The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1889-12-11

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DIR. Smiley saw that Morgan was
past medical aid, however, and went
to assist DR.. King. After consulta-
ton a b eroic operation was decided
upon and Willis was placed under
the knife. It was discovered that
none of the 1ntestines had beeu
punctured, but that he was suffering
from internal hemorrhage. He sur
vived the operation only a short
time and died at 4 o'clock.
The funeral of J. H. Morgan took
place from the Meth odist church at
2 o'clock Thursday. Long before
the hour appointed the church WAS
full and the street was crowded to
the center. The stores had all been
closed by the mayors proclamation.
Short addresses were delivered by
the clergy of our city. The fu-
neral service over the remains of
John P. Willis were conducted from
the family residence on East Dakota
street, and was attended by alarge
number of friends of the family.
The PROFESSIONS which followed both
to the last resting place were very
large.
J. P. Willis was born in Culpeper
county, Va, in 1851; from there, his
parents moved to Orange county,
and from there to Saline county,
Mo-, before the war. At The begin
ming of the war, they moved to Nc
Donald county, Ill, and after the
war Mr.. Willis came to Bates coun
ty, where he has since resided. He
moved to farm two miles from this
city. He married his present wife,
Miss Eliza MILESTONE. in 1874. He
was a farmer, then went into the
mercantile business, saloon, and was
appointed Deputy U. S Marshal by
Col. Gates not long after the latter's
appointment, and by whom is said
that Willis was one of his best of
ficers. He was a generous, genial,
whole-souled fellow with the courage
of his convictions when sober, but
when drinking he was quarrelsome
overbearing and was ever ready for
trouble at the least provocation.
j. H. Morgan was born at Sabas-
tapol, Ind, Aug. 4. 1888. He was
married January Goth 1880. Little
is known of Mr.. Morgan's history
before he came to Butler eleven or
twelve years ago. Since his resi-
dence among us he has lived an hon
orable upright life. He was a strong
but has held the office
of City Marshal in Butler for eight
or nine years, though the democrats
have majority in the town. It is
admitted by his worst enemies that
he made agood officer, tended strict |
ly to his own business at all times,
was never dissipated or quarrlesome, |
He was member of the Nj. E. church |
since 1884. He leaves wife and |
three children to mourn his untime
ly taking off.
Col. Gates, while in our city We'd
nesday informed one of our
prominent citizens that he was sur
prised and dumfounded when he
heard of the killing; that Willis had
not been intrusted with any of his
business for over month, but had
been working for a building and
loan company, and he did not know
OF the Morgan warrant.
District Attorney Neal was in the |
city the last of the week and said |
that S P. Francisco did not sign the
affidavit and advised against letting
Willis have the warrant.
Testimony taken in the inquest
held upon J. H. Morgan, deceased,
Dec. 5th, 1889:
MRS. J. II. MORGAN.
Mrs. Sallie A. Morgan being sworn
testified as follows: Mr. Morgan was
my husband, I was in the dining
room just ready for bed. My hus-
band was in bed asleep, across the
hall from me. Just as l opened the
door to go to my bedroom I heard
on the porch. I called
my husband and told him some one
was rapping. He rose, sat up in bed
and then said, swhat's wantede" He
had gone to the door, not the front
one. but the door of the bedroom.
There was no reply. He stepped
back to the bed, got his revolver in
lis right hand, went through the
oarlor to the door opening onto the
porch. He opened the door and the
nen said something, I did not un-
lerstand what. and he said, ''hold
IN. wait minute and tried to shut
he door. There were two and they
pushed it open. Then I thought
hey ierked him onto the porch, and -,
heard shots. It seemed two at
aa Ssma time Then they rushed :,