The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09
SAVANNAH, GA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9 1898

the detectives during the ride to Police
headquarters.
Mr.. Mahon called at police headquarters
yesterday afternoon and told Capt. Nc
Clusky his remarkable story. He said
that he had known Mrs. Moore for three
years He first met her at a dinner par
~ given at the New Amsterdam Hotel.
where she was introduced as Miss Frayne
Strahan of Portland, ore. Her father, he
learned, was chief justice of the Supreme
Court there Mrs. Moore had just return
ed from Europe, where she had been COM
pieting her musical education, and re-
manned in this city for several weeks,
staying with friends in Gramercy Park
She frequently took luncheon al The New
Amsterdam Hotel at that time, and MIR.
Mahon became well acquainted with her.
| Then she returned to her fathers home,
and he did not see her, except at rare in
tervals, until last Wednesday, when he
mel her in Broadway. He was wearing at
the time a handsome diamond horseshoe
scarfpin, which she greatly admired, and
when she requested that he loan 1t to her
to wear to a dinner party that evening he
willingly consented. She said that she
would meet him in the parlor Of the Hotel
Mctropole on Friday evening and dine with
him, when she would return it.
Mahon met Mrs, Moore on Friday even
the Hotel Grenobfe. She invited him to
her parlor and an hour was passed pleas
antly in playing cards and talking over
mutual friends. Then Mrs. Moore COM
planned of the intense heat and entered
her bedroom, which adjoined the private
parlor, returning in a few minutes array
ed in a light dressing gown. Card playing
was renewed and bottle of wine was or
derod, of which both partook
MIR. MahOn was suggesting that he should
better take his departure when the door
! was suddenly opened, and Moore whom
! he had never seen before, rushed in. In
his hand he grasped a huge Colts revolver
| and in three strides he was beside Mahon
| and had the revolver pressing against his
| head. Mahon was too astonished to speak,
| but Mrs. Moore lent dramatic effect to the
scene by throwing herself on her knees
and begging her husband to forgive her.
| Moore thereupon told his wife to write
out from his dictation a confession of
guilt and when she had done so he forced
Mahon, stil holding the revolver 10 his
head, to sign 1t. Mahon, who was almost
paralyzed with fear at the proximity Of
| the loaded revolver to his brains readily
complied, and then Moore demanded that
he sign an agreement to deliver to him
on presentation $4,000. Mahon said that
| he could not raise such a sum of money,
and the demands Of Moore were gradually
reduced until 5000 was accepted,
Mrs. Moore was again called upon to
draw up an agreement in which Mr.. Mahon
agreed to pay $500 TO Moore on Saturday
night and $500 on Monday night. Then
Moore asked him whether he had any mon
| ey in his possession, and when Mahon
replied that he had $167, he promptly took
i possession of that and also OF a diamond
scarfpin which was IN his cravat Then
Mr.. Mahon was permitted to depart, which
he fost no time an doing. He did not know
| at first what action to take In the matter,
| but finally decided to visit the detective
bureau, and lay the matter before Capt.
McCmsky.
Capt. McClusky determined at once that
| Mr.. Mahon was the victim of clever pair
| of blackmallers and detailed Detectives
Cuff and McNaught to go to the hotel and
Investigate the case. They went there last
night and knocked on the door of the suite
of apartments occupied by the couple Mr..
Moore was found sitting beside a table in
| the parlor. On the table lay the Colts re-
| volver which had figured in the exciting
| scenes of Friday night, and Moore grasped
| it before the detectives had time TO ex-
| plain their errand. He did not have time
to point 1t at Cuff, who sprang forward
to seize it, but using it as a club, he
| brought 1T down twice with terrible force
on the detectives head.
Cuff fell to the floor with two gashes
| in his head, but Mcknight sprang at the
| throat of the consul and prevented him
from doing any further mischief. Mrs
Moore, who had been in the bedroom, came
out upon hearing the noise made by the
| detectives and her husband and was told
that she was under arrest She entered no
protest but put on her wrap and hat and
accompanied the detectives 20 police head
quarters. She was richly dressed, is very
| pretty woman and was laden with dia-
monds and diamond jewelry. When con-
| fronted by Capt. McClusky at police head
| quarters Moore practically admitted that
a game had been played upon Mr. Mahon,
| but accused his wife of being the insti-
| gator of it.
He at first tried the highly moral tone
| with the captain, but McClusky soon as
| sured him that that course was unwise and
| then he unbosomed himself. He said that
| he had been appointed United States con-
sui TO Durham South Africa, by President
| Mckinley, but had not gone to his post,
because he was trying to have the APP
polntment changed to Buda Pesth. He said
that his home was in Cleveland, o.
He said that he was married in 1887 and
! that since then he had taken his bride
| abroad and had also visited her father in
| Oregon. He had Travelled recently in the
| West, he said, and while he was absent his
| wife had lived at the Waldorf Astoria
When he had returned they had moved
into the apartments they occupied at the
hotel Grenoble.
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HOW DISHES WE'RE NAMED.