Evening star., 1933-03-25
Wilson Moore, Ex-EmpIoye
Here, Threatened Mrs.
Jacob Leander Loose.
TRAPPED IN KANSAS CITY
AFTER DEMANDING MONEY
Intended Victim, Once Reported
Engaged to Curtis, Is Resident
at Mayfower Hotel.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 25.-Wilson
Moore, 33-year-old ex-convict and for
mer clerk In the Bureau Of Printing
and Engraving, in q statement yester-
day confessed an attempted extortion
plot against Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose,
Washington and Kansas City society
woman.
Trapped by postal inspectors who fol-
lowed the directions Moore had given
his intended victim for the delivery Of
money, the former convict pleaded
guilty before United States commits
sioner to charge of sending an ex-
tortion letter through the mail.
He was held in default Of $4,000
bond for the action of the grand jury
The charge under which he entered his
plea, however, was filed in connection
rscted at Ed Dubinsky, Kansas City
theater man. -
Served Several Terms.
In q statement attributed to Moore
by Cyrus M. Zimmerman, postal in
spector, the prisoner said he served
several terms in q home for tncor-
rigtbles here, q term at the Boonville,
Mo-. reformatory. and terms at the
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berry and at the Monroe, Wash, prison
for carrying concealed weapons.
Later, the statement said, Moore was
q clerk IN the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing at Washington, serving from
1925 to 1882, under the name Of Cecil
Coles. He said the bureau was informed
Of his prison record and he was dis
charged. Resentment at what he con-
sidered society's unwillingness to let
him earn living as exemplifled by his
discharge from the bureau led Moore
to decide upon extortion after his recent
return to Kansas City, he said.
Moore's statement said he knew of
Mrs. Loose's activities and knew she was
at the Mayflower Hotel, where she had
gone for the Inauguration. He wrote
her two letters from Kansas City, the
last one being forwarded by airmail un-
der date Of March 10.
Threatened Death.
He said he expected Mrs. Loose to be
frightened, since he threatened her life
and property, told her he knew all
about her social standing. and warned
her not to tell the police under penalty
of death. The letters, which asked
$1,000. were signed Edwin Lewis.
In his second letter yesterday was set
as the deadline for payment. Mrs.
Loose turned the letters over to T. M.
Milligan, chief postal inspector. who
sent one Of them here yesterday.
By the simple experiment Of follow
ing directions In the letter for deliver
ing the money, officers gave dummy
letter into the hands Of Moore, who
was at the home of q brother here.
Taken to police headquarters, officers
said Moore first made an oral and then
a written confession Of the attempts
both against Mrs Loose and against the
Kansas City theater man.
Friend Of Curtis
Mrs. Loose, who resides at the May
flower Hotel, is q close friend Of former
Vice President Charles Curtis and his
sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, and
entertained them many times during
the last four years. She was hostess to
Mrs. Gam in her Summer home in
Gloucester, where she entertained on
the same lavish scale as she has done
through the Winter season in WASH
ington. Before the Inauguration Of
Vice President Curtis her engagement
to him was rumored.
She Is the widow Of one Of the
founders Of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.
and Is known for her generous support
of charity balls, concerts and other pub
lie entertainments. She established a
large memorial park in Kansas City.