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TALKS FURTHER OF MOORE'S LIFE ^ ia SAFE CRACKER'S WIDOW SAYS " HE NEVER TOOK A LIFE Man Killed at Trenton Pulled First Job With Two Boy Friends The State, 24. j s "Mv husband never killed any one : c * j -J in his work as a safe blower/' said Mrs. J. C. Moore at the Richland county jail yesterday. Mrs. Moore jy is the widow of J. C. Moore who was shot to death at Trenton last Monday night when he was in the act of blowing open a safe with nitroglycerine.: She has told of numerous robberies j jn which he was concerned and of; her work in selling some of the bonds i J a which were taken from safes in ciix- j ferent parts of the country. She has j,l told of the "jobs" at White Oak, a: j" Little Mountain, at Blythewood and n at various points in Georgia. There l! had been some talk that he might ! "M have been involved in a robberv in : " i +1 Georgia in which the night watchman j was killed. j " "He never killed any one," she re- j1 peated. "I told him often that if a j ^ man's life came in between him and * the money or the bonds to let the j* money and the bonds go. I told him jw I thought it was t).e worst thing a :? man could do?to take a life. i, "I was often curious to known how ; 1 i rr! Tl " Ctlld thlS 50 ! ^ lie icii auuui _ vears old woman who was married to 1 i J"1 to a man more than twice her age. j . "I used to tell him that I wished he j would live straight anjl that 1 could i (l lead a Christian life. He would la ugh'I \ and say, "The idea of your being a! ; -- - - - - Christian." He didn't beiieve m uaa.! I used to ask him if he was not afraid , of being killed. He would say that : " he was not afraid to die. v "Mr. Moore was not a jelly man? 0 he was rather gioomv and was not i ^ talkative. Ke would tell me things I but he was not the kind to strike up 1 I acquaintances and exchange cc'.ifi- j dences. Told of His Youth j ? "Once I remember he told me how . -1 he came to take up safe blowing ,;s a j profession. When he was a young i ~ - ^ \ u_;ib chap he got m wun two uun-i and they were about broke. They went , 5 into an Italian settlement in a city j and began looking for money. The ! n Italians all lived in a tenement and ; they kept their trunks in one room ; e and stored their savnigs in these v trunks. These three young men. one ^ of whom was J. C. Moore, entered the house and broke open the trunks ! " I Twith a broad axe and secured between ! n $2,000 and $3,000. t a "The Italians soon came swarming ! e out after them and caught up with j 11 the three in a freight yard. They were about to be hung when a freight a train passed. Mr. Moore broke away 11 from the crowd that had him and jw ran right under the moving freight ; ^ train and got out on the other side T: and escaped into some woods. He told me the other two boys were e hanged. I do not know in what city 1 d this occurred." Mrs. Moore has voiced few regrets -s over her stirring past but yesterday she said, 'They say your father always knows best. My father tried to keep me from marrying Mr. Moore, and if I had listened?well maybe things would have been different. But Mr. Moore was always very kind to me, with never a cross word and while we were not millionaires, I always had whatever I wanted. "I used to try to get him to stop this business of safeblovving. He was always lucky at cards, and for amusement would often play, and nearly always won. I tried to get him to quit safe blowing and take up gambling; I know gambling is not the best life, but it's better than safe blowing. But he always said he didn't like to gamble and so he kept at his old business. j "I guess it doesn't matter about ! using my picture," she said, when ref-! erence was made to a photograph, i I've had so much notoriety already that when I go out from this jail ev- j cry one will say. 'There goes that safe j blower's wife,' so I guess a little more ' publicity won't matter one way or \ the other. j Promised Machine "When Mr. Moore went on the ; Trenton job, he and I were planning j to buy an automobile. He has prom ised me a red roadster?we were go-' ing to see it when hr came back." Mrs. Moore was more nervous yes- j terday than she had been during the j dav previous and showed much move feeling when talking over the five ; years of her life with the professional j safe cracker. j She said yesterday that she did not j know Portland Ned. For some time : after Moore was shot and killed it i was suspected in some quarters thai ' he was Portland Xed, the convict who, ; it will be recalled, escaped from the ! governor's office at the state capitol j some years ago. Portland Xed now, iov over, is serving j term in the At- s penitentiary an<i is evidently not <; he same man as J. Moore. When ?? isked yesterday if she had a photo- h :raph of Moore, Mrs. Moore said she ]c lid not-*?that he would never have a holograph taken of any kind. It is likely that Moore was known 0, inder other names to law officers ov- s, r the country and in investigations (), ow under way other facts with re- , :ard to his life may come out. AFE CRACKER'S WIFE TELLS ABOUT HER LIFE tr Irs. J. C. Moore Relates Exciting ;; Incidents Covering Period cf Several Years J'~' he State, 23. I ni .