The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-13
NEW YORK S POSTMASTER
! SHOT By GREzF MAN
Believed MS Mali Had Been TAM
pered With. y
ASSAILANT ENDS his OWN LIFE.

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Edward M. Morgan Accosted ON the
Street and Shot in the Abdomen
Stenographer Mackey Then Turns
Weapon on Himself and Dies in
the Gutter.
New York Especially Postmaster
Edward M. Morgan was shot Mon
day morning as he was starting from
his home, in West One Hundred and
Forty-sixth Street, for down town
by Eric H. B. Mackey. a stenogra-
pher in law Office, who, four years
ago, escaped from an insane asylum
at Worcester, Mass. where he had
been confined for year after he
had waylaid and shot two men in
Roxbury. Mass, in precisely the same
manner as he waylaid Mr.. Morgan.
Mr.. Morgan probably will owe his
life to the fact that just as the crazy
man jumped in front of him his
little daughter, Dorothy, with whom
he was walking, pulled him until
he swung partly around and received
the bullet from the side instead of
directly in front
The bullet entered the left side
of the abdomen and passed out the
right side, the course taken being
about eight inches long. An opera
ton performed by DR.. Titus Bull,
the family physician, assisted by DR..
John Erdman, showed that the bull
let had just grazed the smaller intes-
tine In it's course, but there was
no perforation. 1t was described by
the doctors later as a flesh wound.
Mr.. Morgan is in splendid physical
condition, and the doctors declare
that there was no reason to look for
any dangerous complications inter-
fering with his recovery.
Assailant Dies In Gutter.
Immediately after shooting the
postmaster Mackey fired three shots
at himself. One went wild, the sec
ond hit him in the breast and the
third went into his brain. He fell
in the gutter, was picked up and his
face covered by newspaper, and
lay on the sidewalk in view of the
folk hurrying for the subway for
over an hour, when his body was
finally taken to the police station,
from whence it was later removed
to the morgue.
For four years, ever since he got
away from the Worcester Asylum
by crawling through shaft, Mack
ey had been working as a steno-
grapher in the law offices of Hunt,
Hill & Belts at 165 Broadway. Al
though continually nursing a griev-.
ance and having good many queer
ideas, he was quiet and inoffensive
and his employers saw nothing to
Indicate that he was insane, though
it appears that they had been noti-
fed that he had been In an asylum
and had taken French leave of 1t.
That he picked out Mr.. Morgan
above all others as the person who
had injured him and upon whom he
must be revenged was due to the
simple operation of one of the rules
of the Postoffice Department, with
which Mr.. Morgan personally had
nothing to do. That rule requires
that when registered mail is sent
to a person doing business under
trade name that person must pro-
duce a copy of the certificate filed
WILL Inc OOuA(J CAOA n 6AO WAA6 LIS
right to that trade name.
Mackey had registered both as
Harold Saxon and as Joshua Daniel
son & Co., running dancing acad-
envy for short time under the first
name and intending to do a real
estate brokerage business under the
latter name. He had hired box
for the mail he received land he
couldn't see why, owning such box,
he should have to go through the
formalities of showing his right to
the trade name. The legitimacy of
his business was not involved.
He had been nagging the postoffice
with many requests and petty COM
plants, to all of which he got back
the usual formal letters signed with
the postmaster's name, though, of
course, written by subordinates. All
this had it's effect on a mind that
had been deranged apparently for
years and subject to decisions of
persecution.