The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-15
THIRTEENTH WIFE.
Proved the waterloo of This Ugly
Kentucky Man.

ETOU1 Nne New 1Olk WOrlu.
Compton, Ky, Feb. s.--The unlucky
thirteen in combination with the mar
rying habit has brought the promising
career of Howard Moore to a full stop.
At twenty eight, the unblushing hus-
band of thirteen wives, none of whom
has seen 1T to depart this life since
the matrimonial knot was tied, he is
now langulshing in jail with the prob
ability OF a twentyyears' sojourn in
the penitentiary as a mild antitode for
his fatal weakness.
1t was on Dec. 10 last that Moore
met his Waterloo. She was a plumb
and pleasing brunette, twenty-one
years of age and named Fannie Rob-
inson. He fell in love at sight and the
marriage was immediate. After a mar
rled life of fifteen days Moore took UNI
bragg at the fact that his wife desired
to visit her father, who was i'll. Tle
promptly deserted her. Mrs Moore re"
fused to look at things in the same
light. She swore out warrant for
his arrest. and his incarceration devel-
oped a crop of wives and incidental
children that would have set up in
business the most ambitious follower
of Brigham Young.
Man with the Hard Face.
complshed so much in so brief a. space
of existence is the most singularly
hardfeatured mountaineer to be found
for miles around. Broad nosed and
wide mouthed, he has a complexion like
badly tanned leather, a shock of black
hair and pair of slow black eyes. A
pair of bushy. irregular eyebrows lend
a somewhat sinister look to his face
and heavy, slouching gait completes
the unattractive whole.
Moore cherishes no decisions anent
his beauty he explains the whole mat
ter by the power of the eye.
TITS the way you look at a gals
the simple theory put forward by this
heart breaker. whose record is thus far
unexampled. Here is his statement:
Il believe in men marrying as many
times as they want to. Pap said that
the Bible said to multiply and re-
plenish the yeth. 1t Is as easy to win
a woman's heart as fallin' off log. I
don't believe in long courtships. I be-
lieve that when a Teller gifts struck on
gal he ort to ask her to marry him
right then, and never put it off-nary
day.
ut all depends on how you look at
a gal; the eyes tell the tale. Every gal
jedges a man by his eyes, and | tedge
gal by her eyes. The eyes talk to
each other in their own way.
Looks Don't Count.
ut does not matter how ugly a 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 viii marry him
or die. Every gal l ever axed to mar
ry me said yes. But If hadn't axed
'em all at the very moment out eyes
| looked into each other several NV 'em
would have said no. ] alluz got tared
of em and aIluz found a good excuse
to git away from 'em.
II loved all NV 'em when / married
EN-, but. az / sed a while ago, l soon
got tared NV 'ein; but then l would
alluz soon want me anuther wife.
II don't like single life all the time,
nur married life all the time. ] alluz
like to try both. / intend TO marry
| agin when / git out NV this scrape,
and, il / can git to look into all their
eyes at my trial, they will tell the
| judge to turn me loose.
Say. mister gimme chaw NV
| homespun terbacler. What we written
thar? l don't want my name in the
paper, but If We see emmy gal that wants
ter marry, send her ter me-"
Began Marrying nt Fifteen.
1t was at the tender age of Is that
/
peared In Moore's system. Rachel
| Dunn, aged Ia. a playmate of his from
| babyhood, was his earliest victim in
wives. The wedding had the consent
| of the parents and lasted two weeks.
| A cold breakfast one morning chilled
/ the afdor OF the youthful husband
| and he decamped. A child, the result
of this union, is one of to-day's ex-
hibits. That was in 1888. Victoria
Meade II. Virginia Peters, Is; Evaline
Adams 10, and Alice Burnet, IA, all
| succumbed to the eye within two years.
| The second he met at his mothers
funeral. But Moore got "tared" In a
week or two, and, save for the child,
which was the human document In
each case, the marriage was as IL it
had never been.
In May 1891. he welded Susan Stout
ton and added one more child to his
miscellaneous family. Six months la
ter, Nancy Pucket, a beauty OF IS, be-
came his bride. JOY lasted for nine
days and Moore fled. AS usual, Off
spring attested the fact, twins being
now included in his increasing respon-
| sibilities.
He married Priscilla Williams in 1892
to save her from picking blackberries
for a living. In 1898 he was the hus-
| band Of Charlotte Evans, and just at
this time his frequent absences In Jail
/ for the gentle act OF "moonshing" made
necessary lapses in his marriage rec
ord. Minerva Brashears, who became
his wife in 1894, was rs and muscular
and chastised him for getting drunk
| She and Phoebe Gaybart the next i'm
cumbent, each contributed a child 10
| the Moore clan.
A widow. Mrs. Jane Tolson. was his
next choice She was IS, and fascinat-
ing enough to hold him for five weeks,
| but when she insisted that she loved
him better than her first husband the
mountalneer distrusted her and left
child was born to the deserted bride.
For lengthy interval the much-mar-
ried Moore remained in single-blessed-
ness. Then he gazed into Fannie Rob
| inson'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 thirteen times arrested for
"moonshining,' touched the crisis of
| his fate.
And now thirteen editions OF the
woman scorned" are ready to ask the
jury what they are going to do about
| II.
Fine whislSeys and Brandies.