The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-16
Champion Dodger
 Of AIim0ny Broke
 On $24,0OO A Year

New York, July 16-Henry Gibson Moore, the millionaire spendthrift, who has figured in what is perhaps the most notorious and protracted ali nony suit ever brought in this coun- try, and who has for over ten years
 lodged the payments agreed upon in the divorce proceedings by jumping gracefully from one State to another, has made-for the time being at least his last Jump. Found last Satur-
 day in New Haven. Conn. he was es- corted by his four bondsmen to the
 Bergen County Jail in Hackensack,
 N. J.. where he received a reporter of
 The Evening World and told his story.
 MT. Moore has taken that old quo
 tation from Shakespeare and revised
 it until it reads:
 s.AlI the world is but checker board,
 And all the wives and husbands mere
 ly players"
 mind MT. AGoore's first move was to jump from Philadelphia so that he might avoid the first payments of the aliInony. This was back in 1902. When he was pursued by fresh litigation in this State MT. Moore decided that it was his turn to jump again. He jumped to New Jersey. In New Jer- sey he was under bonds of S3O,000 not to leave the state on a. writ of ne exeat, but by this time he had formed the habit, and two months ago he jumped to Connecticut. Soon after his disappearance from New Jersey his four bondsmen employed detec- tives and found that he had gone to New Haven.
 Moore was arrested two years ago in Hackensack, but on account of ill., ness he was allowed to go to the Hackensack Hospital. where with his own servants and his own hired guard he lived in state of luxury which harm onized with the reputed extravagances Of his life up to that time. An effort is being made again to have Moore put in the hospital. but it has met with strong opposition. The amount of alimony which is now said to be due is considerably in excess Of $s0.o00.
 When the reporter, just to start things. asked Moore in what business he had been engaged, Moore confess ed that his only business had been m eeting and evading actions brought by his wife and others. Tn 1908 Mrs. Moore had a jury drawn to examine his sanity. In the same year he was accused by James L. Deegans a truck driver, of having stolen peegan's wife To prevent Moore's life from becom- ipg tedious. his valet brought suit against him, and his daughter elop- ed. Later she turned detective and infoxmedsa process server of his where abouts. Meanwhile the question of alimony kept coming up to i'll in the dull intervals.
 Outside of g few little things like these, P said Moore, looking pleasantly through the,ibars of his cell. "nny do- mestic life has been untroubIed and idyIlic.
 What people can't4seem to under stand" he continued, .'is that man doesn't have much left out of two thousand a month after he has paid his florist and his cab and theatre bills. If I paid the sums for alimony which have been demanded by my wife, I shouldn't have enough left to buy even fifty cent cigars or bouton- nieres. At present am the victim of conspiracy. AS soon as my check comes-it goes. Fl don't keep a bank booI-so don't 1 know where-but there's robbery in It.
 "And keeping me in this cell is a | confounded outrage said Moore. ''I haven't done anything I can't ex- plain. The irony of 1t is that my l wife instead of me ought to be be- hind the bars
 "Is it hard to learn to swim ?,' asx- sd the sweet young thing.
 Dear ma. ro.'' reDIied inc mora l