The age-herald., 1897-08-03
fBySE IF ATLANTA FAME
By No Means a Stranger to Bir- s.4 mingham.
HE HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE
Ard Won the Coed Graces of We'll Known Legal Light-Was Here Again Yes
 terday Trying His Old Dodge.


 decidedly English cut of his long, curly hair. walked into the Metropolitan hotel ASunday night and asked for a room. He wrote the name J. E. Moyss on the r=g- lister in full, round hand, and retired at once.
 sIGlrly yesterday morning he was out iaI ] gone. His name attract q consid- er1ble attention from the fact that one J. F. Moyse figured in quite a sensa- 'tional affair in Atlanta during the past week.
 The Atlanta Moyse was adjudg { paranoiac by expert physicians Instead ~of being goaded to acts of ssperation by his madne ss, the Atlanta Moyse was filled with graItliloquent notions. He .imagined himself lawy=r of national .renown and voluntarily assisted the le gal defenders of the celebrated mur- -ds Ter, Flanagan.
 |. Early in the week he began circulating among the lawyers, among whom was CcIorel W. c. Glenn. To this gentle man he introduced himself as Coonsl J. L. Moyse, of the gal firm of Lloyd, Moyse & West, of New York. He made .the impression that the firm which he srepres nted were the attorneys for the Crescent Brewing company. His busi-' ness in the south he stated, was to de- -fend Secretary Matthews, of that com .pany, in a murder case to be trisd at, Rome Ga. Colonel Moyse declared that. he needed the aid of Colon=l Glern in sthe case and represented that $1,000 had been deposited in the Fourth National bank as an inducem mt for the Atlanta attorney to take hold of the case.
 Colonel Glenn was a membsr of the counsel in the Flanagan case, and Moyse assisted him in this trial, ostensibly for sthe purpos= of hurrying through so both could go to Rome and take up the Mat thews murder case
 The alleged New York lawyer bscame 50 enthused over the insandty plea that he decided to adopt this course in the Matthews case and employed two exp rts to accompany him to Rome to examine his client.
 A Moyse acknowledged that Matthews .r-was as same as any man, but that he would work the insa nity dodge to save his neck He told wonderful stories of the many prominent cases he had handled and was holding high hand when Col Glenn found upon investiga- tion, that no such case as Moyse repre- scented, was in the courts at Rome. os
 This lead to an Investigation as to his sanity. While being examined by the eX1 perts he admitted his msntal deranse- msrt, and declared, laughingly. that his s every act had .sbeen fake and He" q Sunday he was placed upon the train e en route to Birmingham and. according v to the Constitution, the authorities here ! Were to be notified to take him in charge {. a nd send him to his home at Greenville. 7 Miss.
 < BIRMINGHANI'S MOYSE. D If the J. S. Moyse who arrived ill D;r- Y min gham Sunday is the man who took in . the Atlanta lawyers. he was not taken in ~charge by the authorities and they re- ceived no information of his arrival until MT John D. Evans was informed by Moyse himself.
 T. v-as discovered that a !. s. Moyss. hai from Greenville, Miss, had visif- ed Birmingham on or about July 21. This Moyse was suffering from delusional monomaLia, but instead of telling of grandeur in legal attachments, he repre- scented himself as a gigantic land owner and the city was to be made millions of dollars better off by his sojourn in it's midst. a --s
 When Birmingharn's paranoiao Moyse got short of funds was the only time he consulted legal talent.
 The loser in the transaction is MT. R. H. Fries, a prominent attorney with offices in dhe Chalifoux building. MT. Fries tells the story in his own words as follows: - MIR. FRIES STATEMENT.
 U. L. Moyse, whose parents live in Greenville, Miss and who are very re- otah n nf ba- ing a fraud. "Moyse is about "A or 25 years of age. and came to Birmingham on or about ? July 21. and represented to J. H. Patton, the Fourth avenue liveryman, that he had bought up large tract of land in Meridian, Miss He also stated that he had bought 150 acres of land from Dr. Joseph R. Smith. of this city. ard that he would require the hiring of a q horse and buggy every day for two or three months at D. m. He then rep resented that I was his attorney. For some reason MT. Patton suspected ,hat these representations were untrue and called at Dr. Smiths office and on my . self, and found that these repr esen at .ois were as imaginary as the Rome, Ga. law case.
 
 clerk of Chas Halter a prominent ncr- chant of Greeuville, Miss. Vary frankly he exp ainet that h.. asshort on finance because of having spent too much money at the Tennessee Centennial. knew MT. Halter had a clerk by the name of Moyse and he asked for the loan Of few dol- lars, because, as he explained, he saw no use in going to the expense of sending for it. I let him have the money.
 "He is highly intelligent. well read, a smooth talker,' with a full and geaial knowledge of the world. His energies and ability properly applied woulI make a great success in any undertaking ~
 MT. Fries is not Of the opinion thai Moyse is insane
 MIR. PATTON TALKS.
 MT. Patton. the liveryman. was seen at his place of business. Said he: 'I remen- Der the man, Moyse, well. He was just smooth taller and did not think he wac man, al 1l1t da,.o nra,s