Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1913 — THINK AX-MURDERER IS IN PENITENTIARY [ARTICLE]

THINK AX-MURDERER IS IN PENITENTIARY

Twenty-Five Fiendish Murders. Attributed to Henry Lee Moore, Now in Missouri Prison.

Henry Lee Moore is serving/a life sentence in the Missouri penitentiary for murder, and M. W. McClaughry, an agent for the Department of Justice for the U. S., attributes to him twenty-five murders, all committed with an ax. Among them were the terrible murders at Colorado Springs in September, 1911, when Henry Wayne and wife and baby daughter, formerly of Medaryville, were murdered. On the same night Mrs. Alice Burnham and two children, who lived next door to the Wayne family, were killed in the same manner. A blood-stained ax was found in the rear of the Wayne house. His last victims were his mother and grandmother at Columbia City, Mo., last December. The June before J. B. Moore and four children and two guests had been killed at Villisca, lowa, and the same month in 1911 Rollin Hudson and wife, of Paoli, Kans., were murdered. Other murders attributed to him are those of William E. Dawson, wife and daughter, of Monmouth, 111., October, 1911; and William Showman, wife and children, Ell swort h, Kans., the same month. Moore, at his trial, said that he had made a study of famous murders, including the Dr. Grippen case, in England. The department of Justice, through Mr. McClaughry, made an exhaustive study of the ax murders and the data he procured seemed conclusive that Moore had committed all the crimes. 1