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Mrs. J. C. Mo Cracker K Ht A walk through a park with companions from a girls' boarding school; I a meeting with an ardent admirer in a park; a quick courtship and an en-J gagement; unyielding objection to the match by the girl's father; an elope- i znent through a window from the school; a hasty marriage and then? well then, awakening to the fact that her husband was a safe blower by profession. Did they live happily ever after? The husband, J. C. Moore, was shot to death at Trenton last Monday morning when he was in the act of blowing open a safe and the wife is a prisoner on the third floor of the Richmond county jail. Mrs. Moore, who didn't care to give her maiden name when seen yester- j ~ * * - j day in the county jail, is a aeciaea blonde of sturdy type. She says she Is 20 years old and even after having undergone during the past two days, close questioning at the hands of offi'cers who have been endeavoring to procure information from her, she does not seem worn or exhausted. She smokes incessantly, lighting one cigarette after the other and inhaling deeply almost all of the smoke. There was no evidence of nervousness in her behavior yesterday but she had been given opportunity to rest during the day. ^ Talks With Freedom. Mrs. Moore makes no objection to talking about her career with the man who met death at Trenton while blowing & safe. "I thought I loved him at first," she said, "but I know now there can toe no real love unless there is respect. "You see, I was just a kid when I met him. I was attending a boarding school near Huntington, W. Va., several years ago, and the authorities would permit the girls to walk out through a park. "Once when we were in the park 1 met Mr. Moore. I was just a kid and he seemed very fond of'me?he wap a prince to me. He wanted me to elope with him, but I told him to ask my dad and he would give me to ihim. "I was the youngest in the family and I guess 1 was spoiled. Well, dad *? "Vf/ir,i?o nfF tho nlapp neany ran jh. vu. ?uv when he asked for me?he was suspiscious of him from the first. I was d taken out of school and was kept at home. "After some time I persuaded father to let me return to sdhool, and then one, night I got out of the window and went away with Mr. Moore. Since that time we have been in every state .in the union, I suppose. For a good while I did not know what my hus, hand did?see, I was young and ignorant. V'He was a prince to me. in ever spoke a cross word to me throughout our acquaintance and while I-would sometimes get mad all over and fly v off, fhe^ always was kind and considerate. Wanted to Leave Him. "My husband was always kindness itself, bqt I wanted to leave him. I tried to make him jealotis?would let him hear conversations over the telev. * v i phone so that he would get mad and leave. But he was so kind and considerate that I could not make up my mind just to quit him. "I really was the cause of his being arrested and serving 'time in Georgia. One morning when we were in Columbus, Ga., he came into my room and laid $38,000 in cash and bonds on I my bed. "1 tooK some or rue Donas to -Atlanta with which to buy some clothes. I was afraid to try to cash the $1,4)00 bonds so I tried my hand on one for $500. It sold readily. I was all puffed up over my success; see, I was young' and ignorant. Then I tried to casih more bonds, but these bonds had been registered and between my visits I there had been some investigation. Word had reached the office to hold me in conversation if I came back to cash more bonds. So the clerk - -- - i-i-j x _ a ItaiKea to me?trieu iu uui?auu wlhen I came down in the elevator it seemed like the whole detective force of Atlanta were after me. I squealed then?there didn't seem to be anything else to do. "So my husband was sent to the Georgia penitentiary on a 20 year sentence. He served two years of it? you see, they kept changing him from cell to cell.so rapidly that he could not get out. But he left the prison after two years and come to me in Augusta. "My husband came to me there? Ihe did not upbraid mc for squealing on him?said there was nothing else I could do, I being a woman. I urged him to leave town, told him the officers would surely be after him and told him I would let him know how things were. B^t I intended to be ore, Wife of Sc .illed at Trentoi :r Life With th 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 and he were riding in while in Columbia, of his having to go to bed for treatment while recovering from injuries and of the low state of their finances when he recovered. v "He blew the Blythewood bank and 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. "I had gotten him to promise that he would quit after this season. See, safe blowers do not work in the summer?the winter is their season. "After we had moved/to Columbia my husband did ,the Little Mountain job and then tried Blackstock; but lost out there. "Then he worked Gilbert. At Gil bert he only got *i;>?ne Diew tne wrong safe and did not have time to blow bhe other before he had to get away. The last job was at White Oak. Here he got about $5,000 in bonds, which were burned. He got about $200 in money, of which $12.50 was in gold. Goes to Trenton. | "For the Trenton job, he got his dynamite in Brookland. He brought it home and boiled it and told me ihe was going in the country. He went to Trenton to get the bank. What happened at Trenton is well known. "He always had bonfidence in me and kept nothing fiom me." When asked what disposal was made of bonds and stamps, Mrg. Moore said, "New cards would be gotten for the war saving stamps j and they would be put on these new j cards. If the bonds were reg 191C1CU tUCJ n vuiu w vtvwA vj If not