Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, November 01, 1899, Image 4
PREACHER HANfiED
AT VERNON TEXAS.
POISONED HIS YOUNG WIFE
SO AS TO MARRY AN HEIRESS.
The Rev. G. E. Morrison, in tlio
Face of Overwhelming Evidence
ot his Guilt, Declares his Innocence
of Wile Murder ami Meets
Death Resignedly?The Story
ot his Monstrous Crime.
Dallas, Tex is, Oct. 27.?The
Rev. (5. 10. Morrison was hanged
at 12 o'clock to day at Vernon,
Texas, lor wile murder, lie met 1
his death resignedly. On the
scaffold lie said to the select parlv |
ot twenty witnesses permitted at j
the execution :
"1 am innocent, Circumstances,
over which I have no control,
have placed me in this position.
I have taken my trouble in private
to mv God. I admit that I
have acted indiscreetly. I have
done no worse, however, than
hundreds of men who stand high
in the religious, social, business
and official circles of your State.
I have nothing to confess. I am
in the hands of my Maker. lie
knows I am innocent."
Morrison's neck was broken and
his death appeared to be pain
less.
The crime for which the Rev.
G. E. Morrison paid the death
penalty was the poisoning of his
wife in October. 1S97. The mo
tive for the crime was to rid himself
of a pretty, amiable, loving
wife in order to marry a lady
possessed of means, one hundred
thousand dollars of which was in
cash.
Morrison married I is deceased !
wife about 17 years o. At one
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time they lived in Cu.i.ornia, then (
in Oklahoma Territory, from
which place they moved to I'an j
Handle, Texas, where the crime
was committed. lie was born;
and raised in Illinois, and went !
to school at Oarbondale. There
ho became :ic'|iininfed with Miss j
Annie Whittlesey, who subse
quontly moved with iter parents!
to Topekn, Kansas. I r; August
previous to the poisoning of his!
wife in October, 1 SOT. Morrison)
met .Miss Whittlesey, his school j
da\ s swcel iioart, ascertained Ir
financial condition and made olVei
of marriage. Ho pretended than
lii1- wife had been dead eleven
j< . rs; th;.; he had qui i preaching;
h:::l hfCl. ?<;iCtV.-> i U1 lv enpaued it)
tli;* rattle htisi- for eight years
am! owned ? rsne!) tear Iligidn3,!
If."1:'. On his vi'irn t.i '1 ex a -1
he :n ^an a corn S|oiidetx ;v;?h ;
Miss Whitth-PfV. urging 1 >is pro
position ot marriage, plating that j
ho had for r number of year* i>. |
tended to come to her wlit n lie
could do no honorably. and he he
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which had caused her great swf
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would break cut on her head and
face, arid the beat doctors could
give no help; hut her cure is com
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lieved he could now see the time
This statement was made one
month before the death of bif
wife.
He procured strychnine for the
ostensible purpose of poisoning
animals which, he said, were
catching his chickens. On the day
previous he had procured a box
of quinine with empty capsules
On Friday night before her deat
Mrs. Morrison went to the Swiss
Bell Kingers, leaving Morrison at
home, who said he had to prepare
his Sunday sermon. I'he next
morning he took the strychnine
back to the druggist, telling him
that ho was afraid to use it for
fear he would poison bis neighbors'
chickens. The package had
been onensd. Sunday night In*
preached and alluded in a pather
ie manner to the parting with
loved ones at death. About Id
o'clock that night lie called upon
bis neighbors for assistance, an
nouncing the serious illness of bis
wife. She was found in parox
vsms and anaemn Ho Holnroil
sending for a doctor, who arrived
after his wife's death. In the
meantime he had kept up his cor
respondence with Miss Whittle
sey, writing her a letter two days
before the death of his wife and
the day after her burial, assert
ing his love in the most lavish
terms.
In a letter he announced the
death of Ids brother's wife ami
notified her of his early visit tr
Topeka.
On his return from Topeka hf
was arrested, held a few days
was released on bond and tied
About three months thereafter lit
was arrested in San Franeisco, re
turned to iexts, tried, witn JVlisi
Whittlesey as the main prosecu
ting witness, and given the deatl
penalty.
EXKCUTION IN AUSTIN.
Austin, Texas, Oct. 27.?Sam'l
W atrous. one of the murderers ol
(i. W. Kngberg and his wife, wr;
hanged in the j til yard here to
day. Before dying Watrous sun
he was going to Heaven. Jamet
Davidson, convicted of the samt
crime, win of nange.i .Nov. L'l.
SWKKTIIKAKT MI'KDKKKK 11A N? I'. I >.
St. Lottie, Oct. 'J7.? A special fr
t!;l'oif Dispatch front l>al!??
Tex a:-, says: Walt r Ford, win
murdered I:i^ sweoiho t 11, Lucimhi
Monro, at Waco. Texas, in dune
1 .v.)s, watt hanged in that city to
lay. il? died without faltering
su.io io sfioo a vi:ai:.
Wo want reliable and euergetu
nun and women in each State t<
trawl and appoint agents; salary
to $1-0(1 a year and oxpt n
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no exp.Tionco required, wo in
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wanVd also. Send stamp !\>r fill
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A Minnesota paper report" that tin
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uoou ?i:i-? year to ? inca^o, SI. Can
nii(I ?)! li??r iiorl hern < 51 ies, '-lias hci-i
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such freight "will he a burden" to tin
railroad iin-n of its district. It h
curious that this kind of meat ha;
become so popular in the north v.hih
it i< generally regarded with nversiot
throughout the south. Other kindso
atpiatic game are very rarely ween bj
the people of large parts of Soutl
Carolina. They might cultivate i
taste ftir the "jump tlsli" as a las
resort.
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