The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-10

erty. No case could be made. however,
and they continued their flight westward,
go ng first to Auckland, New Zealand,
and then to Sidney, New South Wales. In
both of these places Moore tried, but
failed. to get any work on the newspapers,
and The unhappy pair made their way to
England second-class, and perhaps steer
age. The trip is something neither of
them would ever speak about. Their
money was all gone and they were in
deer, dangerous poverty.
Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of the New
York World, and Moore's employer while
he was managing editor of the Post-Dis-
match, told the writer: II was walking
down the Strand one day when saw a
man look at me and then hurriedly turn
his back and walk into public house. l
thought it looked like Moore, although l
couldn't believe it was he, because the
fellow was shabby beyond belief, and you
know / can't see very well anyhow. /
left my friends and went into the house
and there was Moore, standing against
the bar. / asked him what he was doing,
and he just used one word Starving
rs Mrs. Norton with your l asked him.
He said she was. l asked him if couldn't
do something for him, for liked Moore
and like him to-day. He did mag nificent
work for the Post Dispatch. Well, the end
of it was that fixed him up and sent
him to New York to work on the World,
and Mrs. Norton accompanied him. Mr..
Coclxerill arranged place for him and
that was the last heard of HIM for some
time"
But Moore was heard from before very
| long. He and Mrs. Norton had a most
sensational row in their lodgings on AID
street. and all the New York papers and,
| of course, all the St. Louis papers, gave
columns to a description of the fight.
| They parted for the time being, and Mrs.
Norton at that time said TO the writer,
who met her i'm New Yerk, that the story
of her elopement from John w. Norton
had never been properly told. She said:
81 would not to-day give John Norton's
little finger for Henry Moore's whole body.
l did not know what was doing, nor did
l ever intend to leave John"
Friends made every effort to effect q re-
| Cancellation, but Norton, of course, de-
clned. Shortly afterward Moore died in
a New York hospital, and there were just
| two people at his funeral, Mrs. Norton and
n reporter whom Moore had befriended in
| St. Louis.
Mrs. Norton is now connected with a
| Philadelphia museum, and is said to have
lost all of her beauty. Norton could
| hardly be appro tcned by any OF his
friends. Judge Norwich, vino afterwards
committed suicide. and Mr.. McCullagh,
the editor of the Globe DBloncrdt, were the
two men to whom he opened his heart.
Curously enough, the prize fighter, was
the only other man with whom Norton was
1 for years on familiar terms. He fitted up
n suite of of rooms for himself most lux
uriousy IN tho Grand o era house build
ing in St. LOUIS, aud he was 4 constant
figure at Tony Faust's restaurant. From
the day his W. fe left him he never men,
tione her name, except in the divorce
proceedings.
Less than six weeks ago he said, in
reference to the rumor that he was about
to marry Louise Montague: II have done
ali the marrying l lnten to do. If could
spend the rest OF my life out at the hos
pital of the Sisters OF Charity with those
good women about me-women that you
can trust and respect-that would be my
ideal life. Since | was child l have
never had any such complete peace and
SO full confidence in women as have had
in the hospital here after my wife lett
| me.D