New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-27
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
MURDERED WITHOUT PROVOCATlON.
An rMPLoYE IN FIsH FACTORY AT PROMISED
lam SHOT AT SAG UARBOR. l.. I.

AN rMPIoYE IN PIsH FACTORY AT PROMISED
LAND SHOT AT SAG HARBOR. l.. l.
The shooting of Miles Morris, at Sag Harbor, l..
L.. on Saturday night. was cowardly and un ,-
Voked Both the mon arrested for the crime, Wllpur
and Higgins were strangers to Morris. Morris -
reported to have been an inofensiye man lie lNea
in the upper part of n house owned by Mrs. helV'
M Spring-st. The lower part of the house was oc
cupied by Mrs Kelly and family, named sick.
man. Morris was employed IN fish factory az
Promised Land He returned to his home on Sat
nrday evening about $3.50 O'Clock. As he was
about to 60 he found Higgins stting on tne stooP
talking with the stickman girls Morris I m,stooS
Higgins for Edward Kelly the SON OF the owner s OF
tie property. and told him that he would better fix
The walks before he came 10 see the girls. Higgins
nv mother" This enraged Morris, who was some
what intoxcated One OF TIE g,Is men ,om MOTIFS
onIy fooling him. The TWO men then shooS hahus'
and Morris inquired the others name. Higgins re-
nlied that it was Dennis Murphy. After some fur
tner talk Morris said to Higgins: If you had not
told me your name wohd have made mincemeat
OF you" The men then clinchcd but higgins soon
got away aud ran up the street.
Morris then went into the house. where he re-
manned few moments: then be came OUT ana went
mp the street. Higgins, after the lapse OF nearly an
rooms occupied by Morris. but the girls would not
allow him to do So. At this time be tola inc s'r1s
some to help him. that he was not
10 be struck by any. man and not eet even
with him. While the girls were talking TO itlegins,
Wilbur came TO the house and told higgins that the
captain wanted him. and the two men went OF to-
gether. This was at / 1870 O'Clock A few moments
after their departure the girls heard a pistol shot,
aud. eoiug ou,, found Morris lying unconscious on
the walk about forty feet from the house. Mrs.
Morris says that, hearing noise on the street, sue
came out OF the house Just moment before the
shooting; she III ggins run and her husband
chase hrn. Wilbur at this time stood within
twenty feet of the house. and was within ten lect OF
him wien he shot her husband She Immediately
ran to Man-st. and informed Deputy Sheriff Harris
and Others Pursuit was at once nade and III less
than half an hour after the shooting wilbur ana
Higgins were arrested in their berths on board the
steamer Sunshine, lying at the foot of Main-st.
The pistol from which the fatal shot was hred
was found on sunday morning in MaIn-st. Ii has
been identified as belonging TO Wilbur. justice
Jennings acting Coroner took charge OF the body
aud Oh SUNDAY afternoon held an inquest, the jury
finding that the deceased man came TO his death
from pistol fired from pistol in the hands OF
hilbert Wilbur. and that John higgins was an ac-
ccssory before the Both the prisoners are en-
p.oye,i on the steamer Sunshine, plying between
SAG Harbor and Hartford, Conn, " lbur as a hre-
man and Higgins as a deckhand. They VIII have
an examination before Justice Jennings on We'd
neslay, prior 10 commitment TO the County jan.
A strong guard is kept over the prisoners, as the
friends of Morris have made threats OF lynchlng
them. The murdered nan was buried yesterday
afternoon.