New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-02
THE Trial or THE MOORES.

M'INTYRE OPENS THE CASE AND THE COM
PLAINANT TEsTIFIEs
The trial Of William \. T. Moore. Consular Agent
al Durham South Africa. for robbery in the first
degree. was resumed yesterday morning In Part
" OF General Sessions. before Recorder GoN. In
the courtroom the defendant and his wife
and Martin Mahon. the proprietor Of the New
Amsterdam Hotel. who IS the complainant. A 1t
tie later in the day Senator-elect Joseph Simon. OF
Oregon the law partner Of Judge Strahan. who is
said to be the father Of the co-defendant. Mrs.
Moore, entered with f. NJ. Friend and took seat
inside the Enclosure reserved for counsel for the
prosecution II was said that Disrict-Attorney
Gardiner would make the summing UP address,
and If he does II will be the first summng-up ad-
dress he has made since he entered upon his office
The greater part Of the day was taken up with
the testimony Of the complainant. Before Martin
Mahon called to the witness stand Assistant
District-Attorney Mcintyre briefly stated what the
prosecution would endeavor to prove THE State
will establish in this case" he said that the de-
PENDANT committed the crime alleged by means
Of an instrument Of death. 1t will also show that
on November 4 after nightfan, at the Hotel
Grcnoble in this CITY, the defendant took from the
person of the complainant promissory note for
s. cy. payable November o. and in addition to that
the sum OF about $40 In money"
Mr. Mcintyre then referred 10 the first meeting
between Mrs. Moore and Mahon. 1t at a din
ner party given at the New Amsterdam Hotel three
years ago. Continuing the Assistant District-At-
toIney said that Mrs. Moore had been most in
innate terms with several men since that party.
and told how and for what purpose She had OBJ
tained the loan Of Il 500 diamond horseshoe pin
from Mahon in March last 1t subsequently,
learned that Mahons visit to the Crenoble 20
Mrs Moore, the night on which he alleges he
was robbed and assaulted by the defendant, was
for the purpose OF getting the pin. he swore
that Mrs Moore had promised return II If he
called Mahon swore that he had met Mrs. Moore
frequently since the dinner party at his hotel three
years ago and that his relations with her had
always been perfectly proper. on the night Of
November l. he said. he went TO the Hotel Metro
ladies' parlor.
The same evening he called upon her at her apart
ments IN the Grenoble Continuing. Mahon said
that he played cards with the woman. and that at
the end OF the game Moore broke into the room.
MahOn then went to tell how Moore had
struck him the head with n revolver. how the
defendant had ordered him 10 give him pronis-
sorry note for so 90 and then a note for half that
with the pistol in his right hand and swear
Moore" continued Mahon turned my pockets in
side out. took all the money had. and went over
to desk which his wife writing
fcssiOn and counted the money. lie then got ii
basin Of hot water and helped his wife battle my
injured forehead. gave a tie and collar in
place OF the tie and collar had worn. which was
bloods tanned. ana babe me go"
Mahon further testified that when he reached the
street Moore touched him on the shoulder. and
they went to a saloon where they had some drinks
Mahon then told about his visit 10 the hotel on
the following day, when he met Moore
An adjournment was taken until 1890 this morn
| ing.