Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-12-15
Remarkable Identity Case.

A correspondent OF the Louisville Journal
describes 40 exciting casr, involving con-
plicsted question OF identity, which has been
on trial for week past in the Ada'r CIRCUIT
Court in kentucky, and was not concluded
at the time e writing:
In 1885, William Perry Moore, Of Month
cello, Ky, lad of seventeen years OF age,
lett bis mothers house 10 the night, declar.
ing bis intention of mover returning while
his mother lived. lie was entitled to an Co.
tate Of some fifteen or twenty Thousand dol
lars. His mother, who had iotermarried
with MIR. Shepherd, was his guardian, and
the administrator of her deceased husbands
estate, phn S. Moore, and not having beard
anything of her son, WIN. 2. Moore, and
surprising him to be dead, she, in lo45 or
1916. distributed among her children and
herself that portion Of the estate to which
the said William p. Moore would have been
entitled.
Iu 1854, Mrs. Marzaretta Moore appeared
10 Monticello, Kentucky, with her three
daughters, the eldest alb aut sixteen years OF
age, claiming I, be the widow and the chill
dren of Wm. p. Moore, deceased, whom she
married at Columbus, G orgia, in lS42
where they lived until 1915, when they re-
moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where they
continued To reside until 1853, wbeo the said
VIM. p Moore, died. The issue out OF
Chaucery to be tried is, whether these girls
are the children and heirs at law OF VIM. +.
Moore, Of Monticello. or not. The deposit
tons and other papers filed in the cause
would well nigh fiji halt bushel measure,
all of which are to be read, independent OF
e m hn
livered. The defendants prove. by way OF
Identification, that VIM p. Moore, OF Mon.
ticello, was feet s or 10 inches high, fair
skin, large foil eyes, broad shoulders, little
stopped, thin breasted, large hands and big
feet, careless gait and independent walk,
swings one arm more than the other 10 walk
ing, dimple in one cheek, and drawing
up of one corner of the mouth when he
smiled, light brown hair and bluesh grey
ewes, scar across the eye, extending u.
wards the temple, scar on the Jaw, good
teeth, but tho corner OF one vi the front
teeth little broken, fond of gambling, quick
to resent an assault, Of an untorgivIng dis
position, g..
The plaintiffs prove that Margaretta
Moore was married in Columbus. Ga, IN
1912, to one VIM. Perry Moore, who claimed
to have been bora 10 Kentucky, and BY nu-
merous persons living there and in B,ltl-
more, where he died OF consumption IN
1857 he is described in every particular
precisely as VIM. p. Moore, of Monticello,
is Observation-Disclosures, size, form, eyes, nose,
mouth, hair, teeth, scars, dinple. walk,
swing. hands, feet temper, disposition, oc'
cupation, (which was that Of gambler
&C., all correspond exactly. In addition 70
which two daguerreotype likenesses OF her
husband are produced, which, by various
witnesses, are proven to be good llkenesseS
of William p. Moore, of Monticello, aud by
various witnesses the great resemblance OF
the eldest girl, especially, to VIM. =. Moore,
of Monticello, and to his sisters, Mrs. Pierce
and Mrs Green, and his nieces, the Misses
Pierce, &c, and to bis uepbews, COUSINS,
&c; and then, again, defendants prove that
the daguerreotypes are not good Likeness
ses OF Vim. Z. Moore, of Monticello, aud
they prove further that lad by the name OF
VIM. p. Moore lived in Wheeling. Va; that
he left that place abort the year 1887, on u
steam boat called the Osceola, and said he was
going to Columbia, Ca, and they prove
further that one VIM. p Moore was killed
in Texas about 1912. who Is described pref
ty much rs Vim. 2. Moore, of Monticello, Is
described. IL would take volume to detail
the Incidents. condolences, and con'rarlesy
of statements made by the numerous Wit
nesses in the case.