Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-02
SCRIPTURE FULFILLED
Money Quits Some Folks
Hands Too Rapidly.
ONE CHAPS MONEY METHOD
Distributes $150,0O0 of the Long
Green in Two Months.
CANNOT SUPPORT HIS WIFE
How He Separates Himself From
Cash-Another Takes His Life
; After Squandering Fortune.
CANNOT SUPPORT HIS WIFE

NEW YORK, January 2.-Henry G
Moore. millionaire by inheritance ant
"spendthrift' by reputation, who is be-
ing sued for alimony and divorce, does
not know how he spends his money.
! Attorney Abraham Snydecker sale
Tuesday night that Mr.. Moore really
couldn't remember overnight where he
spent his income of 5000 a month. But
he gets rid of it all and cannot take care
of wife besides, the attorney declares
why Mr.. Moore recently received
$4,000 in accumulated interest on his
fortune" said Mr.. Snydecker. In two
months he spent it all, without opening a
bank account, and he does not know
where it went.
"One night Moore bought $4,000 worth
of jewelry and gave it all away, and he
can't remember TO whom he gave it,
Moore has played checkers with his
wife through three states. 1t is admitted
that she got judgment against him in
Philadelphia, where they were married
and that he moved to New Jersey before
she could collect. When she got judgment
for accumulated alimony in New Jersey
he crossed to New York. The alimony
claim, at the rate of $3.50 a month, now
calls for more than $4,000.
"Broke" on $4,000 a Month.
Mr.. Moore had himself declared a bank
rupt because he couldn't keep track of
his liabilities and because he was
broke" through getting from $1,000 to
$500 a month.
This remarkable man, who is living Sc
cluded in a big New York apartment
house. the exact whereabouts of which
his attorney will not reveal. has house
y, aT11n6 Mrc ~ "a he
is named by Mrs. Moore in her divorce
suit.
According to Attorney snydecker his
client:
Never worked in his life.
Never kept A bank account.
Spends more than SD 900 every year
and cannot tell where or how he spends
it.
Spends 800 night for wine.
Never drank any intoXicant but wine,
firm.
Never walks in the city. but uses cab
if he but crosses the street.
Smokes Cigars at Sc Each.
Pays $1,000 year for a New York
apartment
Pays 5000 per one hundred for cigars
made to order"
Denies that he can spare alimony to his
wife because his cab, theater and flower
bills take all his available cash.
Always wears a boutonniere. for which
his florist has grown a special flower.
Can't remember when he was married
or when his wife sued him for divorce, OF
of any alimony DEGREES being issued
against him.
The attorney said that he asked his
client about the marriage which resulted
in the separation and that Moore told
him this story:
well. sir. 1 don't remember getting
married. But one morning L found a
young lady in my home. l was surprised
sir, ana said SO. Why, dear, don't you
said she. We'll. if that is what you say,
I guess we were. but l don't remember
anything about it, l told her, and since
then she has claimed me as her husband"
Case Almost Settled.
Tuesday night Attorney George S. Ora
ham, for Mrs. Moore, declared that settle
ment of the suit for alimony has been
reached and that it would be presented in
court as soon as it could be reduced to
writing.
In August, 1903, James l.. Deegan, a
truck driver, broke into apartments eccu-
pied by Moore, at 300 West 9th street,
and attacked the millionaire because he
thought the latter had lured Mrs. Deegan
from home. In December of that year
Mrs. Moore had jury drawn to examine
her husband for his sanity, alleging that
he withheld the nc essities of life from
her and her de-" .er, and lavished not
only money. at costly clothes, diamonds,
carriages "a horses upon Mrs. Deegan.''
Moore won the decision in the insanity
proceedings.
Iii suit brought by his valet, it was
charged that the servant, a negro, gave
Moore champagne baths twice each day