Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-12-24
A CELEBRATED CASE
as
Trial Of Badger" Moore's Wife
Nearing an End.
DEFENSE RESTS IT'S CASE
Sentence of Court Upon the Convicted
Man Defer Esd, Pending the Proceed
ings Against His Alleged
Accomplish.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Willam A i.
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 wife.
Fayne Strahan Moore, accused of COM
r!acity in the crime, being still in prog
ress, Recorder Golf announced when
court convened that the passage Of SEN
set later in the day.
Ihe cross-exa mination of Fayne
Moore was continued. The assistant
district attorney, Mr.. Mcintyre, sought
e elicit the admission that Moore came
from Atlanta with a man named RYAN
said to be a gambler.
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
Ibis, Tenn. ~,
Mrs. Moore also denied various allie
cations OF immortality implied by ques-
lions of the cross-examiner. An entry
from her diary gave evidence of her in
tlmacy with Ellis, the Cuban. who has
aeen frequently referred to during the
trial.
MRS. MOORE DENIES.
MRS. Moore said she knew there was
g. woman travelled with Moore and who
claimed to be his wife. Mrs Moore
stated that this woman had told her
mat she was not Moores wife. She
thought Moore had left this woman in
South Africa. Mrs. Moore Indignantly
denied that she and Moore ..badeered',
Jules Aiexandrovitch out of Ii, 1000 francs
IN Paris. She also denied that Moore's
Papers or appointment to the consulate
at Duroan were cancelled as the result
or any complaints made regarding their
proceedings in Paris. She said Moore
nad interests in the Great Lakes, as
well as mining interests in South Africa.
ana that she owned a two-story build
ing IN Oregon. Moore had desk in
DDEEnSE RESTS.
assfaEaa
sterda the me ting will Na non 81
"a sSN c per She again described the
"details Of her conduct with Mahon pre-
SSVious to MOOreS sudden entry, She wa a
sure that Moore did not rob Mahon.
She averred that Moore did not strike
Mahon with the revolver, but with his
list. After a lengthy cross-examination
mrs Moore was excused and the de-
Tense rested it's case A motion to
acqut was denied
Late in the afternoon Mr.. Hill began
summing up the case for the defense.
He told of his professional services in
Georgia and said that he had at one
time resolved never again to take part
III criminal proceedings.
I'm this CASE he said, my sympathy
VAS so profoundly and deeply aroused
that l volunteered to come here at the
request of her widowed mother to help
defend the girl.
MIR. HILL EMPLOYS PATHOS.
Every fibre of my nature was fired
With Indignation at the treatment re-
ccived by this young defendant The
great press of this city has raced head
long over the wounded and bleeding
body Of this girl. The detective force
OF this city have 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 allowed to
run riot over her and confess that I
was appalled, and thought that the
ancient Saxon blood would have con
eealed in the veins of the assistant dis
tsict attorney before he would make all
the sweeping charges by innuendo
which he has made against one of his
own race" H.
After reviewing the testimony, MIR.
liill referred enotionalliy to the prison
or whom he termed "a weeping child
and made an eloquent plea to the jury
to give her the benefit of the doubt and
net send her away a convict to repine
i'll prison cell.