-k waiK mroiijffi u pmix \wui i-om anions from a girls' boarding- school; "n meeting: with an anient admirer in *-? park; a quick courtship and an en-in agement; unyielding objection to the latch by the girl's father; an elopelent through a window from the .'hool; a hasty marriage and then? 'a 'ell then, an awakening to the fact * lat her husband was a safe blower;"* y profession. I>:d rhey live happily % irer after? The husband, J. C. Moore, e( 1 i. T,.n?4on !.,ct V* .IS snoi iU lU'ilLII itL l iCiiiuii Ionday morning when he was in ihe* cr of blowing open a safe and x'ne ^>? ife is a prisoner on the third tl.?or;~ f the Richland county jail. Mrs. Moore, who didn't care to give ! er maiden name when seen yester- j ay i"1 the county jail, is a decided ! londe 20 years old and even after aving undergone during ihe pus.: two avs close ouestioniiig at the hands f officers who have been endeavoring; a procure information from her. she; oes not seem worn nor exhausted. ' lie smokes incessantly, lighting one . 'paretic after the other anu inhaling, eep y almost all the smoke. There ;as no evidence of nervousness in her ; eha"ior vesterdav b"t she had been j * :veil opportunity 10 rest during the ! ay. Talks With Freedom Mrs. Moore makes no objection to i lilkin?, about her career with the man ! ;ho met death at Trenton while Oiowig a safe. ' 1 thought I loved him at first," he said, "but I know now there cant e no real love unless there is re-' pect. "You see, I was just a kid when I : let him. I was attending a boarding j chool near Huntington, W. Va., sevral years ago, and the authorities! rould permit girls to walk out trough a park. "Once when we were in the park I let Mr. Moore. I was just a kid and e seemed very fond of me?he was prince to me. He wanted me 10 lope with him, but I told .'lim to ask i iy dad and he would give me to him. "I was the youngest in the family 1 nd I guess I was spoiled. Well, dad j early ran Mr. Moore off the place J hen he asked for me?he was sus- j icious of him from the first. J was on el Lronf Vtnoir* .1 /\CiI l>Ul v; x ctnuui UUV4 ^ v? v .--- "After some time I persuader! fathr to let me return to school, and j hen one night I got out of the win- / ow and went away with Mr. Moore. 1 \ Vating C QUEEN OF PA "PALMAFESTA" Newberry Herald and News Gentlemen: My choice for Quet-n of Pa:ma Name Address This coupon is good for one vote. Ml' BMPMBBB?W? ? .'1 rK-n n a S n Fertilizer HIGH GF ?*i S lA ii! (Reg. i . S. Pat. O. P FOR SAL 111 Long & Scl |i| Prosperity inse that time \v< hav in every !.'it\* i'! " !"(. U! > . : I'D:' a )o(i wh lo I 11 'i :.ot :;;\v wr.at my usband did?see. I .. . > young and jnorant. "lie was a urine . i . X wr );:kc a cro.-- wm i : > :h? :;j<?-hout :iv acquaintance and while 1 woi;!d onetimes .?ev mad a.' over ami !ly T. he alwavs was kind ami cu. 'ate. Wanted to Leave Him "My husband \va^ always kindness self, but I wanted to leave him. 1 led to make him jealous?would let m hear conversations over the te!eso that he would get mad and ave. But he was so kind and eonderate that i could not make up my iind just to quit him. "I really was the cause of his heir arrested and serving time in eorg'a. One morning when we were Columbus, Ga., he came into my >om and laid $38,000 in cash and ands on my bed. "1 took some of the bonds to Atnta with which to buy some clothes. was afraicl Id v:\ to cash the $1,000 mds I tried my hand on one for ?00. It sold readily. I was all puffi up over my success; see, I was una: and ignorant. Then I tried to sh more bonds, but these bonds had en registered and between my visits Penirs s sells quality. Why? Because Penn's is packed airtight in the patented new container?the duality is sealed *n. So Penn's is always fresh. Have you ever really chewed fresh tobacco?. Buy Perm's the next time. Try it. Notice thefinc- condition?fresh-Perm's. CHEWING TOBACCO Jffl&y fixes jhuvL^ie&si'-- c/c1tzi?fff?Zx. ? ?3 oupon LMAFESTA festa is: i ii i I mutnTiiii ? i !< ! Works 11 IADE | | a standard I S *il C^T Down i I ffJ to 'u price ||g lurnperc r,s-c- HI there had been some investigations \\ or:i had readied *, u- uSure lo 11?)' me in conversation if I came hac!\ to It m;>re oord-'. v,> tiH' .talked to r.:e?tried to flirt?an-: when I came down in the elevator seemed like the wo'-* detective lorci. oi .-\uania was .