Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1910 — ABSOLUTE ACQUITTAL GIVEN TO MENLO MOORE. [ARTICLE]

ABSOLUTE ACQUITTAL GIVEN TO MENLO MOORE.

Jury Pronounced Him Guilty of No Crime in the Murder of the Despoiler of His Home. Before a jammed court room wi.ich was as silent as death, the clerk of the court at Vincennes read the finding of the jury that tried Menlo E. Moore for the murder of Charles Edward Gibson, The verdict 1 read: “We, tlie jury, find the defendant not guilty of any degree of the crime with which he is charged.” When the verdict was read the court room resounded with cheers, in which every person seemed to take part. Hats were thrown to the ceiling, strong men hugged each other, and there was a wild- demonstration of delight. As soon as it was possible the crowd surged to the front of the court room, shook hands with the jury, and Menlo E. Moore, who on October 3d killed Gibson, w T as made a temporary idol. As soon as possible Moore and his wife and their littlfe son and Mrs. Moore’s parents went to their home. Mr. Moore was exhausted by the experience of nis long trial ar.d was so overcome by the fact that the jury had entirely relieved him of any guilt that he could scarcely speak. He will spend a short time at some rest resort and then again plunge into his business, at which he has been a constant worker. The newspaper correspondents say the the confessed guilt of his wife is almost certain to result ultimately in the separation of the couple, and Moore may soon apply for a divorce. It seems more probable, however, that guilty as she was, the fact that she bared her shame to the world in order that his life might be spared, is apt to so appeal to him that he will foegive her and that they will become the same happy, devoted couple that they apparently were before her relations with Gibson were made public.

Better stuff at lower prices.—Home Grocery. We have buckwheat flour for sale. Maines & Hamilton, phone 273. A barrel of very fine sauer kraut; 5c a quart at The Home Grocery. Calling cards make appropriate gifts Engraved or .printed, all styles, at The Republican office. You get correct styles and sizes here. M. R. Halstead left this morn’tg for Macon, Miss., where Winfred Pullins lives, and where he recently purchased some 700 acres of land. Mr. Halstead expects to locate there shortly, and while there on this trip he will contract for his colored labor for the ensuing year. The customary price there for a colored hand is $lO a month and 4 pounds of meat and a bag of mc<T each week. The farm hands learned that the farm bad changed hands and they were getting impatient for an understanding with the new owner and Mr. Pullins Friday telegraphed to Rankin that he bad better come down and get them pacified. Cotton and alfalfa are the chief crops and Mr. Pullins, who-has been there for some lime, regard-; the country as very promising, and he does not depend altogether on ds o>vn judgment either, but bases it to some extent upon a report just issued by the U. S. agricultural department. Mr. Pullins traveled over a considerable part of that country with Mr. Spillman, the chief assistant of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, and that gentleman pronounced the possibilities of the country very abundant and said that with a growth of alfalfa on it the land was worth SIOO an acre c-r more.

Democratic papers took a great amount of delight in publishing an article assailing Senator Beveridge, and which was credited to the Starke County Republican, edited by John L. Moorman, who was the republican candidate for congress in the 13th district. The article was published in the White County Democrat, the Jasper County Democrat and the Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel. But Mr. Moorman did not write the article and it never appeared in his paper, and he does not entertain the opinion it expressed toward Senator Beveridge. The papers that copied the article are now making profuse excuses to Editor Moorman. Last summer The Republican made a blunder in copying'a clipping from some political notes sent out by the Republican press bureau, in which Mayor Becker, of Hammond, was misrepresented. The Republican made apologies, both through its columns and to Mayor Becker in a personal letter. The local Democratic organ sought to make capital out of this apology, 1 and now, only a short time later, we have a spectacle of the Democrat making a deep bow and acknowledging a blunder of its own. None of us are free from mistakes and we are glad to realize that some of us have tha courage to manfully acknowledge rectiiyjJiawT* . Thompson, a young man from York, Neb., is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Jt S. Jessen, and family. Fill your coal bins now. Coal famine is threatened. Call 273. Maines & Hamilton. -