Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17

met with foul play. never realizing ahs
had met with foul play
"She was one Of the two wives I loved
most" Moore sobbed He said The other
was Bessie" whom he married at VIII
son, n. C., but, despite this fact, hR
could not remember her last mama.
Moore said the reason he and tbs
Shields woman were married by a priest
was because that particular wife was q
Catholic.
Moore insisted the newspapers had
done him a great injustice in limiting that
he had married most Of his various wives
for money. He declared that he nab
married them merely out of a desire fOE
companionship.
After each marriage, Moore said, he
would sometimes work four OF five days
and sometimes as long as three months,
and that he would live happily With his
wife during that tine Then he would
go away.
His action in doing this, he said, was
due to his nervous condition
When he finally realized what he had
done he said it often would be three or
four days and sometimes two or three
weeks after his disappearance and then
it was too late to return to his deserted
wife He admitted he had never at any
I time teIephoned or written to any of the
wives after DESERVING them.
As the detectives questioned hiE in re-
gard to information received in various
letters Moore would read the letters care
fully before making an answer.
Two letters received from merchants in
Oakwood, Ohio, were shown 10 him and
he was asked if he had married Grace
Gettel, the woman mentioned in the let
n i IL he-s
When asked if he had ever worn a
mustache, as the description Of the man
at Oakwood stated, he declared he had
not.
In regard to Chief Of Police Thomas
O'Briens telegram from Ann ArbOr,
Mich Moore said he never had used the
alias McAvOy or married any Detroit
girl under that name. The letter asked
concerning a man named McAv0y who
had married q Detroit girl
In regard to the marriage at Aurora.
Ill, March 4, 1921, referred to in one Of
the letters, Moore denied marrying any
woman in that city and said he had never
been there. When questioned about his
marriage to Helen Hargrave at Augusta.
Kan, Moore admitted he had married
her, but said he could not recollect the
name he used.
did not measure up TO the standard Of
the other women.
She was Laura Hertxbsrs, Peoria, III,
He said her language grated on his
nerves but he thought the world and
air of her 1o-year-old SON He said
this woman deserted him at time when
he was sick in bed.
Moore declared several times # WAS
not himself he thought Of but it was
the women'S embarrassment at the eX-
posture of his many marriages and that
they were all good, clean girls.
When questioned as TO what type or
woman he liked he said he did not care
il the woman was large or small; it
was herself that he liked When asked
as to what age he preferred he asserted,
some younger and some older" When
asked as to the age of his wives he
said Gertrude. the girl married in Find
lay, Ohio, who was Is years old, was the
youngest of his wives. There were two
about IS to SO years old, the eldest Of
the wives, he said.
When questioned as to his mother aud
father he said his father was Will
liam Richard Moore, and as far
as he knew lives at Kingston. Pa
that his mother was dead, that she waG
born in Belfast, Ireland.
At the mention Of his mothers name
Moore again broke into tears WkeE
asked as to his religion, Moore said he
was reared a Methodist Tut his bAAAa4
was Christian.
On the subject of music he said Re
had no love for ragtime or jazz, but liked
only good music.
He said most OF his wives were good
housekeepers.
Letters concerning Moore continued to
arrive at police headquarters.
'Won't you please send me descTfp-
ton of the man. with the thirteen wfves:~
was the request of q note written to the
chief of police from q woman in st.
Louis. The letter was written on good
quality stationery in the handwriting of
an apparently educated woman.
Other letters came from Montreal.
Canada; Virginia. st. Paul. Mimi, and
small towns in Kentucky, Louisiana and
other States. A woman in Smith Grove,
Ky. writes her husband, who had de-
serted her, ''fell In love with some one
everywhere he went"
She inclosed a picture Of the man who
deserted her.