr.. Murray was generally
known and respected.