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FAYNE IS GOCD
Says She is a Moral Yotfng
Wonai.
HER DIARY IN COURT.
Counsel Asked Her Embaras
sing Question
New York, Dec. 24 —Fayne
Strahan Moore, the pretty Worn-1
an accused of conspiracy inj
working the badger game on
M d'tin Mahon at a hotel here, |
was on the stand night in i
brawn belnlf. The court liasj
been holding night sessions to j
get the sase through before the '
holiday recess.
Mrs. Moore said she was bom
in 1877. She went abroad to fin
ish her musical education
When she returned to this coun
trpin 1896, she decided to stay
m New York. She met Mahon
at a dinner and frequently there
after he was a visitor at her
rooms. At his suggestion she
took a room at Mrs. Fannie
Johnson’s house. She said Ma
hon took her driving and accom
panitd her oftento the theater.
Lawyer Hill, the Augusta (Ga.)
attorney assisting in the de
fenso, at this point asked a
quastion which would tend to
show that Mahon was responsi
ble for her downfall. The ques
tion was not allowed.
Speaking of the night, last
raoath, when Malien accompa
nied her to her rooms in the •
Hotel Grenoble, and when 1
Moore broke in and got mono}
from Mahon for traducing hi
wife, she said she saw no orom- i
isory note, as alleged was given
by Mahon to Moore, and she
deniedemphatically that she had
any knowledge of a “game” to
be worked on Mahon.
She also denied the statement
made by Detective Cuff that he
saw her lying in bed smoking
cigarettes. The cross examina
tion began today.
Mrs. Moore was on the stand
again today in her own behalf.
This time she underwt nt a sh iro
examination by Prosecutor Mc-
Intyre,
One corner looke 1 like a bet
ting ring. Several even wagers
were made by spectators that
•‘Pet” Moore weuldbe acquitted.
Two women were in the crowd .
Fayne Moore entirely
self possessed and answered the
prosecutor’s sharp queries
promptly and with apparent
truthfulness. She denied that
she had ever made a confession
of guilt t® Mrs. Fannie Johnson
in the Tombs prison. She said
that Mrs. Johnson had gone to
bar, in behalf of Mahon, to say
that ho did not think she was
guilty of any wrongdoing.
Then Mr. Mclntyre began a
rapid fire of questions.
“Do you know a man named
Ryan, in Atlanta?”
“Yes.”
“Doyou know he is a gam
bler?”
“I do not.”
“Is it a fact that you came to
New York with Ryan?”
“No.”
“Did you not arrange a game
of billiards between Moore and
Ryan in which Moore got SIOO6
from Ryan?”
Mrs. Moore denied this indig
nantly.
Mrs. ft core was sharp in he'
an were to Mclntyre, but meek
with Recorder Gift. Mclnt\r»
Lad some of the w< mail’s dia
ries, and they told with great
bluntuess the kind of life Faym
rd the names of many men, in-1
eluding Ellis and Count Batoni.
“Pet” admitted that she knew
them all, but merely as friends.
Mahon was brought up again,
and witness said she knew lie
was a maniedman.
“I want to get your idea of
morals.” Mclntyre interposed
at this point. “Do you think it is
right to go with a married man
simply because he is separated
from his wife?”
Prompt and pert came the an
swer from Mrs. Moore : “1 don’t
think it makes quite so much
difference-”
“Was there anything particu
larly attractive about Mahon
that made you go with him?”
“1 appreciated his kindness.”
Mrs. Moore, in answer to
questions regarding the woman
said to be William A.E.Moore’s
first wife, said she knew that
Moore had relations with her,
but there had been no marriage
ceremeny •
“She was not his wife,” she
said, “she t®ld me so herself.”
Getting back t© the diaries,
Mclntyre read from the entries
there and asked what they meant
One entrie that he read:
“Mr. Ellis.”
“What does that mean?” ask
ed Mclntyre. ,
“I wrote flirt to remind me
that I had met Mr. Eliseo at a
party that day.”
Ellis, or Elisoe, as Mrs. Moore
calls him, is the Cuban broker
who has frequently been men
tis ncd in the case.
“Whatis Moore’s business?”
Mr Mclntyre asked.
“Ho has a private income.”
•‘Has he wo:koi a day since
you knew him?”
“He has not had to do so.”
The witness then said that
Moore had re il estate in Cle.ve
-1 tn.l ami interests in Seuth Af
rica.
“Didn’t you have to send to
E lis to get money to pay your
counsel foes when you were ar
rested?”
“Certainly nor.”
