Attempted Murder of Mrs. MOORE, 1892

MOORE, BRIGHT, DORSEY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/12/2015 at 03:20:34

Leon Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, January 18, 1917, Page 1

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (1892)
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Items Taken from the Files of The Reporter
Published a Quarter of A Century Ago.
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Tuesday evening about seven o'clock word was brought up town that Timothy Moore had killed his wife at their home down in Grassy Hollow near the Q depot. Andrew Bright and Grant Dorsey called at the Moore home to see him about doing some work, and getting no response one of them looked in the window, and saw Moore who finally came and unbolted the door, and said he was just thinking of going out and arousing some of the neighbors as some one had been there and hurt his wife.

The woman was lying in a pool of blood on the floor with several frightful gashes on her head and one ear almost cut off. Physicians were summoned, and Wednesday morning she regained consciousness and said her husband had attacked her with an axe when she told him she was going to leave him.

Moore was arrested by marshal Henry Bright and placed in jail. He is an old man 74 years of age, and his wife is only 23 years old. They were married in Morgan township. The couple had quarreled frequently since they lived in Leon.

The old man insisted he was innocent and said he left the house about 6 o'clock and started up town but met a man who told him all the stores were closed and he returned home to find his wife lying on the floor, and told a story about two tramps being at his house that afternoon, and he believed they were the ones who did the deed.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2015