The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
His Secret Deal With
 Wong Sam.
TOLD OF CONTEMPLATED RAID
MANY INSTANCES OF TREASURY
 AGENTS DUPLICITY.
Exposure of His Escapades Drives Him Into a Cider Debauch. Sequel to a Famous
 Luncheon.

Major Horace A. Moore, Special Agent of the Treasury, has taken to dissipation since The Calls exposure of his deteStable conduct toward a defenseleSs woman. Major Moore has long made it his boast that he was strictly temperate in his habits, that no intoXicants ever passed his lips, and his abhorrence of those who did tipple was expressed in the most violent terms.
 But last Monday, after his hidden life had been given to the world, the major grew desperate, and, summoning a mes senger, he dispatched him for two gallons of the juice of the apple. The messenger soon returned with a huge demijohn, and the major proceeded to inaugurate wild, to-hades- -with-my- enemies cider de- bauch that must astonish those who have looked upon the major as a model man.
 But while Moore has been reveling in his cider jag others have been busy dig ging into his record, with the result that fresh charges have been forwarded to the Treasury Department, one of which may cost him much more than his position. This charge, which is fully substantiated, accuses the Treasury Agent of having tipped off, to Wong Sam, a Chinese broker at SIS Washington street, the time set for the famous Omaha raid" Briefly, the Omaha raid was a roundup of the Chinese men ana women WHO were idIiueu on special certificates for the purpose Of participating in the Omaha Fair. They were obliged to return to China within three months after the close of the expo sition, but many of them escaped and made their way to San Francisco.
 The raid was planned by Moore ana Collector of Customs Jackson, those two being the only ones to know or 1t. Some time before the raid The Call gave list of the women thus unlawfully remaining In, houses where they were held as chattelS and the prices paid for them by their owners. The day of the publication of this list a Cali reporter called on Major Moore, who at once demanded to know the source Of The Calls information The reporter de- clined to tell. and the major continued:
 "I know well enough you got 1t from Wong Sam. Hes trying to blackmail those people"
 That statement was a practical admis- Sion that Moore and the Chlnaman were hdoing business" with one another. Wong Sam may have endeavored to blackmail those people, but if so the question natur- ally arises how Major Moore knew he had any Knowledge of them or what his object was, unless the major was in part nership with Sam.
 After the raid Moore, in company with Miss. Cameron of the Presbyterian Mis- sion, went to District Attorney Foote's office. Moore told Foote that two of the captured women claimed to have been born in San Francisco and had never been put of the State. Moore admitted that he had no evidence against them. Foote re- piled that under the circumstances all he could do would be to enter a nolle pros In their cases, to which Moore answered that anything Foote did would be satis,- factory to them. This was done and Moore then told the reporters that Foote had turned two of the women loose and insinuated that there was something crooked in the affair. When A. H. Yordi, counsel for the women, saw that he took the District Attorney to task for dismiss Ing the cases without consulting him. Foote was wroth over the imputation and told the reporters all about Moore's du- plicity.
 Dewitt c. Jackson, now a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y., was special deputy under Moore. Somebody preferred charges of dereliction of duty against Jackson. Moore wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury stating that there was no truth whatever in the charges. He showed the letter to Jackson and then sent it to Washington. A day or two later Moore wrote another letter stating that he was convinced the charges were true and se- cretly mailed it to the Secretary. Both letters were on file in the department nnd will be used at Moores trial as fur ther proof of his duplicity.
 There is also on file in the Treasury De- partment a communication from B. E. Meredith, chief of the Chinese Bureau charging that he accused Major Moore with having secretly given certain infor- I1idd nation 1 to the the press and that that Moore re- corner and he was forced to tell them what he knew.
 One of the majors love affairs that promises to be fully ventilated with the others is that in which the putative wife of Foss, the smuggler, was the recipient of his attentions for a long time after Floss was sent to San Quentin. It is al- legged that Moore, who was active in the prosecution of the Foss-Ciprico gang. was possessed of considerable evidence against the woman, but instead of having her placed on trial, he lavished his at- tentions upon her to such an extent that the couple became the subject of com mon gossip around the Federal building. 1t is certain that there was much truth In the rumors that the majors love affair was only prevented from being given to the world by Major Moore purchasine the exclusive privilege of reading the story.
 There is a sequel to the famous lunch con in which Moore and Sam Ruddell indulged. Moore invited RuddeIl to lunch one day when Ruddell was deputy collector under W; D. English, and after enjoying juicy duck, with accessories. walked ont of the ractal1rapt Iao,-;r.~.