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DIUON WOMAN TAUGHT VMM OF AXE MURDERSMrs. D. E: Farrand, of Dillon, reports she was very much interested in the Tribune article on the Villisca axe murders. She said reading it recalled the terror she felt when she lived in Villisca, Iowa. She was a school teacher in the Iowa town when the murders were committed, and Mrs. Moore, one of the victims, had been a schoolmate. Mrs Farrand said one of her pupils was a Moore child who was murdered. She said ihere were eight murdered by the axe fiend. They were Mr. and Mrs. Moore, their four children and two little Stillinger girls from in the country who stayed with the Moore’s the fatal inght.Mrs, Farrand saild she had a lister teaching school in the Sheep Sreek Basin in Beaverhead county it the time and so great was the ’ear in Villisca for continued mur-lers, that she packed up and left. Her sister is Mrs. William Sween-jy of Dillon, formerly, Lillian Mc-[ntyre.Mrs. Farrand said that many people of Villisca slept in the lotel, following the murders, for safety and if people ventured out n the evenings they went in groups.
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Dillon Daily Tribune
Dillon, Montana, US
Wed, Sep 29, 1948
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