The San Francisco call., 1899-10-29
THREATENED To
KILL HIS WIFE
Serious Charge Against
G. J. Moore.
CONSTANTLY IN TROUBLE
SHOT HIS BROTHER HARRY
FIVE YEARS AGO.
srec!al Dispatch to The Call.

PASADENA. Oct 2s.-G. ]. Moore. son
of the president of the Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Company, is now in the County
Jail awaiting trial before City Recorder
Klamroth on a charge Of threatening to
Kill his young wife. Since arrival here
Moore has been pretty constantly before
the public His first trouble occurred last
winter when he and his wife were resid-
ing on Elmira street He was working
this territory under the employ of his
father Next door lived another agent Of
this same company. The two agents
quarreled over the agency Of the territory.
For long time they would not speak to
each other. Then one night Moore set a
trap for chicken thieves, he said and
caught his neighbor's dog. The dog made
a great noise and awoke its owner, who
aroused the Marshal. The dog had to be
shot.
Moore was arrested and tried for dis
turbng the peace. The other agent was
arrested on Moore's complaint and finally
matters were adjusted on an arrange
ment as to costs. Later Moore and the
other agent lndulged in fist fight in the
Los Angeles office of the company. These
affairs caused a stir in the community,
and there grew UP what was known as
the Elmira street teud, the families there
taking sides with whichever party they
deemed in the right Mr.. and Mrs. Moore
finally removed to l31 Waverly drive Sew
eral days ago they separated, Mrs Moore
going to work for a doctor who lives on
MarengO avenue.
MooTe's drinking caused the trouble In
tine family. Thursday he went to Los
Angeles and came home drunk. lie sWofe
he would do up" somebody. He tried 10
borrow gun. and tried to hire one with
81 he had Failing to do so, he went TO
see his wife, and, though without a
weapon, succeeded in so frightening her
that she rushed downtown with neither
hat nor shoes on and begged the Marshal
n he n J.,
husband Marshal Lacey told Moore that
he could choose between going to Jail
and leaving. town. compromise was
n electric car for Los Angeles. The next
day he came to town and made more
threats TO kill He was going TO kill the
doctor kill his wife and kill the police
men. He was locked up and a charge was
filed against him. He begged not to be let
out of jail because, he said, he knew he
would kill the doctor.
George ]. Moore is the son of George
A. Moore, president of the Pacific Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company Of this
G 9qns IN M91e is ganfd h1 e9n5idegabe
brother Harry in front of the insurance
building at the corner of Montgomery
and Sacramento streets They had a
George in the face and the latter drew
revolver and shot him in the side just
above the hip. George. coolly thrust the
p.SNOl III liiS ppthtI anu Stilu lie Iidu StlOt
his brother because the latter had threat
ened to thrash his father. George was
charged with assault TO murder, but the
case never came to trial, as his brother
recovered and refused to prosecute.
George returned 10 his position In his
fathers office, and one day, in 1897, he
went into a shooting gallery and shot
himself in the stomach. He recovered,
and his father then tried to set him up
In business in the southern part Of the
State. He was made agent Of the com
pany in Los Angeles and was finally
transferred to Pasadena where the latest
trouble occurred. His friends in this city
say that he is quiet when sober. but when
in liquor he gets perfectly crazy He is
in the habit of going on periodical sprees,
and when in that condition becomes vfo-
wife died and he was divorced from his
second, but it is said that they had be-
come reconciled and had resumed marital
relations.