murder
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‘I can’t save you unless you do what I say’
The Rev. Jesse Moore’s forehead was blown off with a double-barreled shotgun on Nov. 16, 1899, and suspicion immediately fell on his 19-year-old son, Elijah “Lige” Moore, who was sleeping in the same room that night, but claimed not to have heard the shot. A lengthy account of the murder, published three days later by the Continue reading
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‘Land of opportunity’
Somebody was emptying the poor box at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, so the Rev. Joseph R. Watson rigged the box, wiring it to an electric buzzer that would sound in his study. On Feb. 3, 1920, the alarm went off, and Father Watson, accompanied by a nearby store clerk, ran into Continue reading
Roland Klose 