\ i t*: a:e. 1 :i?there . S i t i n * * seen: to be anythinjr else to <! >. j "So my husband \va- sen: to the J Geor^ra penitentiary on a 20 ye:;i sentence. He served two years <>! it ?you see. they kept changing hin" from cell to cell so rapidly that !u could r.ot get out. Ku. he left the prison after two years and came to me in August a. ! "My n us nana came to mo mi'iu? j lie did not upbraid me for squealing on him?said then- was nothing else ;1 could do, I being1 a woman. I urged .him to leave town, told him the officers would surely be after him and .". hi him I would let him know how things were. But 1 intended to be j somewhere else when he returned to Augusta for me." Without any more emotion than a woman would display in showing how a dress was made. Mrs. Moore told of her husband's movements; of an accident that happened to the car she ami he were riding in while in Co1 ..... 1. U ? ?.!? , /# r a r.' t* 4 r\ f /??> lUIiiUIcl, <H II1S IltlVlilp iu n; uvu i"i , treatment while recovering- from injuries and of the low state of their j finances when he recovered. ! "He blew the Blythewood bank and j got $1,165 from there," she said. "At ! Roberta, Ga., he lost his car?had to | leave in a hurry. From Augusta he did the Blythewood robbery and then we moved to Columbia. 1 "I had gotten him to promise that he would quit after this season. See, 'safe blowers do not work in the sumj | mer?the winter is their season, i "After we had moved to Columbia I my husband did the Little Mountain iob and then tried Blackstock, but lost out there. i ; i I Xru ^ I i I I e { The universal 5 by tlxo 4&ct that thjf in tt-f r> n'( /\rir ?r> t IS * iii i LO ItA^l-Kjiy JUi. . Th&sa'cs of I92C,- litwithst-ifj cars soljl of all r tla in i 920. Stared j$ : 129 and the t. tai j I . Th^rfiumber (J; in both Greater Nj exceeded the sulci Studcbaker is j cars. J The onlv pc| \Studebaker Carsl pendable perforiJ stand up in scrvij the tact that our sj than they were i? .cars were sold anl on the total estiirJ | tion in 1921, we | pairs lrom ail caf The materials measure up to t mobile industry. not be obtained c necessarily mear prices are not b; duction -costs of cording to thei . * f i Obviously, nign <j incompetence or I not only high pr With $70,00 $36,000,000 of i passed in ability 2 and give the gre t* ice. The Stud] 1700 Broadway! I ! S-Po?.| ChdSsi Tourin Rotdtf Coupe Sedan I fl This advertisement " Truth :s Mrchiy and Shall Prevail" recently appeared in the leading nriispapers throughout the country. It hes been proclaimed to be the most powerful automobile advertisement ever written. Ik f . | i' i hen he worked Gii06rt> At Gil- . j i)!'!: he only tfoi -> 1 ?he i>: w ih" ; wronjr safe and did noi have time tor, . :?lo\v the other before he h:u! t<> j;el i i away. The las: job was at White | !0:ik. Here he u'<>t about $">,000 in i . T 1 ?><>; (is. which were burned. He ^ot. ; ' ! ahuot $200 in money of which $ 1 2.~>0 i was in ?oifl. Goes to Trenton i '.i.-.,. *u.. ;..u u.. i tin.- i i r:mi.i in' . dynamite in Rrookland. He brought it' l ' home and boiled it and told me lie i i was going in the country. He went to ! i; Trenton to sect the .'jank. What hap-' i . ; pened at Trenton is well known. 1 ; "He always had confidence in me and kept nothing from me." When asked what disposal was 'Imade of bond* and stamps. Mrs.; '.Moore said, "New cards would be j gotten for the war saving stamps and i i they would be put on these new cards. ! If the bond* were registered, they j ' were destroyed. If not registered,! i > > > i i i> ...l. ... : I/ley COUIU up disposed (U n ull i-unsm- , , orable ease. ; "Once after we had been away j from Columbus, we returned and i found the house we had occupied had I been burned down. Deep holes were j ' idug all about the place where people had been looking for buried money? they had gotten it, too. "Are my people living? Well, after j ' JI had run away from school, my fath er was very bitter and forbade any communication with me. I heard from a sister occasionally, and once she wrote me that father had had a stroke of paralysis and was calling for me. T n'^nf coo V?im sin/1 Vim aelfprl mp to stay at home. I told him that if he j | were sick I would gladly come to see j him but that my place was with my j husband and that if he could not come j to the home with me, whv I would i , not come either. So I am just going .to see how things turn out and do not care to give my maiden name." I Mrs. Moore said her husband usu-! j ally worked alone though she said he j J? i Studebaker is a specialist. nothing but Sixes. Its efforts scattered. lis entire resource* passed in the automobile i are devoced to a single, fixed j ? to build well, by using tl^ materials, and most skillfu manship and to sell at the prices possible. [ low well Studebaker has su is best answered by the recc the calendar year of 1921, Stu produced and sold more six < cars than any other manufac the world. From present indications tJ record of Studebaker cars i will greatly exceed 1921. from Studebaker dealers f: parts of the country show a crease in sales this year o same period of 1921. 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