Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16

beautiful clump Of shady trees just above
the road from McCann's ferry, where
Drover McCausland alighted from the boat
and met his death at the hands of robbers on
an October morning in 1887. 1t was in this
new house that John Morgan was first made
aware of his children's intention to kill
him, when on returning from West Vir-
ginia on Wednesday night ne found the
doors barricaded against him, and was told
not to enter at peril of his life. There are
| conflicting accounts of the struggle, but
after interviewing number of neighbors !
gather the following, which may be &C
cepted as substantially correct:
Battle Between Father and Son.
When the father attempted to enter the
house the children intercepted him, and q
hand-to-hand fight ensued, in which he was
worsted. Morgan weighed about 24O
pounds and was of stout build, but his son
was physically his equal, while the three
daughters are also large, weighing probably
200 pounds each. In the fight the father
was badly beaten, and the clothes torn off
him. He abandoned any further attempt
to get into the house, and having procured a
pair of overalls and other old clothes at the
barn he slept, scantily clad. on the porch
the rest of the night In the morning he re-
newed his efforts to gain entrance but the
children were still unrelenting. He finally
got inside, where the daughters
encountered him, and they called to the
son, who was upstairs. When he arrived
at the head of the stairs, revolver in hand,
he saw the father and the daughter, Callie,
engaged in a scufie, and watching an OPP
portunity he fired. But the father, having
seen the revolver pointed at him, suddenly
nf nd fho
ceived the bullet, which entered her neck
and passed down to the region of the right
lung
The father now fed to an adjoining room
and shut himself in, while the son, in
furiated by the mishap to his sister, fred
several shots through the door, which caused
the father to jump out of window and start
up the road toward the old Parker house.
Here began the chase to death, which for
downright ferocity has certainly few equals
in the annals of family feuis
From the Morgan residence to the Parker
house is fully 500 yards. During all this
distance the son kept up rattling fire on
the fleeing father, except the brief interval
it required to reload his revolver Two of
the shots made flesh wounds in the left leg,
but just before reaching the old house an.
other shot shattered the right leg near the
knee.
Shot Like a Beast at Bav,
The old man dragged himself into the
Parker house, which he found deserted. the
only person there at the time, Mrs. Annie
Wright, having fed from fright when she
heard the firing. He fastened the door, but
the son tore off two strips of weather
boarding and got into the kitchen. Finding
the fugitive had sought refuge upstairs and
locked the door, the young man climbed
over the roof of an old shed
porch to an upper window,
into which he looked and saw
his crouching victim. From here there
was no further escape, and Morgan, unior,
INDUCED his murderous frenzy until he
again emptied his revolver and knew that
his father lay writhing in death-sgony.
Then he climbed down and as he started