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BURGLAR'S WIFE TILLS OF HER LIFE MRS. J. C MOORE RELATES EXCITING INCIDENTS COVERING PERIOD OF SEVERAL YEARS. (From The Columbia State) A waik through a park witti companions from a girl's boarding house; a meeting with an anient admirer in a park; a quick courtship and an engagement; unyielding objection to the match by the girls iamer; -a element through a window from the s? hool; a hasty marriage and then? well then, an 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 oper a safe and the wife is a prisoner cn the third floor of the Richland county jail. Mrs. Moore, who didn't care to give her maiden name when seen yesterday in the county jail, is a decided blonde of sturdy type. She cays she is 20 years old and even after having undergone during the past two days, close questioning at the hands of officers who have been endeavoring to procure information from her, she does not seem wcrn nor exhausted. She smokes incessantly, lighting one cigarette after the other and inhalirg deeply almost al! the smoke. There was no evidence of nervousness in her behavior yesterday, but she has been given opportunity to rest during the day. Mrs Moore makes no objection to ' * ?the man talking- about r.er wm^i ? who met death at Trenton while blowing a safe. "I thought I loved him at first," she said, "but I know now there can be no real love unless there is respect "You see, I was just a kid when I met him. I was attending a hoarding school near Huntington, W. Va., several years ago, and the authorities would permit the girls to walk out through the park. "Once when we were in the park I met Mr. Moore. I was just a kid and he seemed very fond of me?he was 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 him. "I was the youngest in the family and I guess I was spoiled. Well, dad nearly ran Mr. Moore off the place wher: he asked for me?he was suspicious of him from the first. I was taken out of school and was kept at heme. "After some time I persuaded father to let mt return to school, and then one night Igot 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 husband did?see, I was young and ignorant. "He was a prince to me. Never spoke a cross word to me throughout our acquaintance and while I would sometimes get mad all over and fly off, he always was kind and * considerate. ' "My nuSDanc. \va> air.,.JO itself, but I wanted to leave him. I tried to make him jealous?would let him hear conversations over the telephone 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 lr:d $38,000 in cash and bonds on my bed. "I took some cf the bonds to Atlanta with which to buy some clothes. I was afraid to try to cash the $1,000 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 cash more bonds, but these bonds had been registered and between my visits there had beer, come investigation. Word had reached the office to hold mc in conversation if I came back tc cash more bonds. So the clerk talked to me?tried to flirt?and when I came down in the elevator it seemed like the whole detective force of Atlanta was after me. I squealed then?there didn't seem to be anyiWtMMAlei/i f A ' UUII^Ci^ kv uv> "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 came to mc in Augusta "My husband came to me there? he did not upbraid me 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 offi-1 cers would surely be after him and j told him I would let him know how things were. But I intended to be somewhere else when he retu Ted to ! Augusta for me." Without any more emotion than a v oman would display in showing how a dress was made, Mr:. Moore tolc of her husband's movements; of ai accident that happened to the car sh< and ho were riding in while in Co lumbia, of his having to go to bet foi treatment while recovering fron injuries and x the low state of theii finances when lie recovered. "He blew the Blythewood bank am got $1,165 from there," she said "At Roberta. Ga., he lost his car?hat to leave in a hur y. From Augusts lie did the Blythewood robbery ant then we moved to Columbia. "I had gotten him to promise tha he would quit after this season. See safe blowers do not w^rk in the sum mer?the winter is their season. "After we had moved to Columbu r.