The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-10
4 FEARFUL CRIME
MRS. EDWARD GREEN ND HER
SON AND DAUGHTER

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Murdered With a Club by a
Young Man Named John Nor
gan, an Adopted The
Motive RoDbery-The Young
FIend Caught and Confessed
the Crime Prospects ofLynch-
ing.
Special to Register.
RAyENswooD, Nov. 4, 1897
a most horrible murder occurred
in this county ON Tuesday might
November End.
Eight miles from Ripley. on
Grass Lick, in an isolated place,
resides Mrs. Edward Green, Wild
ow, formerly Mrs. Francis Post,
mother of President Pfost, of the
Bank of Ripley, and also of DR..
James Post, of Spencer, and with
her resided two grown daughters
by her first husband, aged respec-
lively twenty-six and twenty-eight
years, and also a son, James. by
her first husband. aged twenty one
years. With the family until re-
Gently resided John Morgan, who
the family adopted when quite
young, but who recently sought
employment within two miles of
the Green homestead and frequent
ly called at the house.
Yesterday the widow Green dis
posed of horse for which she re-
ceived $56, and Morgan heard of
the transaction. When he passed
the Green homestead in the after
noon, he inquired if the horse had
been sold. and if they had received
the money for it, and was told by
young Green that they had, and
Morgan went on his way.
The family retired as usual and
were awakened about midnigt by
an alarm at the door, and Mrs.
Green, who is over seventy years
of age. answered the call and de-
handed the name of the caller,
and was told that it was Morgan.
She thereupon opened the door,
when she was struck on the head
with club and felled to the floor,
her assassin raining blow after
blow upon her PROSTATE form.
Her two daughters and son rushed
to her assistance, and the eldest
daughter met a similar fate. The
son endeavored to escape, and had
gotten some distance from the
house, near corn crib, where he
was overtaken by Morgan and
Drained. Before leaving the house
the murderer thought he had com-
pleted his work, as he had struck
the youngest girl blow over the
head which stunned her, but she
recovered before his return and
fed to some bushes near by and
remained there until next morning,
when she gave the alarm.
A posse of neighbors soon ar
rived and the young woman related
her story. and told who had COM
mitted the deed. Morgan was
soon tracked to dense underbrush
near the scene of the crime, and
was overpowered and hound hand
and foot and taken to the Ripley
Jail. He had the money on his
person and his hands and clothing
were covered with blood.
Tho crime was the most fendish
one ever committed in jackson
county, and is the second murder
in fifteen years. The victims of
the murder were beaten in such a
manner as to be unrecognizable,
and blood and brains were scatter
ed all over the room. Hundreds
of people gathered in the town
during the day, and the feeling
against Morgan is very bitter. He
confessed the crime and said his
only motive was robbery. The
murderer is intelligent looking and
is about twenty-five years of age.
Threats of lynching are heard on
every side.
Don't Keep a Ferrer.
We hear every day about persons
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