Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-21
BURGLAR MOORE.
A Criminal History Which Car
ries a Moral.
yILLAIsY SURE TO CONE TO GRIEF

And Honesty Pays beat in the Long Run
"A Man Whose suec~ssfui Robberies
Aggregated Hundreds OF Thousands
renniiess and Foriorn In Hts Old Age.
While His Wife Il n Paup~r-some Of
Hts Ad ventures.
NEW YORK. Nov 81 -Rebecca Moore.
SSlsasnnt-faced. poorly dressed woman.
Wednesay TO prosecute her husband,
Lapgd5n W. Moore. tall. soldierly look
ing nan Of about 50 years of age, for
non support. The prisoner said that he
had been out OF work for some time and
tEAt he had no money. He finally admit
ted that he had been in prison In Charles
towp, Mass. and had only been released
on Sept last, after serving a ten-year
svntence for bank robbery. His wife adj
mitted that in the past he used to liber-
ally provide for her Justice welde 6is-
charged him, and IS he strobe out of
court few knew that his criminal history
was written in the records of Scotland
Yard, Paris and New York
His First Big Burglary.
Moore was born in New Hampshire in
1870. He was first known in New York a.
. restaurant keeper. but he moved away
to farm at Natick. Mass, in 1855. On
Sept. Is OF that year the Concord National
hank was robbed Of S3o5. 900 in bonds F.f-
teen days after this occurrence Moore left
his farm and went to Paulsboro n. j.,
where he posed rs a man of means, and
where he was arrested charged with the
| a "a IN k.4 <lfav ...l
to compromise the case. aud did 50, Civ
ing up Ssoe, 3Sl. In 1876 he went 20 Jersey
City, where he married Mrs. Rsbecca Gun
ningham. the widow OF -Daa" Cunning
ham, well-known sporting man and
companion OF John Morrissey. Moore
was then wealthy. and reputed to be worth
s25O. COO, an enormous fortune in those
days.
Had Very Tight Abb
Moore spent si0 900 in fitting up his
house. Every few weeks he would 20
away for "A few days, and on his return
would bring plenty Of money with him.
on one occasion tossing S10,U0 into his
wife's lap. One day he was arrested-six
months after his marriase-and taken to
Buffalo, where he was charged with tax
Ing part in a bank robbery. A par,or car
was chartered by Moore and host of
witnesses were taken there TO prove an
alibi. Grover Cleveland, then Buffalo
lawyer, defended Moore. Owing To the
fact that the robbery occurred on Moore's
wedding day. and the tightness Of the
alibi, he was acquitted. Soon after, il is
said, he lost slo0. 90 in eight weeks at
faro. He moved to New York.
Wouida't Be RoES
He returned to Ma -
that his wife ani ehiidre4 NJ
with man named 1hoa, ter
searching some time he learnt % hey
| frequented a saioOi. at Sixth WHIT: and
Eighth street At Il idnight a. lay in
wait for them, and drawing r,volver
tried TO shoot Thompson. lie was pre-
vented from killing hini. Int drew a
knife and siGshed ThompsoH. 90! sag him
horribly on the face. lie WA e in g..
600 bail, and his usual luck easl.- - hi,
aid. and he was discharged. lil> wife
the same one who applied for reli,
acknowledgements back to him
Two Gangs In the Same Job.
He next served ten years in prison for
| rohbing the Charlestown. Mass, postof-
| fee. and was Supposed 10 have been one
of the Lechmsre bank Cambridge rob.
gangs-ene from Chicago and tae other
from New York-were both waiting to do
the job unknown to each other. and so
close were the Chicago parties behind
that they all divided the spoilS Shortly
before Moore's last arrest, and the i'm
| prisoument from which he has just
emerged, he planned to rob the Quincy
| (Mass) bank He and George Mason,
alias Jardner, visited the place and got a
look at the safe
| Reduced to Pauperism at the Rad.
II was pronounced very easy aud every
thing was ready. when Mason was ar.
rested for another jC5. Moore got away
and Mason go: angry because Moore did
nothing TO help his (Mason'sl family. and
betrayed Moore's whereabouts and the in
formation that he robbed the Charles
town postoffice vaults Moore was ar
rested and convicted
And these two people were in dingy
| police court Wednesday-the msn penui
less, the woman a pauper-and both old
| and worn-lookinc