The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-09-18
MRS. EVANS IN
PLEA OF GUILTY
ADMITS KILLING OF PROF.
MOORE OF STATE COLLEGE
WHEN CHARGE is CHANGED
TO MANSLAUGHTER.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-Throwing her
self on the mercy of the court and
waving her right to lrlal in return
for the prosecutions changing the
charge against her from murder TO
manslaughter in the first degree.
Mrs. Mae Evans, aged -, yesterday
admitted in the circuit court that
she had killed DIR. r.. l.. Moore,
former state veterinarian and in
structor in Brookings college. in a
rooming house on Spring avenue on
May 90. She will be sentenced later.
h law fixes no maximum penal
ty ior the crime of manslaughter in
the first degree but places the mini
mum sentence at four years impris-
onment.
The woman was held on the
charge of murder and offered to
enter Il plea of guilty if the prose-
cution would reduce the charge 10
manslaughter. The states attorney
finally agreed to this rather than go
through an expensive and highly sen
s%ational trial. 81
Moore Had A.ngered Her.
According TO alleged confessions
by Mrs. Evans, Moore had greatly
angered her during the evening OF
the murder by %taunting her With no
ing intimate with several Greeks in
the city. In the alleged confessions
she declares that she and Moore hisd
been downtown early in the evening
and that he began tNyi;ting her about
her conduct and that they i%qumrYci6d
on the streets. On 1rpachiBg tho
room she disrobed While he sut IN y
chair without removing his hat and
continued to taunt her. She dcciar-
ed in the confession that she throat
ened TO kill herself and sat in hi
lap and wrote on a tablet, ihe son-
fence, Take care OF my remaias.
which Vas later found by the aulno-
rites when they broke into tbs
room.
This the confession states. did not
move Moore who said that a woman
who would do swhat she'd done ought
to kill herself. ~Thereupon, accord
ing TO the alleged confession, She
laid the tablet ON the table, picked
UP her revolver and shot him twice
i'll the face, then added TO her note
a cross and the following, Take
care of us both. Mae and shot her
self.
History of the Case.
DIR. +. l.. Moore, former state vet
erinarian and member OF the faculty
OF the state college at Brookings and
also employed by the state as expert
in manufacturing the hog cholera
serum, was shot and killed in Il
rooming house conducted by Mrs. L.
G. Hulick, 900 North Spring avenue
on the evening OF May &c.
The shooting occurred about 9:45
o'clock iii the evening and when the
police broke into the room at 10
O'Clock they found The dead body OF
Or. Moore, covered with blood in n
chair in the room. while on the floor,
lying across his feet was Mrs. Evans
unconscious and suffering from TWO
bullet wounds near her throat. The
couple waH recognized by Chief Sloan
OF the fire department as a couple
he had seen pass the auditorium on
their way home, shortly before the
shooting. The woman was then
berating her escort and using rather
violent language.
The position Of the bodies and
the fact thai the revolver from which
the fatal bullets had been discharg-
ed lay on the floor al the left OF
DR.. Moore and in such a position
that he could not have placed it
there after having the bullets into
his brain, led to the theory that the
woman did the shooting. This
theory was strengthened by the find
ing of bullets in her suit case and
the fact that she had written the
note and signed it.