Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — MURDERED HIS FATHER. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED HIS FATHER.

Tonus Moore of Dexter Tells How the Crime Was Committed. Elijah Moore, aged 19, who has been held at Dexter. Mo., under suspicion for the foul assassination of his father. Rev. Jesse Moore, made a full confession, implicating his 15-year-old sister Mary as an accessory, lie afterward amended his confession by exonerating his sister. He planned the assassination two weeks previous to its commission, and his reason given for the deed was that his father was a hard, cruel man in his family, rigid in his discipline, and that be allowed his children no pleasure of any character whatever.