Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-05-29
KILLEDBY
A WOMAN.
Mrs. Mae Evans Shoots and Kills
Dr. Moore, State Veterinarian
Then Shoots Herself.
OLD STORY OF ILLICIT LOVE
Indications are that Murder and
Suicide is the Termination
Of an Affinity Affair.

Sioux Falls Argus Leader::t When
1.-THE police broke into a room at the 4
rooming house of Mrs. e. c. Hulick at
| 302 north Spring avenue, shortly after
| 10 o'clock last evening, the dead body
OF DIR. E. L. Moore of Brookings was
discovered sitting in chair. while
Mrs. Mae Evans of Aberdeen was ly-.
ling on the floor with bullet wound
lin her neck. A revolver lay between
| the body of the man and the woman.
The woman, who was still breathing
was hurried to a local hospital and
everything possible done to save her
| life, but the attending physicians have
little hopes of the woman living. i
While no one saw the shooting or
knows the exact cause, everything
points to another disastrous ending
of an illicit love affair 1t is believed
that the woman did the shooting. This
lis based on the position of the bodies
and where the revolver lay when the
room was entered. The revolver, 81
| caliber, of inferior make, lay on the
4 floor at the left Of the man while his
left flaflt sss iii his Ia cry
4 OF the police is that the woman did |
the shooting and dropped the revolver
as she fell to the floor. There are
some phases of the case.6 however,
4 which lead to the belief tlsat the man
4 Gid the shooting as it ID knaan that
The has threatened to take the life OF
the woman on at least one previous
occasion.
4 The first any one knew of the TRACE
4 dy was when neighbors went to the.
Hulick home and Informed Mrs. HUI
lick that four shots had been fired in
one Of the rooms or the second floor.
Some few minutes prior to the call OF
/ the neighbors Mrs. Hulick had heard
J; a noise in the second story but she
Z thought that some of the roomers had
; dropped something. However as soon
as the neighbors reported that they
4 had heard the report of gunshots Mrs.
j EHulick went to the room where Or.
4 Moore and Mrs. Evans were, and 1t
) was found locked. She then notified
!. the police and Patrolman Wamsley
!, and Sexton were soon on the scene
sIThey broke open the door and the
| gruesome sight as described above
II met them. AS the woman was still
{ breathing, an ambulance was sum
: tmoned and she was at once sent to
i hospital while the body OF Dr.. Moore
/ was sent to a local undertaking room
t Coroner Miller was also notified OF
: the tragedy.
i The only thing bearing on the uag-
u edy and which also leads to the be.
ltlief that the woman did the shooting,
II is the following note found in the
!. room by the police. The note reads:
: .Take care of my remains; take
4 care of us both. Mae
Z DR.. Moore is one of the well known
II men of the state He is about 80
S wears of age and besides being state
j. veterinarian, he is an instructor at
b 1.-THE state agricultural college at
L Brookings, where he has wife and
i family and large circle OF acquaint-
d lances, who were greatly shocked when
s1learning OF the tragedy last evening
V There was not even the slightest sus.
j. tpicion at Brookings that Dr.. Moore
a was leading double life.
II All that can be learned OF Mrs
n Evans is that she is the wife OF Z
I barber, but where he is does not de
6 velop. Mrs. Evans was for some
/. time a resident of Rich, Okla. small
i town not far. from Oklahoma City
E she spent the last winter at Abef
n deem and about two weeks ago She
i came to Sioux Falls and took q room
oEat the Huliek house. She informed
81 Mrs. HuIick that she had a friend al
Il Brookings who would visit her, and am
i. when DR.. Moore appeared On the
e scene he was introduced to Mrs
s lHulick as Mr.. Smith.
IS 1T Isl heliassd that the double trad
e edy was the result Of q quarrel be
Isl tween the man and woman. Earlier
4 in the evening the couple passed tbs
Are statien and Chief Sloan heard ths