The San Francisco call., 1898-12-23
THE BADGER CAME
 WORKED AGAIN Troubles of an Oregon Young Woman. SETS ALL NEW YORK TALKING DENIES THAT SHE WAS ANY PARTY TO THE PLOT. Police of the Metropolis Think They Have Made Out a Strong
 Case, Neverthe-
 less.
SETS ALL NEW YORK TALKING
DENIES THAT SHE WAS ANY
 PARTY TO THE PLOT.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec 22.-The taking of evidence in the case of Payne Strahan Moore, accused of robbery in the first degree was resumed to-day before Re corder Golf. Three witnesses gave testimony confirming that of Martin Mahon, the alleged victim of the bad ger game. Then Mrs. Fannie E. John son, who lives in West Fifty-seyenth street, where it is alleged Mahon took Mrs. Moore, said she knew Mahon and also the defendant, but did not know William E. Moore. She testified that she had asked Payne Moore in the Tombs why she did not turn States evidence. Mrs. Johnson broke down at this point and shed many tears. In reply to question she said Favne Moore said she would not turn States evidence because she was afraid Moore would kill her. The rest of her tes- tlmony was given up to answering questions more or less irrelevant to the case, and then a waiter from the Metropole, who served dinner to MT. Mahon and the alleged Mrs. Moore. was put on the stand.
 This ended the case for the prosecu- the defense. moved for a dismissal of the complaint on the ground that the prosecution had failed to establish its case. The motion was denied.
 Annie Fitzgerald, matron of the City Prison, was called as the next witness for the defense. She denied having heard Mrs. Johnson advise Mrs. Moore to turn States evidence, and also de- nied other parts of Mrs. Johnson s evidence. At this point the court ad- journed.
 Later in the evening the court was again called to order and the time was devoted to the continued testimony of Mrs. Fitzgerald. After her came Rev. ogden Homas, rector of St. Matthews Protestant Episcopal Church, in West Eighty y-fourth street, wno testified that on April 1, 1887, he performed a mar r1age ceremony between William A. K. Moore and Payne Strahan. He said the defendant was the woman. Moore was brought into court and pr. Homas identified him as the man.
 Payne Moore was then called to the stand and examined by MT. Hill She said that she was born on February 23 ltFf. Her father was Judge of the Su- preme Court of Oregon when he died In July, 1887. She then removed to At
 
 the spring of 1896. She came here. she said, with the intention of completing her musical studies. She went to Eu- rope, returning in July, 1896. She said that she first met Mahon in August. 1896, on the occasion of a musicale at the Amsterdam Hotel. She said that Mahon had, uninvited, called upon her when she was living at Gramercy Park. Mahon, she said, told her he was a married man but O0t 1,-;+l, his wife
 lie frequently took her carriage rid ing and to the theater She then went to Atlanta, and, on returning, took a room at Mrs. Johnson's house at Mahon's suggestion. She said the last time she had seen Mahon previous to her marriage to Moore was in January. lS9i She told of her trips with Moore Tn this country and abroad She then said that on the morning of November 4 she received telephone message from Manon asking her to take supper at the MetrGpole. The rest of her testi- mony recounted the supper in the rooms of the Grenoble, to which hotel they had later gone, and the one in which Moore appeared and demanded money from Mahon. She also spoke of the scene between Moore andDetectives Cut and McNaught, but denied know Ing that Mahon had given any money to Moore. When asked by MT. Hill if she Knew of any scheme of Moore's to extort money from Mahon, or whether she had entered into any conspiracy for | ne purpose, she answered emphaticallv in the negative.
 fense rested. Recorder Golf announced that the case would be continued to- morrow, when MT. Mcintyre will cross examine Payne Moore.