Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — FOR KILLING THEIR FATHER. [ARTICLE]

FOR KILLING THEIR FATHER.

Thomas Morgan and HU Three Slitsn Don Convict Attire. Thomas Morgan and his three sisters, Jennie, Rebecca and Caroline, entered the Western Penitentiary at Pittsburg, Wednesday, under long sentences for the murder of their father, John Morgan, near Waynesburg, last August. Morgan was a farmer, worth abont $40,000. fJFhe four children, ranging from fifteen to twenty-three years, lived with him, and were popular in the neighborhood. Morgan installed a strange woman as housekeeper, who was objectionable to the children, and frequent quarrels occurred. During one of these the father was driven from his house to an outbuilding and shot by Thomas, who also, but unintentionally, shot his sister Caroline in the breast, from the effects of which she has now barely recovered.