The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-07


According to the story of the person
who set the police on his trail, Morgan
was seen in the vicinity of the Contin-
entail, early Monday evening. picking
tandelion greens. This person knew
Morgan by name and Morgan being
well known to the police there was
good hopes that he would be taken IL
he was still in these parts.
The fact that his reputation, was
none the best and that he had not
been seen about his usual haunts. ex-
cept on Tuesday morning, when a
party noticed him darting across Oak
ford court, and the further fact that
he answered in q general way the de-
scription of the negro seen fleeing from
the vicinity of the crime, led the police
to believe that probably he was the
man wanted.
WENT TO JESSUP.
After threshing around Oakford and
Raymond courts until midnight, Thurs
day, the police learned that Morgan
had gone up to Jessup, where Marshall
& Smith, two colOred men. keep a
hotel. Lieutenant Davis and PATROL
man Peters went to Jessup on the 1.3o
a. m. Delaware and Hudson train and
inquired for Morgan at the hotel. They
were told that he had gone over the
mountain to Kizer's pond fishing. and
would likely come back by way of Jes-
sup. The officers waited and at 10
o'clock yesterday morning We're re-
warded by seeing their man come
down the road and enter the barroom.
They took him into custody and
brought him to this city on the noon
train. He was locked up in the GEN.
trail police station without being told
what he was arrested for.
When questioned as to his where
abouts Monday night he told of every
place he went. but none of his move
ments took him any where near the
place it was reported he had been seen
picking dandelion greens.
He was around the central part Of
the city all evening, he said. with a
crowd of colored men who We're going
up the valley to act as cooks for the
watchmen at the various mines. He
accompanied them to the Delaware
and Hudson station. when they took
the 9.15 train. and after that was at
a couple of places on Penn avenue un-
til early morning. The police inves-
tigated his story and corrOborated it
in a general way. but not in such a
way as would make it absolutely i'm
possible that he was in Keyser Valley
between 10 and II o'clock p. M, the
time of the murder.
Morgan was told last night the reason
of his arrest. He did not seem TO be
disturbed, but rather relieved. He told
Superintendent Day he could establish
an alibi that would prove without ques-
ton he could not have been in the
neighborhood of the Continental at the
time of the murder.
He will be given Il hearing in police
court this morning. when the party who
claims to have seen him near the Con-
tnental early in the evening. and
Watchman Skellinger, who saw negro
fleeing from the scene of the murder at
II o'clock Monday night, will be on
hand to identify him, if possible.
TOLD THE CAUSE.
Morgan is about 25 years of age and
of good physical proportions. About
four years ago he was arrested for
shooting young son of George Mar
shall, but was acquitted on the ground
that the shooting was accidental.
Morgan was going out hunting, and
while standing at the corner of West
Lackawanna avenue and Seventh
street, was struck by an apple thrown
by the Marshall boy. He thereupon
shot the boy in the leg. wounding him
SO severely that it was necessary to
amputate the leg. He claimed that he
did not shoot at the boy and the shoot
ing was accidental The case was not
very strenuously pressed, as the par
ties were all friends, and Morgan es-
capped punishment.
Some time later he was caught by
Lieutenant of Police Davis with a bag
of chickens on his back, which, it de-
veoped, he had stolen in Chinchilla.
For this he served Il term in the coun-
ty Jail.
The police. yesterday, secured an
other clue which they deem worthy of
investigation. Its nature can not be
disclosed, at this time, but without
danger of interfering with work of the
suspect is Il white man and not for
eigner.
INQUEST LAST NIGHT.
The coroners jury empanelled to in
quire into the death of Mary Quinn met
in the court house last night and heard
the testimony of several witnesses, but
| were not satisfied because the scarcity
| of evidence, and adjourned to meet
again Monday night, and hear other
witnesses yet to be subpoenaed
John Lukas, one of the two men who
| found the woman moaning in the field
was the first witness sworn. He was
returning home from the central city
after seeing his cousin off for the old
country. Just after getting off the cal
at the end of the Luzerne street line
he passed Patrolmen Mcdonald and
Collins.
He journeyed along the road toward.
the Continental, and when at point
opposite to where the woman lay, heard
means emanating from the field. He
waited few seconds to satisfy him.
| self that there was something wrong
then climbed the fence with his com
panion, Joseph Trudnowski, and &
short distance inside the fence came
across the PROSTATE form of u woman
| lying on the ground, face upward, Will
her arms and legs out stretched ant
her clothing disarranged.
WENT TO QUINN's.
| He Immediately hurried TO JohI
| ouinn's hotel and notified all therein q