Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1910 — VINCENNES MURDERER NOW BEING TRIED. [ARTICLE]

VINCENNES MURDERER NOW BEING TRIED.

Theatrical Manager Who Murdered Man Because of Jealousy, Making Fight for Life.

A few weeks ago Menlo Moore, a theatrical manager with a pretty wife, became imbued jvith the idea that his Wife was not true to him, but 'was bestowing her favors during his absence from Vincennes, upon another man, one Charlps Edward Gibson, an oil operator. Moore got out his revolver, made sure it was working all right and put a few shots into Gibson’s carcass. They held Gibson’s funeral a day or two later. Moore is now being tried to see whether he did it or not.

The case is of sufficient notoriety to occupy the front pages of Indianapolis newspapers each day. And they have said that it resembles the Harry Thaw case, because Mrs. Moore is pretty and Gibson was a moneyed man with a clever wink and no conscience. Moore was a good provider and his wife took’advantage of this fact and kept herself neatly gowned and made herself just as pretty as modern methods make possible. They had a little son 4 years old. But home did not hold quite all the charms for her that it should, according to the rumors so rife in the papers, and when Gibson winked Mrs. Moore smiled and thereby hangs a little flirtation that ends up in a tragedy and a trial for the life of her disappointed husband. Moore is not the first man that ever used a pistol in a case of this kind. His act is a common one with which the world of popular society is familiar and the scandal is only a repetition of the brutality of that species of honorless men and brainless women who care nothing for the real happiness of themselves and What the future holds in store for them. Gibson knew Menlo Moore and presumed to be 'his friend, but he was less a man than a beast; an enemy and not a friend, and when Moore pulled the trigger of his pistol, he doubtless thought he was doing what he should do to put a dog out of its misery. We are wondering whether Moore is any more of a murderer than his wife. Had she maintained the queenly domination of her home that her marriage vows presumed, the man whom she had promised to love, honor and obey would not have resorted to murder to rid his heart of the burden which Charles Edward Gibson had hung on it.

It is probable that Mrs. Moore will go into the court and, on behalf of her husband, tell of her relations with Gibson. It would be small amends for the crimes charged to her, and yet it would be the action of a woman possessed of so little responsibility as to commit the sins with which she is charged.

Mrs. Moore appeared in the court room Wednesday and the fcorrespondent says that “diamonds sparkled through waves of fluffy brown hair combed down across the ears.” It is love for diamonds that sets many heads agog. The result of Menlo Moore’s trial will be watched with interest. It will be read by all who like scandal, and the deeper pretty, pin-headed Mrs. Moore goes into her statement of her relations with Gibson, the better the people will like the story.