The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-06-12
RETRLBUTlO)N
,,,cH MARRIED MANS
a TROUBLES AIRED IN COURT

wives Appear !" S
proof of the Legality OF 'ne'r war
riages. .; 1ohn VIZ
A1 resident of this place, but Who
Mool n1s for varnish house, was ar
u@t tod nv local police directly after he
le0. :1,od here in response to telegram
i1:rr him home, which by the way
cail' crane up" to catch him. Mr..
w"S remained in Jail in default of
1ond until Saturday morning when the
ao was tried and he was bound over
o~ Jor $4,000 bond for his appearance
~ criminal court at Greensboro
June is. os sho
afors to he known, Miss Bessie Maui
pav of Monroe, Ca, was one OF the
N.Y. 4Il,o nrincipal witnesses for the State,
tbo other being Marvin Hicks Drotner
of wife Number One. Miss Mauney
odo very fine witness, and favor
nh11, IMPRESSED all who heard her.
Tho first evidence offered was GER
.:aod conv of the license to wed is
snod nv the register of deeds Of Gull
eoTd county to John William Moon and
Io1o Nav Hicks on April 6, 1898. They
,roro married in this city the follow
no dav a. Mr.. Alderman, Baptlst
n,inister. performing the ceremony A
hrother of the first Mrs. Moone, NJ l.
11;cks was the first witness, ana ne
testified to being present at the cere-
mony. .. a
The second bit of interesting ana
..nor+an+ evidence offered was a certl-
God conv of the records in the onlce
nf tho nrobate judge of Spartanburg
county, spartanburg, S. Z. rms Snow
od that Miss Bessie Elizabeth Mauney
Of Monroe, Ca, and John W1ll1an
Moon Of Lynchburg, Va, were unlteu
IN marriage on August 81, 1918. In ad-
di+io, n the certification OF the rec
ordc there was later exhibited ana
rlaced in the evidence the marriage
certificate of the second OF the prose
cutting witnesses.
The Georgia witness. an attractive
woman, was the second and last per
son To testify in the case, the PROSE
cution resting and the defense uollAs
l5kou,ise she testf1ied that she WAS
horn in Morganton, this state, ~ano
when quite young removed with ner
narents to Edenton, Ga. Later tney
moved to Monroe. Miss Mauney net
1ohn W Moon on August z, 1911
while on the way from AsheVllle'
where she had been for her nealth' u
her home. In June, OCTOBER No'eni'
her and December Of that year ne was
a caller at her home, she testiheu
Che also saw him in Asheville during
Nav or June. of 1918, it being custom
arv for her to spend her summers
there by order of physicians. Sne was
there in August when Mr.. Moon came
and thew decided to go to SpartanDure
and he married. The documentary eVl
dence. already described. covers 'nis
part of the witness testimony.
They boarded in Ashev1lle Tor d
while as man and wife and later dlCe'
a visit to her relatives IN Georg,a
went to keeping house in AsheV1l.e I've
this state. as Mr.. and Mrs. Jonn w
Moon. A short time after houseKe0p
ing was started Mr.. Moon announces
that he had accepted a position VIII
another concern, she stated anu 'n"
different territory had been given nlll. III.
necessitating their removal 10 bal'i
more and the breaking up or mouse
keeping. Temporarily the second MIS-
Moon was installed in an AsheVLli'
hotel to await word to go 10 b7l''
more. 1t was while they were l.'in'
at hotel when the susp: c1ons oA 'n'
second Mrs Moone we're first arou99'
by the receipt of letter On liz, p'i
of the man from the first MRS NooA'
Moon stoutly denied the Wrlter wa
his wife. the witness testified. ana d.
tempted to explain the incident Dv d.
serting that the writer was a WOhlal
for whom he felt sorry because " ',i''
eating circumstances which toOh ph0>.
when he and the writer were nluc
younger. Then, according to the WI
ness followed a fit of intoxlcatloh "
TIE rqrt of the defendant and sne son
the letter to her father at Monroe "A
asked him to investigate. moon Iol
tinued to drink and she returned TO ne
home leaving him at Baltimore. AL
the Investigation disclosed the Id>
that the first Mrs. Neon and ner Lou
children resided in High Point.
elder, boy, apparently about ~ yeal
Of age, accompanied his mother an
the young Georgia woman to court tn
morning. . .
On cross-examination the secon
Mrs. Moon, or Miss Mauney, adm1tee 'e
previous marriage, in 1918, but seo
ed she was granted the final OF an I"
solute decree at Greensboro, Ga.'
July, 1917, Just a month before 81 81
first met Neon. The decree OF tt
court restored to her her HlaluT
name. The witness was repea'o"
asked if she had ever known ia
Moon was addicted to the use Oh 10
cotics to relieve the pangs OF rneuni
t'Sm and she replied very posltlSe
no" Moon was a peculiar sort
hat