\\ husband did the Little Mountaii job and then tried Blackstock, bu lost out there. "Then he worked Gilbert. At Gil bert he only got $15?he blew th< wrong safe and did rot have time t< blew the other before he had to ge away. The last job was at Whit* Oak. Here he got about $5,000 ii bonds, which were burned. He go about $200 in money, cf which $12.51 was in gold. "For the Trenton job, he got hi dynamite in Brookland. He trough it home and boiled it and t' Id me h< was going in the country. He wen to Trenton to get the DanK. wna happened at Trenton is well known "He always had confidence in mi r.nd kept nothing from me." When asked what disposal was madi of bonds and stamps, Mrs. Moore said "New cards would be gotten for thi war saving stamps and they wouh be put on these new cards. If th bonds were registered, they were de ctroyed. If not registered, they couli be disposed of with considerable ease "Once after we had been away fror Columbus, we returned and found th house we had occupied had been burn ed down. Deep holes were dug al about the place where people ha been looking for buried money?the; lird gotten it, too. "Are my people living? Well.afte I had run away from school, m father was very bitter and forbad any communication with me. I hear from a sister occasionally, and one she wrote me that father had ha a stroke cf paralysis and was call ing for me. I went to see him an he asked me to stay at home. I tol liim that if he were sick I would glac ily come to see him but that my plac was with my husband and that if h could not come to the home wit nr.e, why I would not come eithe: So I am just going to see how thing here turn out and do not care t give my maiden name." Mrs. Moore said her husband usual ly worked alone though she said h had accomplices on certain jobs whic were large. He was a man of littl education, she said, though he ha traveled over the United States. Sh said he was 42 years of age. "My husband never killed any on ir. his work as a safe blower," sai Mrs. Moore. "There had been som talk that he might have been invoh ed in a bobbery in Georgia in whic the night watchman was killed. "He never killed any one," she re peated. "I told him often that if man's life came in between him an the money or the bonds to let th n.oney and the bonds go. I told hir t *k/v,,rrV,t thp u*nrct thincr X VltVU^liV IV VI W .. o n\nn could do?to take a life. "I was often curious to know ho> he felt about religion," said this 2 years old woman who was marrie to a man more than twice her ag< "I used to tell him that I wishe he would live straight and that could lead a Christian life. He woul laugh and say, 'The idea of your be ing a Christian.' He didn't believ in God. I used to ask him if he wa not afraid of being killed. He woul say that he was not afraid tc die. "Mr. Mocre was not a jolly manhe was rather gloomy and was no talkative. He would tell me thing but he was not the kind to striki up acquaintances end exchange con fidences. "Once I remember he told me hov he came to take up blowing as ; profession. When he was a youn| chap he got in with two other boy; and they were about broke. Thej went into an Italian settlement in : city and began looking for money The Italians all lived in a tenemeni and they kept their trunks in on< room and stored their savings ir these trunks. These three young men ore of whom was J. C. Moore, entered the house and broke open the trunks with a bread axe and secured between $2,000 and $3,000. "The Italians soon came swarming rut after them 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 unacr 'che moving freight train and got out on the other side and escaped into some woods. He told me the other two boys were hanged. I do not know in what city this occurred." Mrs. Moore has voiced few regrets over her stirring past but yesterday -re said, "They say your father al ways knows best. My father tried 1 tc keep me from marrying Mr. Moore. 1 ant' if I had listened?we'l maybe ; tnings would have been different. - But Mr. Moore wac always very kind 1 to me. with never a cross word and 1 while we were not millionaire -, I alr ways had whatever I wanted. "I used to try to get him to stop 1 this business of safe blowing. He . was always lucky at cards, and for 1 amusement would often play, and i nearly always won. I tried to get him 1 To quit safe blowing and take un gambling: I know gambling is net the I best life, but it'- better than safe , blowing. But he always said lie did n't like to gamble and so he kept at his old business. i "I euess it doesn't matter about i using my picture," she sa?'d, when t leference was made to?a photograph. 