Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-24
MURDER
The Crime To Be Charged Up To
Morgan McSWeeney.
William E. Mason Dies From the Three
Knife ThruStS
inflicted Upon Him Friday Night.-All Eff
forts of the Police to Locate the
Murderer Are so Far
Unavailing.

| Ex-Deputy United States Marshal
William E. Mason, who was stabbed
by Morgan McSweeney Friday night,
died of his wounds a few minutes be-
fore five o'clock Saturday evening.
He sank gradually and succumbed to
internal hemorrhage. Either one of
the three terrible wounds was sufficient
to kill man and their depth showed
that they were struck with the full
power of the strong man behind the
deadly knife. When McSweeney's ply
steal superiority over Mason is consid
cred the deed seems all the more co "
ardly. 1t was the work of butcher
bent on murder and he was only too
successful in it's accomplishment. The
dead man may have made enemies by
his excess of zeal in running down per-
sons whom he believed guilty of violat
ing the law, but he did not deserve
butchery, least of all at the hands of
Morgan McSweeney.
The police have thus far been unable
to gather the slightest trace of Nc
Sweeney. tits quite generally believed
that he is still in hiding in the city and
is being shielded by friends. Further
than the sending out of descriptions of
him by Marshal Dye, we have learned
of no especial effort being made to ap-
prehend him. No systematic search of
the locality of the crime or other places
where McSweeney might be hidden
has been made, and it seems that un-
less there is exceedingly quick and vig-
orous action by the police McSweeney
will in all probability make good his
Marshal Dye was at Parkersburg
and interviewed McSweeney's
sister, who stated that the murderer
had been at her home few days prev
ously, and at that time declared his
Intention of cutting Mason and other
enemies. She denied, however, any
knowledge of his present wherea bouts. |
t is also reported that McSweeney
old certain parties in Marietta that he |
Intended to do violence to Mason. Cor
'ner Willis held an inquest Saturday
md took considerable testimony that
nay cause some developments in few
lays.
The facts of the killing were substan-
tally as printed in Saturdays Leader,
he only work left for the authorities
icing the discovery of McSweeney's
liding- place.
Mr.. William Mason, father of the
murdered man, arrived Sunday from
Bedford County, Pa, and took charge
# the remains. arranging to have the
uneral on the West Side at the Gilman
venue M. E. Church at two o'clock
ionday afternoon. Rev. Mr.. Dick will
onduct the services.
To the Leader the elder Mason relat-
d the story of his sons life and career,
which is sensational in the extreme and
ull of trouble. Recently it had been
eported that the murdered man was a
gamist, and James Gallagher, father
f his second wife, was preparing to
ring suit to dispossess Mason OF the
title property to which he fell heir
7hen Mollie Gallagher died. 1t is true
hat Mason's first wife now lives in
and also true that he
aarried Miss Gallagher without having
cen divorced, but according to his
ather there are many mitigating cir
The murdered man was forty-fourI
ears of age. Twenty-seveny years ago,
'hen he was only seventeen. he was
larried at Bedford, Pa, to Layinia