The daily gazette., 1882-07-22
REpRINrsb FnoM YEsrEROAY
VILLAINS ACT.

How Drunken Rough Deliberately Kills
n Married Woman without Apparent
Provocation.
Especial dispatch to the Gazette
TOWNSEND, July 2l.-Mrris station, one
mile from Goltz station, where Mrs. turner
was murdered yesterday, is an abandoned
depot on the Queen Annies " Kent railway
seven miles from Townsend In the midst ol
Blaekbird Forest. The nelghborhood is the
scene Of many crimes, among them Deing
the Casden murder at the cold well, ana int
shooting ofJim Jones by Dodson.
Tic details of Yesterdays Tragedy are
about us follows William Turner Keeps
grocery store, and his wife, who was hne,
| well-fOrmed woman attended u Tor hlm
| Yesterday, Turner was away, ana the snoot-
| ing took place between aud O'Clock aS
his wife was waiting upon customer; IN
the forenoon, as Mrs. Turner was asleep,
Joe Morris, a drunken fellow aud desperate
character, came in the store ana stole PAIR
| Of spectacles and pair of scissors. Turner's
daughter Ida, aged IL, saw him commit the
theft, and awoke her mother, who sent the
J child TO Morris house, 800 yards distant, Tor
| the articles. Morris said he would slap her
! over the mouth and Ida returned nome,
Mrs. Turner then went herself and Morris
denied that he had taken the things
Afterwards Morris came to the store with
double-barrelled shotgun. lie went lhto
the house where the woman sat sewing ana
tried to get behmdMrs. Turner 10 shoot her,
his gun was cooked. Ida ran in and stopped
him and Mrs. Turner tried to get her glasses
from him. Morris then let go of the gun
with one hand and Ida snatched the glasses
and hid them in the garden.
When she returned her mother told her
to take the gun. This she did, but before
giving It up took the caps of and put water
In the pipples. Morris took the gun and
went Off He fired both loads out hnd re-
turned about $40 O'Clock with II recharged.
He had been drinking heavily. He entered
the store where Mrs. Turner was waiting on
John Rittenhouse, quack doctor. She
was wrapping up a pound of coffee. Morris
spoke, " saying. How's world using you
| guess III go over to old Hannah Hend-
sons" meaning dissoute woman who
lives near. fI
just then Rittenhouse turned his head
away and Morris quickly fired at Mrs
Turner The whole charge struck her "
the left breast. She fell dead In her owl
blood. The wound is terrible one-lRrgC
as saucer
Immediately under the large wound is /
small one caused by bullet which was alsC
in the gun. The heart was shot 30 pieces
The murderer backed out Of the house hold
ing his gun ready to fire again. He
shouldered IL and went to his lather's. ii,
was foll6wedsby the daughter Ida, who haC
gotten her fathers pistol from an up Stair
room, where she was at the time of shooting
Ida fired one shot after the murderer, bu
was told by Rittenhouse 10 come back o
Morris would shoot her.
Morris admitted the shooting to his father
but said 1t was accidental He has disap
peared and constable Jacoby of Galena
and an armed posse are securing the wood,
for him. The crime has 10 direct motive
1t is said that improper intimacy existed be
tween Morris and Mrs. Turner and yea
or So ago Turner whipped Morris for some
thing he said about his wife.
Morris has been on intimate terms witt
the family all along of late From threat
he has made it is thought that he intendet
to Kill the husband and daughter Yester
day morning he tried to get the daughter u
drink poisoned whisky. When Mr.. Turne
heard of the shooting at Golu station, ol
his way home, he tainted
The inquest was being held when tn
GAZETTE reporter got there by Squir
BlackistOn of Galcna. Rittenhouse, llenr
Jordan and William Bateman were eN
amincd The last two saw Morris leavn
the house A verdict of deliberate murdC
was rendered.
Ida Turner is highly spoken of. She is i
spasms to day.
Morris gun, with one barrel empty, ha
been found in his fathers house.
WHO THE MURDERER IS.
Morris is drunken fellow and despera
character. Last year he tried to burn
! school house. lie was in jail in Baltimo
for violating the L. $. revenue laws, an
five years ago was indicted for perjury, an
got OIL on flaw in the indictment. lie WI
in Chcstcrtown Jail 60 days for illegal liqu,
selling A year or SO ago he poisonC
Samuel Typhet, forester, against whom |
had Il grudge, and he nearly died. Such
the man who committed the murder
THE CITY MARK ETS.