Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-08-09
Annthsr Murderer Hung.

Charles, better known as "Blinkey," Nor
gan was banged in the Ohio penitentiary.
The crime for which he gave his life was the
murder OF Detective Hulligan near Ravenna.
As the hour OF execution approached he be-
came somewhat nervous. During the day he
wrote an order turning over his body to DIR.
Clemmer for scientific purposes, but later re-
called the order at the request of Nellie
Lowry, his reputed mistress, who wished the
body. At ITO the warden informed Morgan
that the time had come for him to execute
the sentence, and the party at once started
from the cell into the execution room. Nor
gaa was as cool as he had been all day, and
walked up the scaffold with firm
step. On the scaffold he said
he had no statement to make. Tho
moose was adjusted and at 1:20
the trap fell. Morgan saying just before:
Goodbye, Nellie, referring 10 theGleveland
woman, Nell Lowry. His collar caught the
rope in some way and prevented the moose
nom drawing as il should, and his neck was
not broken. He was strangled. Morgan adj
dressed n letter to the warden of the peniten-
tiary in which, after praising the warden
for his efficient management, he protests that
he Is innoeent of the murder of Detective
Hulligan, and of the theft of the fnrs. He
claims that he was in Philadelphia at the
time the murder occurred. The letter con
cludes ms follows:
have read Of men being murdered for their
money, but am judiciously, or rather injudi-
eiously murdered. In conclusion / repeat
am innocent of any completely with the rob
berry Of the furs or the murder of Detective
Hulligan. ] write this statement to obviate
the necessity OF making any verbal remarks
from the scaffold and Also TO keep reporters
OF the press from butchering up to suit their
own ideas what desire to say. You will I'M
derstand from the foregoing, honored sir
that ] shall have nothing to say save what
i have written here.
On the morning Of Jan. 2S, 1887, the fur
store of Benedict & Rudey, Cleveland, was
entered, and $4,000 worth OF sealskin
sacques and furs taken, and Harry McMunn,
n noted crook, was arrested as tne of the
probable burglars. Requisition papers were
secured, and Capt. Hoehn and Detective HUI
ligan Of Cleveland prepared to take their
man back to the scene of his crime. When the
IL o'clock train for Cleveland reached
RaveBna the two officers were set upon BIZ a
band of thugs, and after Hulligan had been
half murdered and Hoehn so badly injured
that he laid for months lowering
between life and death, the prison
er McMunn, was unshackled from his
captors and hurried away by the despera-
does. Hulligan and Hoehn were taken to
Cleveland that night, and after lingering in
great agony until Feb. Stb, Detective Hulli-
gan died of his injuries. Suspicion pointed
to three men as the probable murderers.
namely: Charles Morgan, Bill Hanley and
Pat Harrington. They were apprehended
after a hard struggle Mt Alpena, Mich, on
June 2sth, 1887. During the struggle with
Morgan, Sheriff Lynch, Of Alpena, was shot
in the leg, and blood poisoning setting in he
died in great agony. Morgan was found
guilty of murder in the first degree and SEN
fenced TO be hanged. The fight to save his
life was very bitter.