4 I've had so much notoriety already . that when I go out from this jail ? every one will say, 'There gees that 3 safe blower's wife,' so I guess a litt tic more publicity won't matter one i way or the other. i "When Mr. Moore went on the Trent ton job, he and I were planning to ) buy an automobile. He has promised ice a red roadster?we were going to s see it when he came back from Trent ton. But he never came back." e Mrs. Moore was more nervous yest tcrday than she had been during the t day previous and showed much more , feeling when talking over the five p years of her life with the professional safe cracker. She said yesterday that she did nol know Portland Ned. For some time ' after Moore was shot and killed it g j was suspected in some quarters that he was Portland Ned, the convict who it will be recalled, escaped from the j governor's office at the state capitol some years ago. Portland Ned now however, is serving a term in the At larta penitentiary and, <is evidentlj rot the same as J. C. Moore. Wher j asked yesterday if she had a photo^ gTaph of Moore, Mrs. Moore uxid sh< did not?that hs would never have r V photograph taken of any kind. It is likely that Moore was knowi 1 under other names to law officers ovei y the country anil in investigations nov j under way other facts with regan to his life mav come out. e d ? I- Ten Million Motor Cars in 1921. d d The Bureau of Public Roads of th< 1- United States Department of Agri e culture repotts that the motor vehi e cle registration for the year 1921 wil h total approximately 10,325,000, re r. turns having been received from al s states except Virginia, Arizona an* o California, and estimates made fo these states on the basis of the othe: I- returns. This represents an increas< e cf more than a million over the 1921 h figure, or nearly 11 per cent.. Th< e greatest increase in registration weri d in industrial sections, the agriculture e sections in general showing a smalle: amount of increase, e WORRIED k HUSBANDS READ THIS a : d GUDE'S PEPTO-MANGAN IS THI e BEST TONIC FOB NERVOUS, n TIRED-OUT WIVES, a Is your wife "all tired out" an< f> ctoss and irritable much of the time' 0 Do the children "bother her to death1 d every day, and do the ordinary house i. hold tasks that she formerly perform d cd with ease seem now to overtax 1 her? In other words, do you ofter d come home to a house of trouble in !- stead of a house of joy and happiness 1 If your answer is "yes" to thes< s pointed questions, don't blame youi d wife until she has taken Gude's PeptoMangan with her meals for a few - weeks. She is simply run-down anc t neivous and needs the kind 01 iroi s that she will get in Gude's Peptoe Mangan to give her more vitality and - strength. For thirty years doctors have recommended Gude's Pepto-Mani grn as a first-class building-up tonic. 1 Sold by your druggist in both liquid ; and tablet form.?Advertisement. r NOTICE. i The County Board of Commission .? TIT:n; 1 n. A... u . ers ui rv iinajusuuig v^vunty win i cceive bids at their office in Kingstree. * S. C., on Tuesday, September 6th, and 1 on the first Tuesday in each month thereafter, for groceries in bulk lots for the chaingang for one month at a time. S. J. SINGLETARY, Countv Supervisor Williamsburg Co. 8-18-21-tf. DR. FRANK O. LENTZ I DENTIST Office Over Baggett's Jewelry Store, Main Street OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and 2 to 5 p. m. I WILL PAY 181 THE POUND FOR FAT HENS. MILLER'S MARKET. County Pernrd i? mailed to iiihsrn!K>rs at SI 50 the year, invaria; bly payable in advance. j?l Hi W iW I'll11 " 1 I IJ I WANT TO BUY A LOT OF ! GOOD FAT HENS AT 18* THE ; POUND. MILLER'S MARKET. "WW ray* i . | The beat dividend a man can I earn is the esteem of his asso[ dates and friends. He. has to : ! have character to do this of s | course. : I But one of the adjuncts which t j help along this esteem is the I man's APPEARANCE. Noth' | ing takes its place. 1 Royal Tailored Clothes simpli' i fy this need. They are made , I any way you like them?from any doth you desire?and the price, $25 and up. This means guaranteed ALL 1 PURE WOOL and guaranteed ALL PURE eatisfactlon. You'll ? be surprised to know what fine t clothes you can buy at so little cost. i SUITS $25 AND UP ' City Tailoring Shop 1 J J. V. 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