The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-20
WOMAN KILLS HUS.
BAND; THOUGHT TO
HAVE Been insane
Mrs. Ossie DeMoss, Formerly of
FlemingSburg, Kills Her Husband
At Their Home In Cincinnati
Thursday Evening.

After killing her husband by firing
three shots into his head and body, at
their home in Cincinnati, Thursday
night, Mrs. Ossie DeMoss, AZ years
old, calmly met two policemen in the
hallway of the building, handed them
an empty revolver and informed them
that she had just shot her husband,
Charles DeMoss, 46 years old, because
he had attempted to beat her. At the
police station the woman maintained
silence except to humble in an erratic
manner, leading the police to believe
she was demented.
At $50 o'clock Thursday night
Charles Youngman, % years old, who
lives on the first floor Of the flat
building in which the tragedy occurred,
ran into the Second District Police
Station and told Lieutenant Doyle that
he and his mother, Mrs. Mildred
Youngman, had heard series of shots
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were sitting in their home, He said
the reports came from the floor above
them. Youngman led Lieutenant Doyle
and Sergeant Kessen to the building.
Mrs. Youngman met them at the
door and told them the shots evidently
had been fired in the DeMoss apart
ments She. said she had charge of
renting the flats in the building and
that the DeMoss family had lived there
for several years
The patrolmen went to the apart
ments at once. Just as they reached
the top of the stairs and were about
to enter a narrow hallway. they were
confronted by Mrs. DeMoss. She took
revolver from her apron pocket and
handed II to the officers.
81 just shot my husband" she said
Il killed him because he was going
to beat me-"
All the chambers in the weapon had
been discharged. The policemen
searched the woman and found six
empty cartridges in her apron pocket
Mrs. DeMoss led them to a frolt
bedroom where they found her hus-
band lying upS, the floor in the mid
die of the room. Bedclothes were
strewn about. bu, no furniture was
overturned. One OF the bullets had
lodged in the victims head and an
other had torn through the chin. De-
Moss was fully attred, the police said.
Lieutenant Doyle called patrol
and ordered the man taken to the
General Hospital, where he was pro-
nounced dead on arrival. Physicians
said that he probably hod been killed
instantly. In addition to the wounds
in his head and chin, il was found that
another bullet had entered his right
shoulder. The body was taken to the
morgue. Coroner d. c. Handley was
notified.
During the shooting, son Of the
couple, Edward DeMoss. 81 years old,
was sleeping in an adjoining room. He
told the police that he did not hear
the shots and knew nothing of the
tragedy until he awoke. The youth
told the police that curiosity seekers
thronged into the room after the po-
lice had gone and awakened him. No |
revolver ever had been kept in the |
house, he said.
From the son the police learned that
Mrs. DeMoss had been mentally i'll for |
some time. She was placed in an
asylum at Lakeland, near Louisville, |
KY when the family lived in Flem-
ingsburg, Ky. Just before moving to
the police learned, great
was noted in the wo-
mans condition and she was allowed
to accompany her family here.
short time later she suffered relapse
and was sent to an institution at Day
ton. Ohio. On Christmas day, year
ago, she was brought home by her
husband under the sons protest, the
latter related.
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