“Do you swear that you did
not get SBOO from him?”
“1 do.”
During the reading ot the en
tries from the diary the Record
er excluded all the messenger
boys fiom the court.
Fayne Moore denied that her
husband and she had badgered
a Russian nobleman in Paris.
She also denied having stolen
silverware from the Waldorf
hotel.
She#aidher husband was
West while she was going with
Mahon. She said Moore and
the bad disagreed.
“He drank and beat me and
tore my clothes up,” she said,
and then she cried,
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New York, Dec. 24.—The
fate of Mrs. Fayne Stiahan
Moore is now in the hands cf
the jury. Argument in the case
was concluded at 11 o’clock
iast night and upon the reas
sembhng of court at 10:30
o’clock today Recorder Goff be
gan his charge. The jury retired
at 12: 45 and it is generally be
lieved that a verdict will be
reached not later than tonight.
Tomorow being Christmas
day renders it certain that the
jury will not bo long in coming
to terms. The recorder’s charge
was in most respects, unfavor
able to the defendant. A great
portion of it was devoted to re
futing the grounds advanced in
Mr. Hill’s speech for the de
fense.
MOGBIi Nt T SENTENCED.
New York, Dec. 23. —Wil-
liam A. E. Mo< re, convicted last
week of robbing Martin Mahon,
•vas not sentenced today as ex
pected. Sentence will not be
passed until his wife’s trial is
DANGEROUS BLAZE.
Big llulesak Dry Gaeds and
Shoe Hedse of
MESSRS. BABS XHEAh’B
Suffers Heavily, Thobeh Cov
ered by Insurance.
At about 11:30 on Friday
night an alarm rung in by a
police offic- r from box 3G, called
the dpartment to the big whole
sale dry groods nnd shoe hou?o
of Bass & Heard, corner Rroad
and Second avenue.
While the alarm was still
ringing, Assistant Chief F.
Hanson dashed into Broad St , 1
at Fourth Ave., and seeing ths j
flare of light from the Bass A
Heard building, and recogniz
ing the great danger, promptly
rang in the general alarm.
The department responded
nobly an Iby heroic work con
quered the flames and controled
the fire in a couple of hours’
time.
When the department arrived
the flames had gained fearful
headway, basement, first and
second floors being seething
furnaces. Windows were smash
ed, however, and in an incredi
ble short time five powerful
streams were playing on the fire.
The damage is a matter of ‘
pure guess work just at this
present time, as the stock was
smoked and flooded.
The stock was between $47,-
000 aad $50,000 end the insu
rance is $37,000, ample enough
to cover the damage to the stock
Os course the firm will have to
suspend business pending an
adjustment with the insurance
people,which may be consumat
ed next week. Then, too, the
stock, when inspected, may turn
out to be damaged to such an I
extent that the big business of i
Messrs. Bass & Heard will nec
essirily suffer.
But. be that as it may, the
firm will be ready to push busi
ness again Immediately after
the adjusters finish and these
are expected ou Tuesday or
Wednesday of this week.
The big building, the property
ol the Battey estate,is consider
ably damaged, especially in the
basement, ou the first floor and
on the stairways and the second
floor but it is also covered by
insarance.
The fire must hate originated
from coals rolling down from
«v
the grate in the office and burn,
ing through the floor to the
basement, where it spread rapid
and then mounted the stair
ways.
The porter al ways makes up
the fire in the office grate when
leaving the store, as Capt
Heard always, and Cipt. Bass
generally returns to the office
alter supper.
Friday night, however, these
gentlemen attended the Rey
nold’s reception in East Rome
and neither were at the office
after tea.
The fire probably rolled down
■ and burned its way to the base
meat as suggested above.
There is not a finer pair, or
two more enterprising business
men in the state than E. A.
Hear 1 and J. L. Bass. The good
people of Rome sympathize
with them in their loss ami hop*
it will be speedily adjusted and
that the firm may soon bo sub
jrcting new territory to the sway
| of commercial R me.
3r- -Li. j i
WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
m tire family of Post masterWitl
row and Grace Fate were poi
soned last ii'ght by eating here
cheese which was made in a
brass kettle.
The members of Withrow’s
family are in a critical condition.
DOCK AT HAVANA.
War Department i_et A SSOO,-
000 Contract.
Pittsburg, Pa , D e 21 —The
Drake & Stratton company o f
Pittsburg has just received a con
tract from the Unit'd States Gov
ernment thr< ugh the War Depart
m°nt for the construction of a
great d< ck at Havana. Cuba, and
a abort railroad to M<>rro Castle,
costing, all together about $500,-
000
The company has already dis
patched 500 laborers and two ship
loads of machinery to ih: island
and th- work will be ru-h>M to
completion by nxt -May. The
wotk is being done io enable the
War Department io reseqmp
the famous cattle overlooking Ha
vana Hai l or.
