Mr…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

thicket, drew his revolver, and prepared to protect himself. He remained there about five minutes. Suddenly there came another report close to him. The shot was immediately fol- lowed by another, and then Mr. Hardy heard one of the trappers say; ‘T think they are done for.” Mr. Hardy’s friends called him from his hiding place, and showed him lying behind a fallen tree, the bodies of Moody and his son. The old man was shot through the temple as he was looking over a log, and his son’s back was broken, he having attempted to run away after his father was killed. Both were dead. Mr. Hardy and the trappers then returned to the house, but finding it empty looked into the barn, and there discovered the two women in a cellar under the building, digging a grave for him. There were twenty skeletons in the place. Moody and his son had killed every stranger who had visited their lair during several years. Before Mr. Hardy left the country the women were hung. Moody’s remains and those of his son were also hung on a tree near the side of th road, as a warning to murderers. COURT COMMENT