The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-17
''PET's9 HUSBAND A BIGAMrsTs
Moore, of the BADGER Game, Said to
Have Another Wife.
From the New York Journal.

nave announcer WIFE.
From the New York Journal.
Fayne Strahan Moore is not the only
claimant to the name of the man with
whom she is locked up in the Tombs.
charged with working a colossal badger
game on Martin Mahon, proprietor of the
New Amsterdam Hotel She has a rival
"a woman who asserts that she was viii
liam A. E. Moore's wife before he ever
saw the beautiful daughter of the late
Chief Justice Strahan Of Oregon.
This woman has grievances against
Moore other than his faithlessness, and she
tells an interesting story of her expert
ences with him. But she declares that in
money matters, at least, she never knew
him to be guilty of any irregularity; and so
far from being card sharper, he LOST
money nightly to the gamblers at the dia-
mond fields
For the present nothing need be revealed
about Mrs. Moore No. l except that she
is living quietly with her mother in a town
not far from New York.
Here is the story of the first woman:
Yes. Billy Moore is my husband We
were children together in Ohio. Although
1 have no love for him, nothing ever sur
prised me 50 much as the news of his
arrest.
1T was in Cleveland that we knew each
other firsti when we were school children.
He comes of a very rich family there.
His father, Capt. Smith Moore, owned
line of steamboats, running between Cleve-
land and Marquette, Mich
BILLY and his two sisters had a big
fortune divided among them when the old
CAPTAIN died. about eight years ago. Then,
hi ~ died no another
handsome legacy. With his pockets full
of money he started out to see the world,
and 1 saw no more of him until about
four years ago
THAT was when 1 came to New York
on a visit. 1 had been here about two
months when a personal appeared in one
of the papers reading like this:
"'Nan-If you care to hear something
to your advantage communicate with w.
A. e. NJ
"Then there was the address of pri-
vate letter box 1 guessed it was Billy.
So l wrote, giving him my New York
address. Sure enough, he called, and we
talked over our school days in Cleveland.
He kept on calling after that, and six
months later we We're married.
He had plenty of money to spend all
this time In fact looked upon him as.
a very rich man, which he certainly
ought TO nave DttDs 4NNdAi9 llAGS years
ago he talked about taking me to South
Africa. where he wished to invest some
of his mo ey in diamond mines. L jump
ed at the chance of travelling, and we
started from New York in the summer
of 1886.
THAT was before he received his APP
pointment as consular agent at Durham,
but not before he expected to receive II.
He told me that Cleveland man named
Perkins was using his influence with
Mark Hanna to get him the job.
''Billy treated me very nicely until we
reached johannesburg, and then he be
gan to show his true character. He drank
heavily and often beat me till / was black
and blue. But he was still liberal with
money There was Nothing l asked for ]
couldn't have.
"Oh. we cut a dash in johannesburg, /
can tell you'll We met all the best people.
including the great Barney Barnato. And
all This time never heard word breatned
against my husbands behavior in money
matters. If he attempted to swindle any
bodv he never told me about it. AS for
card-sharplng as near as I could judge, il
was all the other way
"Bil,v often gave card parties. and used
10 play poker az our hotel, but the way he
drew checks to pay his losses 2 should say
that that amusement was the reverse OF
profitable. / must say TINS III honesty,
though I dislike him intensely, and would
like to see him punished for his cruelty
to me.
"In fact. # It hadn't been for me be-
Iieve he'd have last all he had in their
schemes down there. All sorts and coudi-
CONS of men were calling on him night
ana dfv trying TO persuade him to invest.
bui he held off on my advice, and when
persuaded him 10 lake me back 70 England
he had bought a few thousand dollars
worth Of diamonds, but hadn't speculated.
1.-TWO weeks after we got 10 London he