The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-12
A KENTUCKIAN
WHO 1fA1nIBD NOT wIsELY
 a BUT roo MANY.
He Boasts Thirteen Wives and is only e6 Years old-Degan at 16 Thirteenth Venture Brought
 Him to Jail.

E The unlucky IS in combination with the marrying habit has brought the profnts- ing career of Howard Moore to full stop. says a dispatch to The New York World from Compton, Ky.
 At B. the unblushing husband of ls wives. none of whom has seen fit to de- part this life since the matrimonial knot was tied, he is now languisbing in jail with the probability of . 20 years so- journ in the penitentiary as mild anti dote for his fatal weakness.
 It was on December B last that Moore met his Waterloo. She was . plump and pleasing brunette, n years of age, and named Fannie Robison. He fell in love at sight and the marriage was inn- mediate. After . married life of fifteen days Moore took umbrage at the fact that his wife desired to visit her father. who was i'll. He promptly deserted her. Mrs. Moore refused to. look at things in the same light. She sWore out war developed . crop of wives and incidental children that would have set up in busi- ness the most ambitious follower of Brig ham Young.
 The universal fascinator who has ac- complished 50 much in so brief . space 0 fexistence is the most singularly hard. featured mountaineer to be found for miles around.
 Moore cherishes no delusions anent his beauty: he explains the whole matter by the power of the eye.
 Its the way you look at a gaf'-is the simple theory put forward by this heart- ampled.
 'It does not matter how ugly . man may be. nor how ragged he may be. nor who he is; if he knows how to look the gal in the eyes he will win her heart. and she will marry him or die. Every gal I ever axed to marry me said yes loved all us 'em when I married 'em, but az sed a while ago, I soon got tared uv 'em; but then would allus soon want me anuther wife. don't like single life all the time nur married life all the time. alluz like to try both"
 It was at the tender age of IS that the matrimonial microbe first appeared in Moore's system. Rachel Dunn. aged l. a playmate of his from babyhood. was his earliest victim in wives. That was in 1888. Victoria Meade. 17; Virginia Peters. 1s; Evaline Adams. 1s: and Alice Burnet, l4, all succumbed to the eye within two years. In May. 1891. he we'd ded Susan Stoulton. Six months later Nancy Pucket, a beauty of IS. became his bride. Joy lasted for nine days and Moore lied. He married Priscilla VII. Hams in 1892. In 1893 he was the husband of Charlotte Evans. and just at this time his frequent absences in jail for the gentle act of "moonshining' made neces- sary lapses in his marriage record. Minerva Brashears became his wife in 1894. Phoebe Gaybart was the next in- cumbent.
 A widow, Mrs. Jane Tolson. was his next choice. Then he gazed into Fannie Robinson's dark eyes and was lost.
 Married on the thirteenth day of the month to his thirteenth wife. this father of thirteen children. who was himself one of family of thirteen and had been arrested thirteen times for ''moonshin- ing" touched the crisis of his fate.
 And now 13 editions of the woman scorned" are ready to ask the jury what they are going to do about 1t.