The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-27
ONE CHILD MAY RECOVER
both SHOTS FIRED BY JESSE
MCCLURE DID NOT PROVE FATAL.
The Baby VIII Live IL He Does Not
Succumb to Effects of the Shock
Story Told by Mrs. Mcclure.
,ial to the INDIANAPOLIS journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Oct 26.-Jesse Mcclure.
whose diabolical attempt to murder his
two little boys at his former home, twelve
miles northwest of Elwood Sunday after
noon, shocked the entire State, probably
will be unsuccessful in his attempt at
double murder. Although Omer. aged four.
the elder of the boys, died twenty minutes
after he had been carried to his mothers
side, Dee, aged two, the younger child. was
still alive at noon to-day, and unless there
is a marked change for the worse in his
condition, will recover The bullet with
was meant to end his life failed TO pene-
trate the brain, but struck the skull In the
center of the forehead and glanced up
ward passing under the scalp over the
top of the head and coming out behind.
The attending physician says that unless
the shock was too great for the childs
vitality he will recover.
Late Sunday night the Journal repre-
sentative visited the Mcclure home, from
which the innocent children were lured
by their father, and also the scene of the
crime, quarter of mile west and twenty
rods to the north. In one room lay the
body of little Omer, while in another sat
the stricken mother, clasping the other
child to her breast, trying to alleviate its
sufferings and counterfeit the effects OF the
CHASTITY injury inflicted by its inhuman
When questioned regarding the crcum-
stances leading up to the murder, Mrs. Nc
Clure said that since she and her husband
parted, three weeks ago, her sister, Mrs.
Emma Kilgore, has been living with her,
as she was afraid her husband would
carry out his repeated threats TO kill her.
Sunday morning. when he appeared at the
home and tried to induce her to go out TO
the gate to talk with him, Mrs. Mcclure
refused to go out, sending her sister In
stead. 1t seems perfectly clear that Nc
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the children TO him, get their mother 10
come out, that he might kill her, then the
children. and finally himself. This is borne
out by the fact that he drove up and down
the road in front of the house for more
than an hour with the children in the bug
gy, before taking them to their death. Mrs.
Mcclure said that her husband had been
cruel and abusive to her and the children on
many occasions, and that he brutally
whipped her seven-year-old daughter by
former marriage, who lived with them. His
Mrs. Mcclure is daughter OF Joseph
Kilgore, and a member Of one of the most
nifty, six miles north Of Elwood. Until late
last night, when they found that Mcclure
had given himself up. residents of the COM
munity where the crime was committed
kept watch at all cross roads for the fugi-
tive. and there is no doubt he would have
been lynched hao he been captured there.
The crime. which was the most cold
booded in the annals Of this part or the
State. has been the sole topic of CONVERSE
ton here to-day.
Mcclure has a half brother here, James
Fancher. but nothing is known of his
other relatives.
MARION, Ind, Oct. 26.-In connection
with the shooting of the two Mcclure chill
dren by their father yesterday IL was learned
to-day that the children had not fallen
asleep, Mcclure said. but that he had
stupefied them with whisky.
For some time there was a question to
which county the murder was committed in.
but it developed to-day that the spot where
the killing was done is located two miles
over the Grant county line in Upton county.
Mcclure believed he had shot the children
in this county, and gave that as a reason
for coming TO Marion rather than going 10
Upton.