The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-24
MINISTER'S NOT SAFE
From Women Like Fayne Moore De-
clares the District Attorney.

New York, Dec. 24-William E.
A. Moore, convicted of working the
badger" game on Martin Mahon at the
Hotel Grenoble, was to have been SEN
fenced today, but the trial of his alleg
ed wife, Fayne Strahan Moore, accused
of completely in the crime, being still
in progress, Recorder Golf announced
when court convened that the passage
of sentence would be deferred.
The cross-examinatiOn of Fayne
Moore was continued. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Mcintyre sought to elicit
admissions that Mrs. Moore came from
Atlanta, with a man named Ryan, said
to be q gambler; that she introduced
Ryan to Moore and that she arranged
a game of billiards between the two
men, in which Ryan lost $1,000 to Moore,
but to all the questions put by Mr. Nc
Intyre answers were given in the mega
tive.
Mrs Moore refused to give the name
of the man with whom she went to
Europe, She denied that she had ever
Travelled from Europe to the United
States with a confectiOner from Mem
phis, Tenn.
Mrs Moore also denied various ale
cations of immortality implied by ques-
lions of the crOss-examiner. An entry
from her diary gave evidence of her
intimacy with Ellis the Cuban, who has
been frequently referred to during the
trial.
Mrs. Moore said she knew there was
a woman who travelled with Moore and
who claimed to be his wife. Mrs. Moore
stated that this woman had told her
that she was not MoOre's wife. She
thought Moore had left this woman in
South Africa. Mrs. Moore Indignantly
denied that she and Moore "ba dgered"
Jules AleXandrOVitch out of $4,000 francs
in Paris She also denied that MOOre'S
papers of appointment to the consulate
at Durham were cancelled as the result
of any complaints made regarding their
proceedings in Paris. She said Moore
had interests in the great lakes as well
as mining interests in South Africa and
that she owned a two-stOry building in
Oregon. Moore had a desk in his uncle'S
office in Cleveland.
Mrs. Moore repeated her story of the
meeting with Mahon on November 4.
She again related the details of her con-
duct with MahOn previous to MOOre's
sudden entry. She was sure that Moore
did not rob MahOn. She aVOws that
Moore did not strike Mahon with the
revolver, but with his fist. After
lengthy crOss-examinatiOn Mrs. Moore
was excused and the defense rested its
case. A motion to acquit was denied.
Mr.. Hill then began summing up the
case for the defense. He told of his
professional service in Georgia and said
he had at one time resolved never again
to take part in criminal proceedings.
I'm this CASE he said, my sympathy
was so profoundly and deeply aroused
that I volunteered to come here at the
request of her widowed mother to help
defend this girl. Every fibre of my
nature was fired with Indignation at the
treatment received by this young de-
fendant. The great press of this city
has raced headlOng over the wounded
and bleeding body of this girl. The de-
tective force of this city has been busy
with her life, and the great powers of
the district attorneys Office have been
brought into play against this woman.
Scandal and defamation have been al
lowed to run riot over her, and 1 con-
fess that I was appalled, and thought
that the ancient Saxon blood would
have CONCEALED in the veins of the as
sistant district attorney before he would
make all the sweeping charges and by
innuendo which he has made against
one of his own race"
After reviewing the testimony Mr..
Hill referred emOtiOnally to the prison.
err whom he termed "a weeping child,''
and made an eloquent plea to the jury
to give her the benefit of the doubt and
not send her away a convict to repine
in a prison cell.
After Mr.. Hill concluded Assistant
District Attorney Mcintyre addressed
the jury for the prosecution.
Il distinguish this woman" said Mr..
Mcintyre, scathfngly, from ideal wO-
manhood. She does not do justice to
her sex, for she threw aside the veil of
virtue and honor and is not above the
commission of crime
He told the jury that it was their
duty to render a verdict in accordance
with the evidence but that they might
temper their verdict with a recon-
nendation for mercy.
"a minister of God" shouted Mr. Nc
Intyre, pointing to Fayne Moore whose
face was suffused with tears, could be
lured and inveigled by a designing wo-
man."
Mr.. Mcintyre spoke for fully three
hours, and at the conclusion of his adj
dress the recorder said he would not
charge the jury until later.