The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-28
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore.


j tempted to work n New York
hotel proprietor by catching him calling
on Mrs. Moore. was sentenced yesterday
to nineteen years In state prison, and
may his sentence never grow less. The
case has been a picnic for the New York
newspapers. particularly those OF yell
low ~proclivities; a large. lively. joyous
picnic. at which the reporters and art
lists danced every number on the pro-
gramme. participated in all the sports
and festivities of the occasion and cried
for more.
II one half the stories and pictures are
to be believed. Mrs. Fayne Moore could
give Helen of Troy cards, spades and
diamond earrings. She has been de-
scribed as rather the prettiest woman
that ever lay siege to a hot bird and a
cold bot. Pretty Fayne i'm her youth
and purity was the pet and idol Of So
ciety. Men came. saw and fell at her
feet. In an evil day Fayne. too. fell and
fell hard. In the eyes Of the New York
reporters the fall of Babylon Is hardly
comparable 10 the fall of the urpass-
ingly beautiful Fayne. She married
Moore. a sharp and fascinating rascal.
a good dresser and a good republican.
Besides working the badger game,
Moore worked Mark Hanna for a Unit
ed States consulship at some far-off,
obscure African town with a minimum
OF civilization and a maximum OF naked
savages. The title of consul was worth
more to Moore than the thing itself:
in fact. he left the thing itself to take
care of itself and went skylarking and
rubbernecking to johannesburg. Once
he put up a badger game on Barney
Barnato, but Mrs. Moore was more
timid in those days. She refused to go
to bat and her husband failed to score.
Later, the story runs. they endeav-
ored to pull of a game with Kid Mccoy
in London. Mccoy had punched several
thousand dollars out of his pugilist
business in New York a few weeks be-
fore and had gone to London as a free
hand painter and decorator in red. All
the preliminaries to the game were ar
ranged with great care and nicety. but
at the critical moment when Moore drew,
a revolver and requested Mccoy for his
part to draw a check. Mccoy didn't do
a thing IA draw blood from Moore's
nose. Mccoy got the revolver away,
beat Moore's head into a fine article of
Jelly and left the room without kissing
anybody good bye. Mccoy is not a pub
lie character that compels the worlds
unalloyed admiration. But by beating a
man at his own badger game-beating
him into a jelly at that-McCoy is en-
tltled to at least one round OF generous
n sincere applause from the grand
stand.
Nineteen years Is a good long time and
the punishment fits the crime. 1t has
been a remarkable case i'm every way.
and perhaps chiefly remarkable in this,
tina: among hundreds and thousands of
precisely similar crimes IL is one that
has gained publicity. The badger ex-
perts are usually very careful in their
selection of victims, they aim to catch
men who under any circumstances will
not dare TO carry the story TO the po-
lice. As TO Mrs. Moore she deserves
nineteen years Imprisonment, too. but
1t is very doubtful II she gets nineteen
weeks. The assistant district attorney
of New York declares Il is impossible
TO pick twelve jurors all of whom are
proof against a pretty woman in tears.