Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-19

right hand and apparently never
moved after he fell. Judging from
the position in which he was when
found, death was instantaneous and
painless.
Several persons near heard the re-
port and some Of them saw the smoke,
but nothing else was visible and they
paid no attention TO the matter,
thinking that some one was shooting
rats as that is common in that sec
tion of town. The Jolliff girls and
several workmen on the school build
ing heard the shot and saw the
smoke. None of the family it seems
heard it and it was not for some time
afterwards that the body was found.
Then the Girl who STAYS there,
Fanny Kelly started out to feed the
chickens in the back yard and on
turning the corner of the kitchen she
was horror struck when she saw Mr..
Morgan lying there dead
She at once rushed in to the house
and told Mrs Morgan, who went out
and saw her husband before she
could be prevented. The cries of the
two women gave the alarm. DR..
Page A. Gibbons was summoned.
but he could do nothing as death
had already occurred BY the time
the news had gotten over the town
and great crowd began to collect
officers were posted and they kept
the people out of the yard and soon
the better sense of the proprieties of
the people assembled began to assert
itself and they nearly all went away
from the scene.
Squire Hayes was at once notified
and he came up to see after the in
quest and the advisability of hold
ing it at all. The friends of the
family and the family themselves did
not want any held and after con-
sultation with number of lawyers
who said it was not necessary and
with the prosecuting attorney who
stated that he would not ask that
IT be held, it was decided to let the
matter rest as the immediate cause
OF the death was so apparent
The body was then taken in charge
OF by Fred Hennen and prepared for
burial. The funeral will occur on
Wednesday at ten o'clock and will
be under the auspices of Monongalia
Lodge, No. 10, |. O. O. F. Of which
he was member Interment will
be in Oak Grove cemetery.
To all but the family and the fam
lily physician the cause for the suicide
was complete enigma. To them
however it was not great surprise as
they had been guarding against it for
a long time. Outwardly cheerful and
apparently without a care when away
from home, those who were nearest
to him knew of the struggle through
which he was passing. Two years ago
he began to show signs Of kidney
trouble which steadily grew worse.
Within the last three months he was
told that he could not recover from
| the attack.
His friends never knew what a
cross he was carrying and his iron ma
ture concealed from them the trial to
which he was being put. He was a
man who could not bear the thought
of long suffering nor being charge
on any one. His mind was affected
by the disease and he began TO talk
Of ending his life in order to save
long period of suffering with death as
the inevitable conclusion.
This of course alarmed the family
and they noticed that he became sub
jected to ITS OF abstraction and mel
ancholy. They watched him closely
and tried to get him to go away from
business cares and to some other
place where the change and rest
would do him good. He refused to
leave the town or the Office for long
at time but recently he has been ir-
regular In his attendance there. In