Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-24
LIFE OF A SAFECRACKER
Bold Burglar Brought TO Book at
Trenton. % =
WIFE TELLS STORY OF CRIME CAREER

This Was the Man Who Robbed the
Safe Of r. A. Patrick. at White Oak
and Burned the Bonds Beeause he
Could Not Negotiate Them. !.
J. C. Moore, safe cracker. and escap,
ed convict from the Georgia peniten-.
tiary, was killed in Trenton, 8. C-
early Monday morning while attempt
ing to rob safe in the store Of Mata;F
and Whitlock. He had priced dt ehes
dial, stopped the hole with explosive,
lighted his fuse and gone outside to
await the explosion. Ernest Crouch
who had heard the noise, from his
sleeping room above, came down with
a double barrel shotgun and fred at,
him twice, the first shot taking erect
in his thigh and the second IN his
vitals. When he was shot Moore had
flashlight in one hand and q pistol
in the other. t-s ~
A woman representing herself ~
Mrs. Moore went from Columbia and
identified the dead safe cracker as her
husband. Mrs. Moore was afterward
arrested and commuted to Richland
tall The following story about her.
appears in The Columbia State Of yes
terdav mornine. ~ ~ ~, ~
4z H.S.Ia
MRS moorss o's'y i...Et.
A walk through a park Witn so nh-
panions from a girfs poardins $500,
a meeting with an ardent aa y.
a park; a quick cour.sn'p anu on
sagement' uhyieiaihs ooIes'
match oy the sifiS ,a.n -.
ment 'hroush -
scnooi; a nasty ~ =. ~.
wen ~ s.,as ~ 80. 80 n,6wer
INC. Asa..,a. A Ma .,,av ,lve hannib,y ~
go ~ attera The husband = q. Moore.
uas shot % heath AT Trenton, slast
Monday morning when he was In the
cot ~ blowing omen a safe and the.
lie. :, nr,soner nm the third Ffiobr
-, the R;chland countv ,aiL
Mr.. Moore wbo didn't care TO gixe,
her rroidan name when seen yesterx
aou l. .ha conrtv iap is nj decided
h,c,a. ~ .turdv tvne she says she
i On vssr. old and wen yafter haris,E
,,ndereone during the ,pase two days,
clos. questioning at the hands Of offl-
GERS who have been endaayofing tospFos
cure inforrmuat ion from -iier,sise does not
seem worn or exhausted. She smokes
incessantly, lighting 6rie cigarette after
tha other and fnbaiina deepiy almost
all the - Isnoke, There xas no evidence
=, rar,,o,sne.s IN her bAta yior yester-
day hit sbe had been given opportu-
nitv 70 rest during the dlay.
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ar n,,. tho ,ornoest IN tbe family and
go .. sno,1ed Jve,, Sad nearly
- NJ Moora on tho MACE when he,
,,,a,d ,or -bo wa q susnjcious of him
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iroii 'he iiie'' "a "a
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oiu hot KNOW "A. my Fr-
see, was ''une aAu 80, ,,,,,,
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always was klnd ana consioeTa. =.