The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-13
HIS ALIBI is WEAKENED
MOORE NOT IN WEISS SALOON TILL
AFTER 3 O'CLOCK.
Police Working on CIew as to a
Quarrel with His Wife in
the Morning.


with the murder of his wife. 1t is admitted
that Saloon Keeper William Weiss was one
of Mocre's strongest supports in his state
ment of his whereabouts. To Journal re-
porter the day after the tragedy occurred,
Mr.. Weiss stated in positive terms that
Moore was in his place not later than
oclock on Friday the day of the murder,
and this statement he maintained through
out until yesterday, when he admitted 20
the police that some doubt was in his mind
as to whether the day WAS Thur sday or Fri
day. His barkeeper, Taylor Bannon. how
ever, knocked the props from under Moore's
story by making the statement to the police
that Moore was in the place on Friday ana
that the hour was not earlier than 8
o o'clock His statement is justified in his
mind by the fact that free lunch is never
set out in the place until p. m, and when
Moore came in he bought a glass of beer
and at once went back to the lunch stand
and partook of some of the edibles.
IDENTIFIED BY MOTORMAN.
In support of the statement of Herman \.
Tuttle, who saw Moore board an Illinois
street car about o'clock Saturday at
Twenty-frst street on the day of the muir
der, Superintendent Quigley yesterday Sc
cured the evidence of Conductor Elias Bass
and Motorman George Hickman, of the
Ilinois-street car which carried both Moore
and Mr.. Tutttle
Both men were taken to the jail, where
Moore was lined up on the second floor COR
ridor with about twenty other prisoners.
Some of them did not have on their hats
or coats and Deputy Chapman compelled
them to put them on. Moore was placed in
about the middle of the line and both street.
car men were asked to pick out the man
who boarded their car at Twenty-first street
last Friday They walked up and down the
line of prisoners and finally Hickman whis
pered something to Superintendent Quigley,
who replied.
well, go and lay your hand on him if
you think you know him"
Hickman, without any hesitation, walked
straight UP to Moore, who stared straight
ahead CT him, and pointing to him, said:
That's the man." Moore was at once led
back to his cell.
The conductor could not positively identi-
fly Moore as his passenger.
Both witnesses were then taken for pr1-
vate consultation into room in the jail
office with Prosecutors Wiltsie and lies and
Superintendent Quigey, and on their exit
they refused to say asword further on the
Moore matter. 4gk a.
The reason given by Motorman Hickman
for his positive identified ton of Moore was
the fact that at Twenty-first street he
noticed a man who evidently wanted to
board the car, but who stood on the wrong
side of the track and at the further cross
ing so that he had to stop the car at the
wrong crossing to take. him on" So far
as he could remember, this was the same
trip on which Mr.. futile rode with them.
but he would not like, he said, to speak
positively on this pointa
QUARREL IN THE MORNING..
Superintendent Qpigley states that he has
still further information concerning Moore's
doings from noon until evening which will
prove to the public that he is the slayer
of his wife. The police are working on clews
to prove that Moore and his wife quarrled
the morning of the tragedy.
The thing to be fixed to a certainty now
is the all-important feature that Moore was
in the house frarps dinner time, when all
the family was opreseRt. until o'clock,
when he boarded the IlIinois-street car ON
which rode Herman e. Iuttie. The super
intendent Is confident that he can prove
this, but says that the case will not be one
in which any direct testimony of eyewit-
figure, but In his opinion the net of circum-
stantial evidence can be wrapped so firmly
around Moore that his conviction of murder
will convince the most fastidlous that sim
pie justice has been done.
The police have proved an incontestable
alibi for Derk De Ruter Superintendent
Quigley states that, acting on the suspicious
elements in De Rufter'S relations with the
Moore family as brought to his notice by
long as he had Moore safely in custody, to
rigidly investigate every other avenue at
which suspicion might point, Believing that
justice would be bast served by rigidly ex-
aiming into De RuitPr's alibi the super
intendent detailed Detective Kinney to get
De Ruiter's written statement of his where
abouts from noon on Friday until evening
and prove up each statement beyond any
question by Witnesses Accordingly the
statement was written out Monday by De
Ruiter, and the detective finished proving 1t
up last evening.
DE RUITERs ALIBI.
The statement is as follows: II left home
on West Twenty-seventh street. about 1910
and rode on my wheel straight to our Of
flee, at Washington and Delaware streets,
where met my partner Trusler, who was
coming down the stairs on his way TO lunch
at a neighboring restaurant About ITO
o'clock went UP to- the office and waited
until Trusler came back from lunch. We
talked in the Office until 230 when we went
out together going down Washington street
to Pennsylvania. and thence to the When
store. where we stopped to read the war
bulletins. While there, Mr.. Post my father
in-law. passed and also stopped to look at
the window. I pointed him out to Truser
who had not until tthen met him. Leaving
Trusler at 2:25 went at once to the real
estate office of George Wolf. in the Lemcke
building, where l was told by a man In the
office that Wolf was not in, but could be
found in the grand jury room Going there
janjtor and at the door | met Fremont Al
ford whom | asked wi ere Wolf could be
found. Afford called Wolf out OF the room
and / talked with him fifteen or twenty
minutes. [ then went TO the Office for my
wheel and went home by my regular route
through the Circle TO Indiana and Senate
avenues. While on the latter street | met
Detectives Asche and Dugan and we spoke
to each other"
The rest of his story, though comprehen-
sive as to details and circumstances, is re-
garded as unimportant. as the murder must
have been committed shortly after noon. in
fact, not more than two hours later Be
sides the confederation of Detectives Dugan
and Asche, who met him on his way home,
the story is assented to emphatlcally by
he saw De Ruiter on Twenty-seventh
street, at his home. at IL O'Clock Friday
and again at D. M. Mr. Trusler aftirms
the correctness of the meeting with him and
the time because he looked up at the court
house clock as he came down stairs.
identified De Ruiter, and remembered him
coming to VOLTS office although he did
not know at the time who he was, His
reference to the meeting with Wolf at the
grand jury room is also acknowledged by
that gentleman p G.. Trusler testifies to
the truthfulness of the statement of the
time and circumstance of his meeting with
him
call made by the detectives on Henry
Pest, the murdered womans father,
brought out the fact that he did stand in
front of the When during the afternoon,
but cannot establish in his mind anywhere
near the exact time. On coming down town
from the house at 1890 he walked leisurely
through Monument place and stopped IN
front of the bulletin displays in two places
and sauntered around other places so that
the time of his appearance at any gwen
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