National Republican., 1880-01-02
II, Morgan for breach of promise Of marriage
and $4,000 damages.

H. Morgan tOr DreaCn oil promise OF marriage
and $4,000 damages.
MISS HORIZONS SUIT.
In her bill Miss Horton AYERS that on April
., 1871 Mt Selma, Alabama, she entered intoa
contract with Mr.. Morgan to marry in October
of that year that she was ready at the time to
fulfill her part of the agecment but Mr. Nor
gan refused and subsequently continued to
refuse to keep the contract. She claims
$4,000 damages. To this suit Mr.. l.. G.. Hine,
as counsel for Mir. Morgan, filed general dc.
nial to the charges madc. The case is now
on the docket aud will before a great while be
reached in Justice Wylic's court.
Mr. MoRaAN's STATEMENT.
a representative of The NATIONAL REPUB-
LtCAN visited Mr.. Morgan at his residence,
corner Of Fourth and q streets northwest, last
evening aud, sending up his card, was immc-
dately admitted. lie found the icct of his
search seated in an arm chair with his loft
arm in sling, chatting with his counsel Mr..
l.. G.. Hnc Upon being asked for his version
Of the affair Mr.. Morgan said that yesterday
afternoon, while coming down q street from
Seventh, with gentleman he saw Miss tlOr-
ton approaching in an opposite direction. Mr..
Morgan remarked, "Ihurc comes the woman
that has caused me 50 much trouble She
passed them without any sign Of recognition,
aud his first iutiuGtion of danger was hearing
a pistol shot followed by q sudden twingo ia
his left shoulder. lie Immediately turned and
ran toward his assailaut aud caught her by
both hands. In her right she held pistol
concealed in o silk handkerchief He held her
until n crowd gathered, when sho was
wrested from him and taken away. lie did
not wait to see what became Of her, but hur-
tigd home and hld his wound dressed by DR..
Rcybuu. Tho ball had lodged in tho fushy
part Of the shoulder, inlictng a painful but
not serious wound. Mr. Morgan said that lie
nud known Miss Horton since the spring Of
d. E.lt Is.4, 81,
officer III military company, aud shC fire.
queutly visited balls given by bis company.
She was only u casual acquaintance, and as for
hcr story that she was an acquaintance Of his
family and her father law partner OF Senator
Morgan, II was untrue. HO first received
letter from her in the fall of 1877. lie had
como to Washington to live and she sent him
u letter in which She threatened to enter suit
against him unloss he kept his promise to
marry her. He did not reply to this letter,
and several others followed. In 1875 she
came to Washington and visited him az his
/ fathers office. She drew pistol on him, hut
he quickly dsarmcd her. She repeated her
threat TO bring suit, and he told her " to 80
ahead aud sue" She brought the suit, and he
has been 10 Alabama three times to stCud trial,
but the plaintiff failed to appear each tim.
Ii 1875 or 'I6 Miss Horton, WHO was then iy-
ing at Dayton, Ala charged a young inau
named Walton with saduCing her, and threat
cucd 10 bring suit against him. Her relatives
/ learned Of the matter and took her away TO
/ South Carolina. The suit against Walton was
! tEcrCupOu dismissed. Her next app larauCc
/ was at Selma, where she met him ,Morgau)
| Her character in Alabama was bankrupt, aud
| the only reason hC could assign for her shoot
! ing at him yesterday was that she wished to
enlist the sympathy of the public. Since she
has been in Washington, Mr. Morgan said, sho
| had attempted to blackmail another pal ty,
! in Washington, by writing letters TO him, the
burden OF which was that she was in serious
trouble in consequences Of her association with
him Mr.. Morgan said that within the past
month he had frequently seen Miss Horton on
the street and about the Capitol. She had
also been noticed hanging around his resi-
deucG on q street. and he had been warned to
look out ior her, as she intended TO do him
harm. lie paid no attention to the matter,
and it eliminated yesterday, when she shot
him
Young Morgan is rather propos5csslng in his
/ appearance dark complcxlOned, aud wears {!
handsome black moustaehc. His age is prob
ably about twenty-five years.
WHAT FRIENDS SAY.
Some personal friends OF Mr. Morgan, in
conversation with q reporter of The NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN,, denied in toto all the charges
brought against him by Miss Horton, saying
that tho families were never intimate or as
socatcd in any way, ana chat her father nevUi
was law partner of Senator Morgan. Ia
speaking of the encounter last spring. when she
shot ut him in his Office, they said that he
then scorncd to take any advantage of her
and allowed her to 90 free. They said also
that friends of Mr. Morgan had offered to fur
uish her with money to pay her expenses il
she would 20 TO Alabama and prosecute tho
cAsCs against him auI that it is now con
sdercd by Mr.. Morgan's friends that she has
become demeutCd, and that her grievances arc
faucics Of the brain.
Senator Morgan isabsunt from the city, hav
ing gone to Alabama to attend the funeral q
r the late Senator Houston.
THE WEAPON
used by Miss Horton was u Harrington & Rich
arlsou's Gye'shoOtcr, the cartridges being o
- calibrG. She had made bag OF a sill
handkerchief and when she fired ycsterda,
, she had the pisto! concealed in this bag,
0 burnt hole in it attos,ing this fact. Boil
! pistol and bag arc in the possession of the pc
D lice of tha Seventh precinct.
Last evening Miss Horton was given com
Portable quarters at tho Fifth precinct station
5 an exception being made in her case, rs sh
, was not locked up in cell. Before retiring
} il was asCertained that she had sOnlG morphin
! in her pocket. Lieutenant Kelly asked he
for It, and she produced Il vial containing thre
7 grains. She stated that she Intended to XII
Morgan and then take her own life.
.. IT is impossible to take Lpdille's He1dach
: Specific without getting almost instant relic