Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-04-05
TRENTON BURGLAR is KNOWN.
Wife .of Man Who Was Killed While
Attempting Robbery Talks.

~ hSN2uPtlnS 1tODucry I0lkE.
Aadispatch from Columbia con-
corning the recent attempted rob-
berry at Trenton says:
Disclosure Of lengthy list Of bank
robberies pcrpetrated in Georgia and
South Carolina by j. G. Moore, who
was slain az Trenton at an early hour
IN the morning recently, was made
by Mrs. Moore here. Her husband
wos surprised and slain while rob-
bing a bank in Trenton, being shot
by Constable u. NJ. Crouch. Mrs.
Moore identified the body as that of
her husband and established the fa act
that he was the escaped Johnnie
Nolan" who was sent up for twenty
years, from Fulton county, Georgia,
IN 1920 for robbing the College Park
Bank.
we made our headquarters in
Atlanta and Augusta" Mrs. Moore
said. "My husband kept nothing
from me-he would tell me of eyery
Job ne was planning. He had prom
iscd to quit afte: this year.
II really was The cause OF his be-
ing arrested and serving time in
Georgia" she continued. One morn
ing when We were in Columbus, Ca,
he came into my room and laid S3S,-
600 In bonds on my bed. | took some
of the bonds to Atlanta with which
to buy some clothes. l was afraid to
try to cash the $1,000 bonds, so
tried my hand on one OF the $500. 1t
sold readily.
Success Proved Undoing.
Il was all puffed up over my sue
cess. You see, l was young and ig-
norant. Then / tried to cash more
bonds, but these bonds had been req
istered Word had reached the Of
fees to hold me in conversation if
] came back to cash more bonds. SO
the clerk talked to me-tried to 1irt
and when | came down in the Gle
vator it seemed like the whole de-
tectiYe force Of Atlanta was after
me. 'squealed' then. There didn't
seem to be anything else to do So
my husband was sent to the Georgia
penitentiary on 20-year sentence.
lie 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 did not upbraid me
for 'squealing' on him. He said that
there was nothing else l could do, 1
being woman. l urged him to leave
town, told him the officers would
surely be after him, and told him
would let him know how things
were. But I intended to be some
where else when he returned to Au-
gusta for me-
Without any more emotion than
& woman would display in showing
how dress WAS made, Mrs. Moore
told Of her husbands movements, Of
an accident that happened to the
car she and he were riding in while
in Columbia, Of his having to 60 "a
bed for treatmen. while recovering
from injuries, and Of The low state
Of their finances when he recovered.
"He blew the Blythewood Bank
and got $1,165 from there" she said.
"At Roberta, Ga, he lost his car and
had to leave in a hurry. From An
gusta he did the Blythewood rob-
berry, and then we moved to Column
bia.
~ had gotten him to promise that
he would quit after this season. You
see, safe-blowers do not work in the
summer. The winter is their season.
after we had moved to Columbia
my husband did the Little Mountain
job, and then tried BlackstocH. but
lost out there.
"Then he worked Gilbert. At Gil
bert he got only SIS. He blew the
wrong safe and did not have time to
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