The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-03-23
SAFE CRACKERS WIFE TELLS
STORY ABOUT Her life

fi'' 'ioHh d girls DOarQlng SchOOl
meeting with an ardent admirer i,
q park; quick courtship and an EN-
gagement; unyielding objection to tn
match by the girls father; an elope
ment through a window from tn,
school; a hasty marriage and then
well then, an awakening to the fac
that her husband was a safe blowe,
by profession. Did they live happily
ever after? The husband, J. C. Moore
was shot to death at Trenton las,
Monday morning when he was in the
act of blowing open safe and the
wife IS prisoner on the third floor
of the Richland county Jail.
Mrs. Moore, who didn't care to give
her maiden name when seen yester-
day in the county JAIL is decided
blonde of sturdy type. She says she
is 20 years old and even after having
undergone during the past two days,
close questioning at the hands of off,
GERS who have been endeavoring to
procure information from her, she
does not seem worn nor exhausted.
She smokes necessarily, lighting one
cigarette after the other and inhaling
deeply almost all the smoke There
was no evidence of nervousness in her
behavior yesterday but she had been
given opportunity to rest during the
day.
Talks With Freedom.
Mrs. Moore makes no objection to
talking about her career with the man
who met death at Trenton while blow
ing safe.
"I thought I loved him at first"
she said, "but I know now there can
be no real love unless there is re-
spect.
"Yon see, 4 was just kid when
met him. I was attending boarding
school near Huntingdon, w. Va, sew
eral years ago.. and the authorities
+wep'd permit the: girls to walk out
through park. -.
"0nce when we were I'M, the park il
met Mr.. Moore, was just q Kid and
he seemed very fond of me-he was
8. prince to me. He wanted me 'to1
c'ore With him, but told him to ask
nv dad and he would give me to him,
II was the Youngest in the family
and. ggess i was, spoiled. Well, dad
nearly ran Mr. MOOR :. faacal
when he asked for me-he was sus-
n'cicus of him from the first. I was
taken out of school and was kept at
home.
"After some time persuaded father
to let me return to school. and then
cne night got out of the window and
went away with Mr.. Moore. Since
that time we have been in every state
in the union, suppose. For a good
while I did not know what my hus-
band did-see, was young and ig-
norant.
"He was prince to me. Never
spoke cross word to me throughout
our acquaintance and while I would
sometimes get mad all over and fly
off, he was always kind and consid-
crate.
Wanted to Leave Him.
"My husband was always kindness
itself, but I wanted to leave him. I
tried to make him jealous-would let
him hear conversations over the tele-
phone so that he would get made and
leave. But he was so kind and con-
siderate that could not make up my
mind just to quit him.
II really was the cause of his being
arrested and serving time in Georgia
One morning when we were in Colum-
bus, Ga, he came into my room and
laid $4,000 in cash and bonds on my
bed
81 took some Of the bonds to At
lanta with which to buy some clothes
/ was afraid to try to cash the 81 900
bonds so / tried my hand on one for
$500. 1t sold readily. was all puffed
up over my success; see, was young
and ignorant. Then I tried to cash
more bonds, but these bonds had been
registered and between my visits
there had been some investigation.
Word had reached the Office to hold
me in conversation If I came back
to cash more bonds. SO the clerk
talked to me-tried to flirt-and when
! came down in the elevator it seemed
like the whole detective force Of At
lanta was after me. squealed then
there didn't seem to be anything
else to do.
$50 my husband was sent to the
Georgia pcnitentiary on a 20-year SEN
tence. He served two years of it
you see. they kept changing him from
cell to cell so rapidly that he could not
get out. But he left the prison after
two years and came to me in Augusta
"My husband came to me there
he did not upbraid me for squealine
on him said there was nothing else
l could do, being a woman. I urged
him to leave town, told him the off.
GERS would surely be after him anc
told him would let him know how
things were. But I intended to b,