The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14
which now stares the sightless man in
the face is imminent.

the face is imminent.
With the exception of Mrs. Steele
none of Green's relatives were present
to-day to see him sentenced. Green's
mother lives at Leon, Decatur county,
but was unable to come up to say
goodby to her son, although she desired
to do so. His sister is a s~tenographer
employed at Corydon, but was not here
to-day.
Green is only IS years old, but looks
to-day as is he were IS. He was former
ly employed in Abba, as a driver for the
New Monroe hotel bus.
Otis Green shot and killed his wife,
Minnie Green, in front of 1911 Locust
st. at 7:SO O'Clock on Monday morning,
September 8. Mrs. Green had secured
a divorce from her husband the Saturday
before in the Monroe county court and
had come to Des Moines to lead a life of
happiness and freedom after two years
of marital trouble. She secured employ
ment at the Still College Of O~steopathy
through her acquaintance with Prof. &.
E. Moore (who had been president of
the Maryville, No., female seminary
when she was a student there.) Green
followed his wife to Des Moines and met
her near the college on the fateful
morning. He rode a wheel, fell of the
wheel, sprawlipg across the street and
running toward his wife shot her twice
with a 38.caliber revolver. One shot
went wild, but the other buried itself in
Mrs. Green's head and she fell to the
pavement dead. Green then leveled
the revolver at his own head and fired
the bullet tearing a Jagged wound
through the front part of his head, max.
ing necessary the removal of his eyes
and almost causing his death. Green
was arrested and taken to Mercy hospi.
tai where he was cared for and guarded
until confined in the county Jail a fort
night ago.
That Green shot his wife Intentionally
was shown by correspondence and
threats. When he recovered conscious
ness the morning of the shooting his
first words were:
81 did it because she left me. Thank
God, l am going to die. Is she dead
She would not live with me and she hac
secured a Divorce"
Mrs. Green wa the daughter of MIR
and Mrs. Henry Wilson, of Maryville
Missouri, her maiden name being Minnie
Wilson. She moved to Abba with her
parents eight years ago and lived with
her brother-in-law, ]. @. Stevens who
was proprietor of the new Monroe
house, where she was employed. Two
years ago she married Otis Green,
fellow employed at the hotel, and lived
with him unhappy, for two years, when
she secured a divorce and came to Del
Moines. She was we'll educated, havin,
attended the Maryville, Missouri, higt
school and the Maryville seminary, ant
was 80 years old at the time of be-
death.
1t was stated this afternoon that
petition would be sent to the state boar.
of control asking that Green be trans
ferred from the Fort Madison penitenti
airy to the states prison at Anamosa OF
account of Green's precarious physica
condition. Under the law Judge Bisho,
was compelled to send Green to Fol-
Madison, but only the heaviest. strong
est convicts are kept there, and til
medical aud surgical facilities are no
nearly as good as they are at Anamosa
The board Of control alone can max
the transfer, and it will be petitioned ii
Green's behalf.-Des Moines Capita
November 8th.
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