The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-28
MINISTER OF
The GOSPEL
EXECUTED
In Texas Yesterday for the FIend.
ish Murder OF His
Wife.
PROCLAIMED HIS INNOCENCE
To the Last Moment, Saying He
Was No Worse Than Huns
dreds Of Others.

Morrison was hanged at IL o'clock noon
to-day at Vernon, Texas, for wife MUIR
der. He met his death reslgnedly. on
tho scaffold he said to the select party
OF twenty witnesses permitted ut the
execution:
II am innocent. Circumstances over
which 1 had no control have placed me
in this position. have taken my
trouble in private to my God. l admit
that have acted IRdlscreetly. I have
done no worse, however, than hundreds
Of men who stand high in the religious,
social, business and oiIiclal circles OF
your state have done nothing to
confess. am in the hands of my
Maker. He knows am Innocent"
Morrison's neck was broken and his
death appeared to be painless.
The crime for which Rev. G. R. Nor
rison paid the death penalty was the
poisoning Of his wife, in October. 1887.
The facts show that for deliberate
flendlshness they are almost without
parallel in the annals of criminal jurIs-
prudence. The motive for the poison
ing was in order to rid himself Of a
pretty, amIable, loving wife, in order
to marry lady possessed OF large
means, 100000 OF which was in cash.
Morrison married his deceased wife
about seventeen years ago. AT one time
they lived in California, then In Okla
homa territory. from which place they
moved to Panhandle, Texas, where the
crime was committed. He was born
and raised in Illinois, and went to
school at carbondale. There he be-
came acquainted with Miss Anna Whit
telesey, who subsequently moved with
her parents to Topeka, Kansas. In
August, previous to the poisoning Of
his wife, in October 1897, Morrison met
Miss Whittelesey.hls school days sweet
heart, ascertained her financial ,condl-
zion and made ofEer .as marFiage. ae
pretended that his wife had been dead
eleven years, that he had quit preach
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manner to the parting with loved ones
AhRnf IN O'Clock lnut ulkuE