Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-31
Coo1ly Shoots His Two Little Sons
After Luring Them from Their
Home with Candy.
MURDERER then DRIVES TO
town and GIVES HIMSELF Up
Narrowly Escapes Lynching at Hands
of Infatuated NeighbOrs-Claims to
Have Committed Deed Out of Re-
venge on His Wife Who Had Re-
fused to Live with Him.

Marion, Ind, Oct. 27.-Jesse Mcclure.
a farm hand, murdered his two sons,
aged five and seven years, Sunday
afternoon, leaving their bodies in a
fence corner. While mob was form
ing to capture and lynch him, Mcclure
drove on run to this city and gave him
self up. He has been secreted by the
authorities, who fear attempted vio-
lence. Mcclure lived near Frankton,
and had separated from his wife year
ago, she refusing to live with him and
returning with her children to her
fathers home. At noon Sunday Nc
Clure hired rig at Elwood and drove
to the KilgOre farm, the owner being
Mrs. McClures father. He found the
children playing in the front yard, and
induced them with candy to take a ride
with him. He drove mile up the road,
carried the children to a fence corner
and shot them with revolver. The old
er one was found dead few minutes
later, and the younger was dying,
piece of the candy being still in his
mouth. Mcclure fed, and was pursued
by a crowd of young farmers bent on
deadly vengeance. The alarm was
given, and from all surrounding towns
armed pursuers started. Mcclure sue
ceeded in reaching the Jail here with
out being stopped, and the authorities
have hidden him away. Intense excite
ment prevails
A Horrible COnfession.
i To the Jail turnkey, Mcclure admitted
the murder of his two children, and said
he had killed them because his wife had
left him and refused to see him. Said
he: when she refused to see me, de-
cided to be revenged, and drove down
the road to a little clump of small trees.
My two children were asleep in the
buggy. When l stopped the jolt awoke
my little boy, Dee. He looked up to me
and said: Papa, what are you going
to do?' l put my hand over his eyes
and took my gun from my pocket and
shot him in the forehead, killing him
instantly. The shot awoke little
Homer, and took him by the shoulder
and fired shot into his head: They
both fell to the bottom of the buggy. I
drove the horse to the side OF the road
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out on the withered grass. l then
drove directly to Marion to the Jail,
and am here to give myself up. The
neighbors will lynch me when they find
out what I have done. I do not care
what,you do with me- lam ready to die,
and expect to hang for this crime. All
that I ask is to see my dear little ones
Buried"
Late Sunday evening it was learned
that mob was being formed to come
to Marion and lynch Mcclure. Deputy
Sheriff Williams spirited the murderer
away from the Jail and started with him
to Indianapolis.
Tragedy in California.
Monterey, CAL, Oct. .27.-While tenn
porarily deranged, Mrs. Louis Iverson
wife of Salinas machinist, murdered
three of her children at Pacific Grove
at the dictation, she said, of supreme
power. She first strangled her eldest
daughter, Louisa, aged IL years. She
then attempted the life of her eldest
son, aged II, but the boy broke away
from her and took the train for his
home in Salinas. She then strangled
her son Harold, aged six, and securing
an ak, struck him blow on the head
Later, in the evening she killed her