Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — KILLS HIS GRANDDAUGHTER [ARTICLE]

KILLS HIS GRANDDAUGHTER

Aged Man Who Uses Ax Says Ha Wanted to Save Her Life of Misery. Muskegon, Mich. —“I did it because I loved her and wanted to take her out of this life of misery," was the explanation offered by Stuart C. Moon, aged seventy-two, of the killing of his ten-year-old granddaughter, Irma Moon, according to officers who took him Into custody. Moon, a retired lumberman, was said by residents of Muskegon Heights to have called the girl out of a schoolroom and attacked her with an ax. The child's body was mutilated, Rev. A. W. Lyon told the officers, before he could interfere. Moon was held on a charge of murder. An investigation Into his sanity probably will be ordered, it was said.