■ ?.U»LJ IJ!L -
DOUBLE DAILY' SERVICE TO
FLORIDA VIA SOUTHERN
Railway.
The Southern Ri Iway, in con
nection with the Florida Central
and Penimular R, R., o| erates
two trans daily Rome to Jackson
ville, Fla., both of which carry
baudsom Pullman Drawing Room
Sleeping Cars. Train leaving
Berne 8120 p in arrives Jackson
ville the mxt mornii g at 8:55 a
tn. This is a solid train carrying
Baggage and Express car, Bay
Coaches, and Pullman Drawing
R "’in Sleeping Car through to
J cupi.nvilie without change,
Train leaving Ran- a’ 9.1a a. m.
a: rives Jae-s nvillo 9:55 p, in ,
-fi m j day, tuH < :• elegant
Pu'lmai: S >--p : g t’ar through
without ch-s e nnection it
mad.-: al Jacksonville for all points
in Florida
For farther information call on
J N. Harrison, C. T: A. Arm
strong H 'tai. Telephone No 34,
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PchSOL NINTiON.
I
Mr. P, S E.heridg', of Ailan
a, was here yesterday.
Messrs. L. A and K. Lit d av>
of Crystal Springs were gues •: of
the Central hotel yes erday
Warter’s “twofers” the f. -
mous “Terrel! Speed” cigars are
growing more popular each day
Mr. \V, G. M. Simmons, a
prominent citizen of Center,
Ala., but who will soon make
Cedartown his home, was here
yesterday.
Assistant Secretary of Stat'
John W. Cain pa-sed through the
city yesterday enroute from At
lanta to his hotne in Su nrm rvilh
to speed the hoiid iys, Edttoi
Cain has a cf frmnds and ad
mirers in the Hill City:
¥
Mr. Lou Wagner, the genial
and successful builder of cit\
water systems, accompanied bj
his pretty daughter, Miss Jessie,
arrived home Friday night from
Greensboro, Ga., and will re
mam here until Tuesday.
NO FAKE—
BUT SOLID'FACIS.
«
Mrs. A. 0. Garrard
will, from today, begin
an actual cost sale to
close out her large win
ter stock. Choice Felts
for ladies and children
at prices that cannot
be found elsewhere,
Beits, HairOrnanr enls
ana Buckles,a Ito go
©t cost to close them
out. uon’t fail to call
and get prices before
PROSPMS L S H,
Full Rtsloialien of Wages Io
s iflade
ON JANUARY NEXT.
Thu 5 anti IO Percent Reduc
tion Caiculed.
Louisville K\-., Dec. 23. —The
18,000 emp’.iyvs of the L. <t N.,
R R.. will tliH yea" enjoy the
most pleasing lii lid iy season
they have known for years, and
certainly the most ph a-ant ol
the jiast five.
’According to the promise that
if the earnings of Ihe r< ad war
'ranted it the re naming 5 per
cent-br tlie 10 per c nt reduction
made’in Augu-t. 1892, would be
restored at the first of the year
the employes wiil, on Janu iry 1
begin to receiv - ‘-be same wages
and salaries that were paid them
before the dark davs of 1893
The earnings of the road in
the past few months have been
such as to leave li tie doubt that
the promised restoration would
be made. A reporter was inform
cd at the office of the general
manager of the ro: d t day that
the restoration would be made.
The L. N. is acting in perfect
good faith with its employes.
When the reduction was first
an lounced in ci culars of Au
gust 7 and August 14, 1893, the
men were prom -ed that as soon
as the earnings j i-t-fied it the
Cut w udbe r> >r- I The r -
d'm-ii l - affected a I fr.irn Presi
<!eui Milton H S -itih m the
humblest mos-i-:;_.< r. ’The em
ployes acted witii r.ire good
sense. There was scarcely a
grumble. They ec-pted the de
crease as inevitable and trusted
to the road to restore it as soon
as possible.
Early in 1898, the employes
had hopes that the restoration
was but a matter of a short
time. The first ddi lite stat“-
inerH, however, was that mado
by General Manager MetcaUe,.*!
the meeting of the E iginen-s’
and Firemen’s Bro:herbood held
here last Februny. Mr. ftßt
calfe m.d th -m iit p irt of the
reduction would b« restortd in
J fly and the .es..,:> so >u as pos
sible.
