The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-01
PASTOR, Wife
FLEE ILLINOIS
IN MOOR CASE
Slayer'S Father Threatens
Arrest for Removal of
Girls Effects.
NOTES GIVEN OFFICIALS
Two Letters Barring Death
Fear of City Teacher to
Be Evidence.

Safe today in Indiana, the Rev.
and Mrs. Alison E. Wrentmore. 22l
South Ritter avenue, are in undis-
puted possession of the personal
effects Of their slain daughter, Mrs.
Marjorie Moor, whose husband, HUI
bert c. Moor, is held at Marshall,
Ill. charged with numbering her
The parents of Mrs Moor, who
with her husband had been on t'Ae
faculty of the Robinson GllD hOl
school, hurried out of Illinois
Wednesday, after declaring they had
been threatened with arrest by
Joseph d. Moor, % South Irvington
avenue, father Of the accused slayer.
Incensed at Removal
According to the minister and his
wife. the elder Moor became in
censed because the daughters be-
longing we're removed from the
home.
The Wrentmores assert they had
permission of authorities and of the
slain womans husband to take the
property, much of which was gifts
presented by the parents.
Leaving Robinson, the Rev. and
Mrs. Wrentmore went to Marshall,
and conferred with Victor Miller,
Clark county states attorney, who
will prosecute Hubert Moor, and
we're advised TO leave the state as
soon as possible.
Accepting the suggestion, the cou-
pie drove east out of Marshall, with
Miller and a Times representative
as an escort.
Gives Him Letters
After the state line was passed
Mrs. Wrentmore gave Miller two
letters said to have been written
by his daughter, and which are ex-
pected to prove valuable evidence
in determining what penalty shall
be imposed upon Moor, who signed
a confession of the murder Sunday.
One letter addressed ITO whom it
may concern relates an incident
upon which a theory that Moor at
tempted to poison his wife May 5,
may be based. The other letter, adj
dressed to her brother, l.. l.. Wrent-
more of South Bend, contents of
which was not divulged in full, is
said to have expressed a fear that
Moor was plotting murder to obtain
$4,000 insurance on his wife's life.
The second letter, it is said, re-
lates that Moor drew revolver
while he and his wife we're riding
near Champaign, Ill, with the re-
mark. That if you don't like the
way things are going, you can get
out"
$1,000 Loan Refused
That Moor, about the time the
letters were written, had a specific
reason for wanting $4,000 was re-
vealed today at a Robinson bank.
1t is said he and an associate tried
to obtain loans of $4,000 each TO
engage in a pottery business at
Murphysboro, Ill. Moor offered his
$4,000 life insurance policy and one
on the life of his wife in the same
amount as collateral. The loan was
refused
Oficials of the bank said Moor
declared he wished to get out Of
the teaching profession because it
had no future. He told them he
had made a study of the pottery
business and was to be treasurer of
a company at Murphysboro in event
he could obtain $4,000.
Body of Mrs. Moor with two bull
let wounds in the heart was found
in the automobile driven by her
husband the morning Aug. Is, near
Marshall. The couple was returning
to their home in Robinson after
spending a weekend here with rela-
tives.
For several days Moor maintained
his wife had been shot by robbers.
In his confession he stated the
tragedy was the climax of long
period of brooding over his wife's
ambition to be a teacher to the
detriment Of her success as a house
wife.