Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-24
Does NOT CONFESS IN TERMS
sDOCLAaEx RE nan No RECoLLEC.
1sON OF q Nj RIDER.
0aya TAas Ne Would Rather See Hts
/ coaoaren Dead Thaa In the Hands p
81 ME- Wife'a Folks-stiu
Se1e Daaser Of .
1ynchtng. 80

8@&8 ~ Att W ~ 800
oeoaghl back from Mcpherson this morn
~. There IL stiil some danger OF a lynch
-. 4oore made a complete statement he
16ea Q notary At. the Mcpherson jail.
= does not admit in terms that ne killed
- cA3ldren. but he does not deny 1t. and
49, q rambling story about bad spells
reAo8 - hAS been subject 10 for some years.
- says that one of these spells sNzed him
- NJ night OF the murder. of which he
eoGDDB 10 have no recollection. MooreS
soon1umnsnt. In full. is as follows:
& SohM Moore. of lawful age. being hrst
i1m1Y Guotu, OF oath. make the following
SUo110ent In relation TO myself. and the
4Pcunn9tances surrounding the death OF
80 Children At Hutchinson. kas., on Sun
- NJ:
~ 8 years old. and was born in Paris.
county. III. Ny father ran on and
800 - when I vas small, and 1 have rever
Ehoop1 81 him since. and i have no other
k5rantava. / lived around the best l could
- DaAce to place TIL l was about Ii years
81 nnd then wen: TO Kansas with Liie
EHnRn6r. In two or three years after i was
DoEx1oa % my present wife. the daughter
= Wnght Franklin. I was a farm renter
mRUunA Emporia until last spring. and In
49, nuDaDer I was down in the Indian Ter
|fEHofy. haNng my family in Emporia. In
|51ko Sorxstory I worked in the Usage Nation.
6a &eeutued to Emporia in October. did
|35k Ave much work. and ] left Emporih a
-. am and drove overland TO Hutchin-
- md rented the mall house where the
|fn1nf6 q the children occurred. My fataer-
|fA16Ufo folks lived there. ! moved tnere
|tDon1sugy 70 my wishes. but did 50 on ac-
E4eount - my wife, who wished TO I'VE tnere,
~ ne rented the house. i did not have
1i1v work, and only IS In money. and was
~ N debt for q stove. 1 did not wish to
- ehnfe on account of my wffes folks.
$500 they were a hard set.
"a man has been in trouble q good
ilav tfmos. n one OF the boys. Nit
EWSI1n1aa, Is now In the reformatory at
nn1cainocn, sent up from Emporia iot
SHaanw Alfalfa, He Is my wife's brother.
- mpthsr-sn-iaw's brother. Jim Pense. Is
~ - Kansas penitentiary. sent from EN-
naSa foe b same offense. and my. wites
4R. Charlie, was In the Emporia jail
~0asnzg chickens. and my father-in.iaw
= he Enporia jail for q term for being
~ euttfa0 scrape. This was q good many
- aeu. He was Trunk while IN TINS
25la1ng scrape. For all these reasons did
vant 10 live near them. but went there
my wife, and 1 nave wishea d
times I had not done 10.
ADe world looked awful black to me ana
II. completely discouraged. and did not
- that to do. I rave been having bad
for seven or eight years and Dr.
-: OF Emporia. has been doctoring
~ them. When they began to come
4 ia = pumbness down my body and
Fenfhel and my heart will thump and nut
= head viii begin to ache and pain.
i've Z ringing In my head nearly all Inc
q ~ heaA would get heavy and every
epould sWfm before me and at these
4 IA not know anything and i would
ma 1 did not care to live. During the
~ 0hat ! had these spells I would keel
oG. The 6rst one ! lad was on lE creek.
sasxhtes miles north Of Emporia.
N,rsvinw the horses and fell over and
- know anything till after ] got ia
3aise. % my wife told me afterward
s1fou she saw me she thought that ]
jksay. I often have these spells. Eacn
- had one of them 1t seemed to be
o Shau the other. I never could tel
1 nhout when these would come on. but
aensrally followed when 1 felt bad.
sI ~ been feeling pretty bad for twe
fnrnn DAYS before Sunday. and also fer
l1v Analy discouraged. Ny father-in.
- ever there Sunday afternoon. and
NJ wife went away about Z o'clock
- been an awful hard winter on mi
10I wanted my father-inlaw TO tax
~pnnHneoa and let me and my wife wori
@ ~ - would not do II. Three OF hi
Wese over there eating on OF me
"a him I wanted 10 pay the $to.0
"a I would not have anything I.
6 I~0lvaYsIpaid my debts. ] though
51SrDl 0eve into the came house an.
look after the children and thei
Nh eat. end that would, OF KIND o
aleag. . little. and the childrel
&iS mn q these things. This va,
{sicscek In the afternoon, Ny wifi
@ ~ 0tay over night with a Mrs. wal
S3fh whom she had been working
I've & three days. After this I wen
Gy heother-in-law's, Lee Ensiey's., am
et.yed At home; \ got
MI pretty blue and discouraged. an
S2Snnfan were all In bed when ! cam
q Were asleep. They were all nv
n7h4 0oe. IN the one bed: When am
TIN had one Of my worst spells
- hurt me eWfully and everythin
0oating before me and the mex
ronember after this. was. In tryini
eut 81 the house myself. The Who'll
Oc@ed 70 be an awful nightmar
- - f~ecsiiect anything about the hatch
IT, 6ife. II I done that don't havt
Nlo6o1eetion OF Il. i told my wife tina
- Doing to leave and it looked that
nII1avo, and she told me 20 leave. an
60 - esar e leave my chit EnTia an M
think Of leaving them TO live lk
4 Franklin children.
Nl1S l3-ynae-0ld boy could read and writ
fA4,cONa3 0gure pretty well. l told m
1T tn AZ wanted 10 live for was I
$SS Wtnf ny children would come to. an
lafEA,v Men