The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-11-05
From Betrayer Who Fol-
lowed Them.
He GAVE UP GOOD BUSINESS
Several Times To Escape the
DIGGING Footsteps Of
Their PurSuer.
4 Is SILENT AS TO PAST LIFE

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that his wife, ruined while a mere
child by her brother-in-law, still
feared the power of her alleged Sc
Queer, and that he, as her husband,
had more than once been forced to
give up good position and flee
upon receiving news that her Meme
sis was again on her trail, ]. w.
Lindsey alias j. c. Moore, arrested
in Canada and brought back here
under requisition on charge of
larceny after trust, convinced a jury
of his innocence and was declared
not guilty.
The trial Just completed, involv-
ing international questions of law,
prosecuted by one of the largest life
insurance companies in the world
and featured by the defendant S
tale of mystery and persecution,
makes one of the most remarkable
chapters in the court annals of
Clarke county.
AS the verdict was given there
was a murmur of approval, and
spectators and jurors grasped Lind
sey's hand and assured him of their
high esteem.
In explanation of why he had
suddenly departed from Athens with
his wife last April. giving up very
profitable insurance position here
and leaving behind various business
obligations. furniture and a new au-
tomobile. Lindsey depended on his
bare statement.
He said that when in Denver
more than two years ago he met the
young woman, who. after a brief
courtship, became his wife, He
said that after a happy life of some
months his wife, anxious without APP
parent cause and distraught over
some hidden matter, confessed to
him that when she was IL years old,
living with a married sister, the sis
ter's husband, man named Beas-
ley. had wronged her; that he had
had her under his control through
fear for several years, and that re-
peatedly he had forced her to sub
nit to him; that she finally, to es-
cape him, ran away and became a
nurse, employed by doctor in Den
YER; that in his employ she was
treated shamefulIy by her employer,
being once chloroformed; that she
could not keep this haunting secret
longer.
Moore. or Lindsey, as he was then
known, declared that the shock
dazed and numbed him, and he at
first decided to leave the wife who
had confessed to him the horrible
secret life of terror she had led. He
first demanded to meet the two men
face to face and have her charge
them with the wrongs. He called
Beasley, he declares, to his Office,
and when Beasley rather boldly ad-
mitted her statement, Moore threw
a pistol in his face and was about
to execute the fierce threat to take
his life in vengeance, when the sec
ond thought came of the publicity.
the trial, the trouble-and he deter
mined upon another course. He call
ed the doctor and faced him with
the charge-and then declined for
the same reason to end the physi-
clans life. 1t was said that the two
men gave him 900 with which to
build a house for his wife on tract
of land she owned near Denver. He
built the house. he claims, and had
secured furniture for it-purposing
TO provide for the wife and leave
her.
But his love and her patient sim
cerity. fidelity and absolutely ire
proachable conduct tugged at him
and he decided to fee with her to a