The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-23
STRAHAN MOORE
States Evidence Completed in
the Badger Game Case.
SHE DENIES EXTORTION
Went to the Hotel With Mahon, but
Was Not q Party to the
scheme-Ths Marriage
Proved.

New York. Dec. 23.-The taking of ev-
idence in the case of Frayne Strahan
Moore, accused of robbery in the first
degree, was resumed to-day before Re-
corder Con. Three witnesses gave tes-
timony confirming that of Martin Ma
hon. the alleged victim OF the badger
game. Then Mrs. Fannie f. johnson,
who ives in West Fifty-seventh street,
where IL Ia alleged Mahon took Mrs.
Moore, sal she knew Mahon and also
the defendant. but did not know Will
liam Z. Moore. She testified that she
had asked Fayne Moore in the tombs
why she did not turn states evidence.
Mrs. Johnson broke down at this point
and shed tears. In reply to a question
she said Fayne Moore would not turn
states evidence. because she was afraid
Moore wou kill her. The rest of her
testimony was given up to answering
questions more or less irrelevant to the
case, and then a waiter from the Metro
pole, who served dinner to Mr.. Mahon
and the alleged Mrs. Moore, was put
on the stand. This ended the ease for
the prosecution and Mr.. Levy, the at
torney for the defendant, 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 first witness
for the defense. She denied having
heard Mrs. johnson advise Mrs. Moore
to turn states evidence. At this point
the court adjourned. Later in the even
ing the court was again called to order
and the time was devoted to the con-
tinued testimony Of Mrs. Fitzgerald.
After her came Rev. Ogden Homas,
rector of st. Matthews Protestant Epis-
copal church. in West Eighty-fourth
street. who testified on April 4. 1897, he
performed a marriage ceremony be-
tween william A. E.. Moore and Fayne
Strahan He said the was
the woman. Moore was brought into
court and Mr.. Homas identified him as
the man.
Fayne Moore was then called to the
stand n examined by Mr.. Hill. She
said hat she was born on Feb. %. 1877.
Her father was judge Of the supreme
court of oregon when he died. in July,
1887. She then removed to Atlanta,
Ga. and came to New York in the
spring of 1896. She came here, she said,
with the intention of completing her
musical studies. She went to Europe,
returned 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 Ma
hon had, unlimited. called upon her
when she was living at Gramercy park.
Mahon, she said. told her he was a
married man. but was not living with
his wife. He frequently took her ear
riage riding and to the theater. She
then went to Atlanta, and on returning
took a room at Mrs. Johnson's house
at Mr.. Mahon' suggestion. She said
the last time she had seen Mahon pre-
vious to her marriage to Moore was
in January. 1897. She told of her trips
with Moore in this country and abroad.
She then said that on the morning OF
Nov. 4 she received a telephone mes
sage from Mahon asking her to take
supper at the Metropole. The rest of
her testimony recounted the supper in
the rooms of the Grenoble. to which no
tel the had later gone, and the one in
which Moore appeared n demanded
money from Mahon. She also spoke OF
the scene between Moore and Detec-
tives Cuff and Mcknight, but denied
knowing that Mahon had given any
money to Moore. When asked by Mr..
Hill IL she knew of any scheme OF
Moore's TO extort money from Mahon,
or whether she had entered into any
conspiracy for the purpose, h an
swered emphatically in the negative.
Mr.. Hill then announced that the de-
Tense rested. Recorder Gon
that the case would be continued to-
morrow, when Mr.. Mcintyre viii cross
axamfue Fla yne Moore.