The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-13

Deafening applause from a packed
courtroom greeted the defendants
Moore, instead OF being convicted.
on her for killing Leroy Harth. prom
inent business man.
"She has probably saved many
other girls from being debauche d, y
added counsel for Miss Moore. While
her counsel was eloquentIy pleading
her case Miss Moore sat in tho court
room and wept bitterly.
Counsel continuing, compared the
case with the case of Leo Frank and
Mary Fagan except that Maude
Moore came out the victor.
Comparisons were made between
character of the defendant and that
of the dead man. counsel proclaim
ing that Harth was a rich man with
! his hands flashing with diamonds
| and also a man who had whisky
money and automobile and de-
sire fer nothing but to satisfy his
lust.
Object Robbery
1OuHotl 1OI lHt prosecution
charged that Maude Moore's only OBJ
ejct was to rob Harth but admitted
that Harth when killed was on a
mission of immortality. Harth, when
found, had on his diamond ring
worth $500 which counsel for de-
fense charged showed that no pur-
pose to rob him had ever been shown.
Harth's brother in law, while on the
,tn A lnr
! hearing Miss Moore was released on
$4,000 bond and Martin Hunter, her
| friend, on 5000. Miss Moore's bond
was signed by II. L. Brady, p. d
/ Doyle, Charles Armstrong, Ed Nc
New and +. l.. Renegan. During the
trial Miss Moore became exhausted
she fell into the lap of her mother
Hal b. Clements is attorney for Miss
Moore.
Calm at First.
| AS Maude Moore went on the stand
/ in her own defense, she was calm
! She said she was a stenographer
| having worked for the American Zinc
company, Greenwood Advertising
! company, Lester Rogers and at sew
eral other places. The courtroom was
again packed, hundreds being turned
away
She admitted she had been married
twice. Her first husband died, anC
a divorce ensued after the seConC
marriage.
She told about giving her mothers
pistol to Frank Lindsey on the nigh
of the riot, Aug. 30 and said he re-
turned it on the following Monday.
She gave the gun to Hunter, sh'
declared. He kept it until Frlda!
when he returned it to her at tn
Knoxville Railway and Light com
pany transfer station.
Mr. Harth saw the pistol and asket
for it. She later gave 1t to him. Sh
asked him for the gun several day
later and he told her to call him las
Monday She called four times, ant
made n date for him to take her t,
Maryville Monday night,
It was at Mr.. Harth's suggestion
that a party was to be arranged, sh
said. She told of leaving Nj
Hangstefer at the Farragut hotel am
then starting down Kingston pike, t
which she protested. Harth refused
to let her out, she declared, and h
began drinking whisky.
lnsuIted Her.
HE insuIted mo and made som
very ungentIemanIy remarks" sal
the girl.
She then related revolving story Q
how she declared Harth sought to fore
her TO commit an act which she tol
him she would die million times be
fore she would submit.
He grabbed me out by the hair an
knocked me down" she added
He ran away a short distance an
fell Maude testified, getting up an
running on toward Jett's farm. Ac
cording to her story she then tried t
st9rt the automobile. but the self
, starter wouldn't work. II was so eX
cited that | don't know how | got I
town" she added.
Afraid TO Tell Mother.
Hunter was the only person TO whoI
she felt that she could tell her stor!
she said, being afraid to tell even he
mother.
Maudo Moore kept her eye stralgh
on Squire Sellers during the recital.
She told how her clothes were tori
and explained that she had sent Hun
ter to the l.. & N. depot to get r chang
OF clothes from her baggage, whic
closed the 1rst time, and he went again
securing them.
We went to Cave Springs at m
own suggestion" she told the cour
She added that Hunter had tried to per
suade her to give up to the authorities
Honor or Life.
Here the woman stated that ''it wa
} my honor or his life and ! shot
{ Maude pulled off her hat to sho'
the court how Harth had pulled he
out of the car by her hair and he
I left shoulder The door was open, sh