The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-26
TIE ELK GROVE SHOOTING.
Morrow's Assailant was Thos. English,
His Stepson.
Morrow Thinks English is Insane-A
Complete Statement of
the Affair.

1t has now been positively ascertained
that Thomas BALI, the man who shot and
came near numbering Joseph Morrow,
near Elk Grove, on Wednesday last, is
Morrow's stepson. And his name is not
BALI, as he gave it to the authorities. His
name is Thomas English, or Thomas
Rudolph, as he is sometimes called.
Whether the young man is really ma
MAC, or whether he is only feigning in
sanity in order to escape justice, remains
to be seen. He will probably be exam
ined by one of the Superior Judges and
several physicians to-day.
MORROW MORE TALKATIvE.
A REcoRD-UNIoN reporter went out to
the County Hospital yesterday and had
long talk with Morrow, the wounded
man. Heretofore Morrow has been very
reticent and could not be induced to say
much about the shooting, but yesterday
he was i'll quite communicative state
and talked freely. DIR. White, the resi-
dent physician, kindly showed the re-
porter to the south male ward, where
Morrow was found walking leisurely up
and down the long room, smoking a
cigar, and apparently not in pain. His
head, right shoulder, and right hand We're
literally bandaged, however.
well, t" said Morrow, after the reporter
had explained his mission, Il read the
statement made by Tommy in the Sun
DAY UNION this morning, and l don't
know what to make of him.. He is either
crazy or he is playing it we'll"
Tommy who?" asked the reporter.
why, Tommy English, my son-or,
rather, should say my stepson. You
see, he is the son of my second wife, by
her former husband. His fathers name
was Rudolph, but Tommy never went
l.
were divorced. She then assumed her
maiden name, English, and he adopted
that name, too. When / married his
mother he still continued to go by the
name of Tommy English, and has ever
since. After read the description of the
man who shot me, in the RECORD
UNION last week, knew at once that it
was Tommy; but | didn't care to say so
at the time, because he had escaped and I
was not dangerously injured. L did not
recognize him on the day of the shooting
at all. You see, it had been five years
since | had laid eyes on him. And then,
besides, / did not look at him closely that
day. Five or six men apply for work at
the ranch every day, on an average, and
as | was busy, did not look at him
closely.
ABOUT THE SHOOTING.
when Tommy came up to me looked
up and said, Pleasant day. and then re-
sumed my work, thinking that he would
reply by asking for work. He did not
tutter word though, and the next thing
/ knew he was shooting at me. He fired
two shots, both of which hit me in the
head: | wheeled around and there he
stood coolly pointing his smoking pistol
at me. He looked anything but crazy
man. After looking at me for a moment
he said his name was Sullivan, and told
me he wanted me to acknowledge that L
had once stabbed him in the groin in
I Tod fE1.,AT j
stabbed any man. He then said that he
was wearing a crown-he didn't say any
thing about being king of this country
and | thought he meant by that that he
had the advantage OF me. Well, after he
spoke of the crown [ said to him, who
are your and he replied, Il am your
father [ told him that couldn't be. be-
cause my father had been dead forty
years.
tThen he shot me again, and both of the
bullets took etfect-oue in my shoulder
and one in my right hand. His statement
that ne fired six shots at me is not true
lie fired four, and all of them hit me. /
grabbed an AK then to defend myself, but
my right arm was paraiyzed from the
shot in my shoulder, and he easily
wrenched it from me. He put the ak I'M
der his arm, and then began to rel6ad his
revolver. / ran over to where another
AK lay, and then he took to the brush and
got away"
NEVER HARMED HIM.
When asked what English meant by
saying that he (Morrow) had stabbed him
in a saloon row, Morrow said he did not
know. He had never harmed the boy in
his life, he said and they had always
been the best of friends.
''Then why did he shoot your" asked
the reporter.
NOW, you've got me-" said Morrow.
THAT'S the very thing L want to know.
AS said before, | never gave the boy any
occasion for even disliking me, much less
trying to murder me. Only once in my
life did L ever attempt to chastise him,
and then / didn't succeed, because he ran
away from me. That was thirteen years
ago, when we lived in Chico. He was
quite child then. That was the only
time that can remember of ever having
spoken cross word to him in my life.
When he went away to San Francisco to
work l gave him plenty of money, and
we were the best of friends. When / was
sent to prison for killing Dobbinsbeck, he
came to see me regularly up to the time
that his mother-Iny wife-married again.
Then he stopped coming to see me.'
''Do you think he is crazy?" asked the
reporter.
not act like crazy man the day he
shot me, and in all the years / have
known him he never did anything to in
dictate that his mind was affected. But if
he is not insane and made willful at
tempt to kill me, the only reason l can
think of is that he was afraid l would
bother his mother. He need not have
feared that, however, because l will never
go near her. She married man who
helped to send me to prison. 1 never i'll
treated her when we were living together,
so it could not have been for anything
that has happened in the past that he was
grieved about"
FRATERNAL VISIT.