registered, they would be disposed of with considerable ease. "Once after we had' been away I from Columbus we returned and found the house we had occupied had been burned down. Deep holes were dug all about the place where people had been looking for buried money? they had gotten it, too. "Are my people living? Well, after I had run away from school, my father 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. I went to see ihim and he asked me to stay at home. I tolc'l him that if he were sick I would "* a. _ ? l_ i? 1 1 4.1 giaaiy come 10 see aim out mai m* place was with my husband and that if he could not come to the home with me, why I would not come either. So I am just going to see how things here turn out and do not care to give my maiden name." Mrs. Moore said her husband usu^ ally worked alone though she said he had accomplices on certain jobs which were large. He was a man of little education, she said, though he had traveled over the United States. She said he was 42 years of age. Xever Killed Anyone. "My husband never killed any one in his work as a safe blower," said Mrs. J. C. Moore at the Richland county jail Friday. Mrs. Moore 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 in wihich he was concerned and ot her work in selling some of the bonds which were tasen rrom saies in ainerent parts of the country. She has told of the "jobs" at White Oak, at Little Mountain, at Blythewood ana at various points in Georgia. There had been some talk that he might have been involved in a robbery in Georgia which the night watchman was killed. "He never killed any one," she repeated. "I told him often that if a man's life came in between him and the money or the bonds to let the money and the bonds go. I told him I thought it was the worst thing a ma could do?to take a life. "I was often curious to know how he felt about religion," said this 20 years old woman who was married to a man more than twice her age. "I used to tellihim that I wished he would live straight and that I could lead a Christian life. He would laugh and say, 'The idea of your being a Christian.'- He didn't believe in God. I used to ask him if he was not afraid of being killed. He would say that he was not afraid to die. "Mr. Moore was not a jolly man? "he was rather gloomy and was not ife % Tells of e Slain Robber talkative. He would tell me things but he was not the kind to strike up acquaintances and exchange confidences. Told of His Youth. "Once I remember he told me how he came to take up safe blowing as a profession. When he was a young ohap he got in with two other boys and they went about broke. They, vent into an Italian settlement In a city and began looking for money. The Italians ail uvea m a lenemeui and they kept their trunks in one room and stored their savings in these trunks. These three young men, one of whom was J. C. Moore, entered tihe house a"d broke open the trunks with a broad axe and secured between $2,000 and $3,000. "The Italians soon came swarming out after then and caught up with the three in a freight yard. They were about to be .hung when a freight train passed. Mr. Moore broke away from the crowd that had him and ran right under the moving freight train and got out on the other side end escaped into some woods. He told me the other two boys were hanged. I do not know in what city this occurred." \fr? \fnnrp has vnired few regrets over her stirring past "but yesterdayshe 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 safe blowing. He was always lucky at cards, and for amusement would often play, and nearly always Von. I tried to get him to q,uit safe blowing and take up gambling; I know gambling is not the best life, hut it's better than sa!fe blowing. But he always said he didn't like to gamble and so he kept at his old business. "I guess it doesn't matter about using my picture," she said, when reference was made to a photograph. "I've had so much notoriety already that when I go out from this jaii every one will say, 'There goes that safe blower's wife,' so I guess a little more publicity won't matter one way or the other. PmmieA^ Mar hi ne. "When Mr. Moore went on the Trenton job, he and I were planning to buy an automobile. He had promised me a red roadster?we were going to see it when he came back from Trenton. But he never came back." Mrs. Moore was more nervous yesterday than she had been during the day previous and showed much more feeling .when talking over the five years of her life with the professional safe cracker. She said yesterday that she did not know Portland Ned. For some time after Moore was shot and killed it was suspected in some quarters that he was Portland Ned, the convict, who it will be recalled, escaped from the governor's office at the state capitol some years ago. Portland Ned now, however, is serving a term in the Atlanta penitentiary and, is evidently not the same man as J. C. Moore. When asked yesterday if she had a pfhotograph of Moore, Mrs. Moore said she did not?that he would never have a photograph taken of any kind. It is likely that Moore was known under other names to law officers over the country and in investigations now under way other facts with regard to his life may come out.?The r State. KILLS HIMSELF IN ASYLUM. % George Ashe, of York County, Uses Rope and Belt. I Columbia, March 22.?George I Ashe, a young man about thirty years j of age from York, committed suicide I at the state hospital for the insane - *- ? "?A ^ ?V*/% ftrtoAr/lino' t r\ T I 13.SL Qlglli. Aaiic, avwiuiuQ >. w u j Blakely Scott, coroner for Richland I county, tied his belt and a window cord together, threw a noose around I his neck and hanged himself from a ; ceiling radiator heating pipe. 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