LtfC»» ffIFPENIfXS.;
Wanted To P::.\r -A five oi |
six m <n house in ‘ha Second or i
Third Wyrds. Addr-ss I X5' Z”
care of Hustler-C' inno-rcial, spy
ing description an I price 2-t.
Win ly Smcke ’--That is to
say, tl'.at if you want the best
'cigar on the market and th <ne
that gives the most fragrant
smoke, you should ask your
dealer tor one of tin Warters’
Rome made bran is.
Is Your; c ca p Bad? —If so go
ro 1; i Taylors parlor, tn the
t’nioy building ou Second Avenue,
:nd kt him cure it by applying
Taylor’s celebrett d dandruff ex
orm na!or and hai•’ regenerator.
Fie will cure you i very time.
A Beautiful Day —Yester
day con'd not have been more
perfic' a day had it been made
to order, so far as weather was
concerned. The streets were
thronged from early until late
and never was there a jollier,
happit r throng o f shoppers on
the street* of Rome that) were
seen in the city yr*!- iday.
Fiked Tpk Hand—Last
night at about 6 o’emck some
misclm vous b.>y or re< kless
miser act touched off a cemrnou
cracker on a fireworks table in
front of the S. S. King & Uo.,
.tore with ‘Lo result tI, M rom
■andles, CMck-ra, rocket, a „ d
■ll other tiroworkeo,, lllc
•wentolf.-’ Damage
with no insurance. The fired/
oartment was not calkd out. *
Don’t Forget T 1U <_ Noth
ng affords more pleasure than
he childaen’s Santa Cla U 8 w
s;.
-g'”ive a mamm.juti]
y st( 'Ck of nuts, sane.
" 1 nits ’ Ol '“nges,hQ rfl
caries , llld
works, at rrice(
made to sell them
Lloyd & Harper,
Christmas Eatins —The Gotnez
; case is preparing to do some tall
t. eding auring the ho iday 0 . Mr
torn z secured a big supply
>f the best game that the sports
man’s gun can command, and with
fat oy*ter« and plump turkeys he
le at your service.
If jou expect, to have a swell
. reception or an entertainnientof
any kind, you can get every
thing needful and up to date at
Lloyd’s, and at prices no small
dealer can ass >rd. L-ige fancy
celery, fancy new Nuts, cluster
Raisins, colored Wax Candles
and other nice things.
City Offenders Released
Late yesterday afternoon Mayor
John J S ?ay went to police
headquai tors and had the of
fenders who were behind the
bars released. 1 here were about
a half dozen of them and they
were the merriest gang that ever
marched out of “chokee.” The
officers Inst night arrested quite
a number of offenders and lock
ed them up, and this morning
the mayor will hive to di his
job over again—or keep a num
ber of people away from church.
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SPANKED HIM |N COIKT
An Unusual Sentence to Cura a
Boy of Stealing.
NewYo k, Dec. 23.—Police
Justice Nevin, of Jersvy City,
ordered the mother of 12 year
old albert Truggeit, of 211
Griffith street, Jersey City,to
give Lima wliippiug today in
court with a strap for stealing
several cans of succotash from a
grocer.
The mother obeyed an 1 car
ried out lhe sentence, mimh to
the delight of the usual crowd
of court loaleis.
POPULAR PRICES
bora Spk"Gid Attraction For
Three N ghts.
Eunice Goodrich and L® r
i company of high class actors
•■’nd specialty artists conies to
Rome for 3 nights commencing
Dec. 29, with Saturday matinee.
Novelty is certainly what
miuscment S'( kers are locking
for nowadajs, anJ Manager
Pottle promises an CAteftam
naent as unique and novel as one
could wish fi r. Bright and ie
freshing comedies, excellent sp e ’
cialties, which include the won
derful serpentine, fire, st» tue ’
phantom and other. dan'Cb
given bv Miss Goodrich "it
the snme degree of succese tba
at tended L uie Fuller’s Dibits
in that line.
A perfect moving picture m a
chine, the vivascope, introduc
iug late war vitws and com'‘7
scenes. Therdvia, the
wonder, will introduce her own
character and costume Bon^j lt
'l he bill for Thursday
will be the charming 5 act co
edy •■’l hat Girl. ’ .
'Tiie admission for this
gagonent will be 10,
cents. As customary P
ular pri'fcd attractions the' l’ s
ing performance will be
iiii'ht.” 1 p
Seats can be secured a< y,
Trevitt’s new drugstore "
1 extra charge.