Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1908 — FOR A FANCIED WRONG. [ARTICLE]

FOR A FANCIED WRONG.

Postmaster Morgan of New York City, Severely Wounded. New York, Nov. io—Edward M. Morgan, postmaster of New York city, was wounded in the abdomen by a bul let fired by H H.B. Mackay, nu eccentric stenographer, who then committed suicide. Morgan is resting well, and unless complications develop he will recover. Morgan probably owes hi* life to the quick wit and bravery of his fourteen-year-old daughter Dorothy, who saw Mackay draw his revolver and strode it with her hand. This de fleeted the bullet, otherwise the postmaster would have been fatally wounded, foi his assailant was at close range and fi.*ed four shots in all. The shooting occurred at One Hundred and Forty-sixth street and only a short distance from Morgan’s home. He was on his way down town at the time. An Investigation of the life and record of Mackay reveals that he was of a morbid nature and was once an inmate of an asylum in Worcester. Mata., where he was sent about six years ago for shooting a fellow em-. ptoye of a factory at Cambridge, this shooting being also for a fancied grievance. Tha his act in sbootihg Mor gan was premeditated is made certain by a tetter' be left, but aside from a fancied grievance against Morgan and the postoffice authorities concerning) the bundling of his mail nothing has ocme to iigid to indicate why be should have songht'to murder the postmaster. His. clothing when searehetLgave up between thirty add forty smokeless cartridges. a heavy slungshot, a knife with a four-inch blade, and claspknife. A quantity of literature on SqimUism, and a slugshot similar to the one found on the body were discovered In hia room. -That Le was rational during work hours, however,, was attested by the Broadway firm of lawyers by whom he was emptoyed. The doctor always prescribes plenty' of exercise to be -ture of good health. That is what Box Ball means.