The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-22
Policeman to Get $500 For Ar
resting MOSer.
REWARD FROM ILLINOIS
PRISONER CONTINUES IN DE-
JECTED STATE.
Nothing Has Been Heard From the
Sheriff Who Wants Him, But It Is
Thought That BE Will Arrive
Here on Wednesday to Get His
Man and Take Him Back.

Moser still waits at the police sta
ton the arrival of the Illinois sheriff
to take him back to Tazewell county
for trial. He sat in the main room OF
the station all day and said nothing to
any one.
A notice of the reward for the cap
ture of Moser was received at the po-
lice headquarters yesterday. officer
Palmer, who made the arrest, will re-
ceive for his work $780, for that amount
was offered for the capture of the MUIR
derer. Palmer is quite elated over the
affair. He does not know when he will
receive the money and probably will
not know until the sheriff from Illinois
arrives.
Sheriff Mount is expected on Wednes-
day morning. Chief Hilton has heard
nothing more from him than was re-
ceived at first, but it is supposed that
he is on the way and will arrive We'd
nesday morning.
Moser's wound was dressed again by
DR.. Giesy. The victim was much re-
lieved by the process. He said after
ward that he felt a great deal better.
on Sunday has left.
picture or Despair.
But he is becoming more and more
picture of detection and despair. He
seems to have aged since the day of
his capture. His face has grown even
more emaciated and wan. There are
deep and heavy lines in it. His eye is
settled in a wearied and forlorn look
He says nothing to any one until spo-
ken to and then he answers in a feeble
whisper.
He is undoubtedly suffering more an
guish than most murderers who are
brought to the scaffold suffer. He sits
in the main Office all day and leaning
his head on his hand stares at the
floor with his eyes half closed. He pays
little attention to anything that goes
on about him and never makes COM
ment. Probably this is the first time
he has ever been in a police station
and everything is strange to him.
Even hard-hearted policemen, or
rather policemen who are supposed TO
be hard-hearted, pity him. They can
see that he is suffering great anguish.
It is not the fear of being hanged that
bothers him. He has said many times
that he does not care what they do
with him. He probably would thank
the man who would step up and kill
him now for he has not enough energy
left to kill himself even if he had a
chance. The misery which he feels is
not brought about by fear of his own
safety.
Conspiracy Against Him.
He thinks that a religious conspiracy
made IL necessary for him to kill his
wife. He believes that she would have
been unhappy if she remained alive
among the Omish people and as she
would not leave it was necessary for
him to kill her for her own sake.
He says that he wanted to educate
the children and that so long as they
remained among these people it was
impossible, In fact he talks so much
about the professions that it is believed
that he wanted to make a lawyer of
his eldest son. But the Omish preachers
did not believe in anything but farm
ers, so as long as he and his children
remained among them and under their
influence there was no hope for them
to be more than farmers.
This idea of religious persecution has.
or course, became a mania with him,
and he looks on everything, even in
Salt Lake, as if among the Omish
preachers in Illinois.
Won't they see this what YOU are
going to WRITE he asked anxiousIy. eff
they do it will go hard with me. I'm
not supposed to tell anything about the
church. They think It is blasphemy."