The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-05-28
ILLICIT LOVE
Cause of Double Tragedy-Dr
E L. Moore of Brookings,
Killed by His Para
mour

Sioux Falls, May rs. Sitting life
less in a chair, with two bullet
wounds in his head. while tho woman
who had apparently killed him lay at
his feet with a bullet in her neck.
DR.. E. l.. Moore, aged 80, of Brook
ings, state veterinarian and instructor
in the State College at Bookings,
was found ia a room at the rooming
house of Mrs. +. G. Hulick, 800
North Spring avenue at 10 O'Clock Mon
day night when the police broke in
following the sound of shots fred in
the rooms. The woman is Mrs. Mae
Evans, age %, of Aberdeen. formerly
of Rich. Okla.
Patrolmen Wamsley and Sexton
found the door locked and bad to break
their way in.
From the position of the bodies when
the police entered, it is thought that
the did the shooting, as tho
revolver. a 30 calibre weapon of in
terror make, lay on the floor at the
left Of the man, while his left hand
lay in his lap and did not indicate that
he had used it in shooting as the bullet
passed through his mouth and must
have caused instant death. The woman
evidently dropped the weapon after
she had fired two shots into her own
body.
She also left a note which read:
Take care OF my remains. Take
care of US both. Mae. -.
The shooting evidently followed a
quarrel which the two had had before
entering the house. They we're heard
quafreling by several of the iremen
as they walked past the auditorium
shortly before the shooting. Chief
Sloan, who heard them talk as they
went past, identified the couple when
be saw their bodies. The woman
was berating the man and called him
names.
From the fact that Moore was fully
dressed and had his hat on while the
woman was dishabille, it is thought
by the police that he was about to
leave her and that in her desperation
she grabbed the weapon and shot
L diLhs Lhd lub IENbikSI UtlUukFh ~
her was apparent from the finding Of
a number of cartridges in her grip.
Love l%etteis, bearing Brookings date
lines and apparently written by Moore
but sigped your lover were found
in the room and in the woman's suit
case. These letters made numerous
protestations Of love and were volum
inous.
The woman had been in the city for
less thaa two weeks, and has a husband
somewhere who is a barber put she had
not told where he was. Her home was
originally at RichS Okla, a small
place near Oklahoma City but she
spent the past winter at Aberdeen.
She introduced Moore to her landlady
as ''Mr. Smith"
That the couple had had frequent
quarrels and that they had been to-
gether in Sioux Falls for over a week
is apparent from the police records
which show that patrolmen were called
to the rooming house a week ago Satur-
day night, because the man vas threat.
ening to shoot the woman. She had
announced that she was going to Cali
fornia and he threatened to shoot her if
she tried to leave. The matter was
finally quoted and no arrests were
made.
DIR. Moore was one of the best
known veterinary experts in the
state. he was state veterinarian and
was instructor in the State College
at Brookings. He has also been iu
charge of the manufacture of the
serum for hog cholera which the state
distributes to the farmers. He is a
man about 35 years of age and leaves
bis wife and three children at Brook
ings.
Nothing is known of the woman.
Except what she had told her land
lady. She is light complexi n. about
medium size and appears tn be about
% years old. A %coroncr's inquest will
be held but the time has not been set.
Brooking, May 28.-Dr. E. L.. Moore
who was killed at Sioux Falls was one
of the most esteemed citizens of Brook |
ings. He has a splendid family here
and there was nothing to indicate that
he was dissatisfied with his home.
He was state veterinarian and one of
the instructors in the State College in
CITY He was 25 yaara old