The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-10
Moore Fascinated Many Women
by tho PoWa Of His Eyes,
UGLY KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEER
Al Txenty.Eight Years Of Ago This Much.
Married Man Faces prOh.hIs ImpTIs0a-
nsnt for Twenty Years.

Compton. KY, Feb. l0.-The unlucky
10 in combination with the marrying habit
has brought the promising career OF
Howard Moore to a full stop.
At IS, the unblushing husband OF -
wives, none OF whom has seen mt 10 de-
part this life since the matrimonial Knot
was lied, ne Is now lansuisnlng In Jail
with the probability OF a 2J-years saJourn
in tile penitentary as mild antidote Tor
mis- fatal weakness.
1T Was on Dec. IL last that Moore met
his Waterloo. She was "A plump and
pleasing brunette, Il years OF age and
named Fannie Robinson. lie Tell an love
at sight and the marriage was immediate.
After a married lie OF IL days Moore took
umbrage at the fact that his wife desired
10 visit her father, who was ILL.,
He promptly deserted her. Mrs. Moore
refused 10 look at things in the same
light. She swore out warrant for mis-
arrest, and his Incarceration developed -
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.
The universal fascinator who has ac-
OF existence IS the most singuiarly hard
featured 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 q pair OF sloe black eyes. a pair OF
! bushy irregular eyebrows lend some
what sinister look TO his face, and
heavy, slouching gait completes the unat-
tractive whole.
oh nj dalnRipnl
beauty, he explains the whole matter by
the power OF the eye.
Its the way you look at a gar'-is
the simple theory put forward by this
heart breaker, whose record is thus far
unexampled. Here is his statement:
II believe in men marrying as many
times as they want TO. Pap said that
the Bible said 10 multiply and replenish
the yeth. 1t is as easy to win a woman's
heart as fallin of of log. j don't be-
lieve I'm long courtshps L believe that
! when feller gifts struck on a gal he ort
TO ask her to marry him right then. and
never put IL of-nary day.
1T all depends on how you look at n
| gal; the eyes tell the tale. Every gal
| iedges a man by his eyes, and / jedge a
| gal by her eyes. The eyes talk TO each
other in their own way.
LOOKS DON'T COUNT.
"It does not matter how ugly a man
may be, nor how ragged he may be, nor
who lie 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.
But If / hadn't axed EN- all at the very
moment our eyes looked into each other
several NV 'em would have said no. /
alluz got tared OF 'em I'm a little while
after I married 'em. and alluz found
good excuse to git away from EN-.
81 loved all NV EN- when | married EN-
but. az 1 sed a while ago, ] soon got
tared NV 'em but then, I would alluz
soon want me another wife.
II don't like single life all the time nun
married life AL the time. alluz like
20 try both. 7 intend 10 marry agin when
! git out ux this scrape. and. If can git
TO look into all their eyes at my trial,
they will tell the ledge to turn me loose.
Say. mister simmee a chaw Nv home
spun terbacker What We written thar?
] don't want my name in the paper. but
II ye see emmy gal that wants ter marry.
send her ter me-"
BEGAN MARRYING AT Il.
1t was at the tender age OF 10 that the
matrimonial microbe first appeared In
Moores system. Rachel Dunn, aged IL,
playmate OF his from babyhood. was
his earliest victim ia wives. The wedding
had the consent OF the parents and lasted
two weeks. A cold breakfast one morn
ing chilled the ardor OF the youthful hus-
ban, and he decamped.
A child, the result of this union, IS one
OF today's exhibits. That was in lSSS.
Victoria Meade, IL; Virginia Peters, l6.
Evaiine Adams, -. and Alice Burnet. il,
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 IL had never
been.
In May, 1891. he welded Susan Stout
ton and added one more child To his mis-
cellaneouS family. Six months later,
Nancy Pucket, a beauty OF Is. became his
bride. JOY lasted FOR nine days and Moore
fed. AS usual. offspring attested the fact
twins being now included I'm his increas-
ing responsibilities.
lie married Priscilla Williams I'm 1892 10
save her from picking blackberries for a
living. and yet another child resulted
In lS93 he was the husband OF Charlotte
Evans, and just at this time his frequent
absences I'm iail for the gentle act OF
''moonshning" made necessary iapses in
his marriage record Minerva Brashears
who became his wife In 1894 was 25 and
muscular. and chastised him for getting
drunk She and Phoebe Gaybart, the next
incumbent. each contributed child 10
the Moore clan
widow. Mrs Jane Tolson, was his
next choice She was 35. and fascinating
enough to hold him for five weeks. but
when she insisted that she loved hin,
better than her first husband the noun
thineer distrustcd her and left child
was born 10 the deserted bride. For
lengthy interval the much-married
Moore remained I'm inRle-blessedness
Then ne Payed into Fannie Robinson's
| dark eyes and was lost
Married on the 18th day ~ the month
20 his 18th wife. this father OF ~ children.
who was himself one of n family OF II