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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-01-17
FINE FARM FOR SALE,

a FINE Farm % lea Acres, mots or
IN less, situated about miles % Choppers
Station, tAls county, On due public Highway,
Improved BY comfortable Frame Heass and
onleulldlags, 100 acres ander cultivation
and In hne condition, most Of u hAving heea
lined twice, most % the remaining % acres
covered by good timber.
Apply 10 BowIEF, WATERS,
laly fila Atserney, Rockville, Nd,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-01-17

FOR @ALsDs ...,.,
u highly Improved land, with small house,
good orchard, nrst-clan well Of water, l mile
IRON Rockville.
MARTIN RR0ADNICK,
aev asvss Reeesille. Nj,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-09
PASTOR FLAYS
CHURCHES THAT
IGNORE THE POOR

~. Edward Judson, pastor Of the
hudson Memorial Baptist Church
Washington Square South, who was in
vited 10 make the chief address before
the Baptist ministers conference to-
day at Madison avenue and Tairtyfirst
st!eet severely criticised the Protestant
churches that have deserted tho poor in
the crowded districts in lower Manhat-
tau. Some OF the churches, he said
winch Lad fed from the congested pop
ulatIon to fashionable uptown centres
were used only once week, and he
added:
AN the rest OF the time these
churches are attended by mice, silence
and gloom" Continuing. DR. Judson,
who was enthusiastically appIauded,
said in part:
The vast neglected population Of
lower New York. particularly that sec
ton of the city above City Hall TO
Houston street and to the two rivers,
provides a rich field for the const!tu-
tional church. Money is sent to the
heather beyond the seas. while the Vi
tai mass of people coming 10 our shores
are ignored Men and money are sent
to foreign lands for missionary work.
but when the foreigner comes 10 these
shores we shun him. This policy is
fatal to Christianity in TINS city The
Church should cling TO old fields. no
matter how d!scoul aging, hopless and
reuIlsive the conditions should become
The masses downtown need the
'.They build fine churches in rich dis
;r;cts If / mad my way ! would build
me most beautiful churches in the
and me JOY and happiness denied them
in the squalor Of their crowded home,
Don't. however, in appealing 10 the
masses make the mistake OF telling
them that they need the church Make
them believe that the church needs
them. The worktngmen will not be pat
ronized"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-09
COLTS THE THING
FOR EVERYBODY,
TAFT DECLARES
PreSident-Elect Says He Is
Going to Do All He Can
to Further the Game.

HOT SPRINGS Va, Nov. 81 am
going to do my part to make golf one
of the most popular outdoor exercises"
asserted President-elect Taft, as he
made @-yard drive in beginning
game with Governor Ebcn Draper,
VI Massachusetts. here to-day.
Playing yolc is a serious work for NJ.
Taft, as he has explained
a man of my build requires exercise
in the open air." he said, and exercise
to be beneficial must be entertaining, of
course. l can ride. but one cannot main
tain keen interest in riding a horse In
golf there is Just enough skill required
to get up a keen interest in the game,
and this takes up your thoughts while
you are getting a five or six mile walk"
Judge Taft maintains that golf is not
"a rich mans game. In Scotland, he
said, it is played generally by the pop
uiace, and in this country its devotees
are becoming more numerous each year.
1t was golf, MIR. Taft believes thai
put him in the splendid physical condi-
ton he was in when he took up the
strenuous WV" Va '''' N'''''P '4Si ana
enabled him to get through il without
a breakdown. He will play the game
this winter as much as possible to get
in shape for his duties at the White
House next spring.
The STATE of Georgia came to the
front to-day with eagorncss t. have
Judge Taft as a guest this winter Mr..
Houston r. harper, of Atlanta. arrived
with many credentials and full details
OF Georsias resorts. He also brought a
letter from Henry 5. Jackson, OF At
IL uta, offering Mr. Taft his city or
country home. with full facilities fo.-
outdoor exercises. MI Harper Viii also
present the claims OF Augusta. as we'll
as other parts of the State. No other
visitors were here to-day.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-09
Ma CkA Y FIGURED
IN TWO SHOOTING
AFFRA Us BEFORE.

BOSTON, Nov. 9.-Inquiry at the
offices OF the Boston Woven Hose Com
pany to-day developed the information
tina; while in the employ of that cor
poration Mackay figured in two shooting
affairs.
The frs, time, 1t is said, the shooting
occurred IN the boarding house where
Mackay lived, but no action was taken
against him. In 1903 Mackay attempt ed
To discipline some boys who md snow
balled him passing laund man took
the boys part, thus mourning Mackay's
enmity.
Mackay learned that the laundryman
lived in RoXbury. and soon afterward
went there, 1t Is said waylaid the
laundryman, and shot hiw The wound
was not dangerous. A4ackay was ar
rested on charge of assault with in
tent TO kin, but when experts declared
that he was insane he was committed TO
the Worcester Hospital.
When MaCkays father was informed
of what had happened IN New York to-
day he was greatly shocked, but did
not appear TO be surprised. He refused
absolutely to make any statement and
would not discuss his sons career in
any way.
three years OF age. He came to Cam
bridge from Australia in 1876, and al
though at that time lie was sixty years
of age he took a special course OF
) udy AT Harvard College.
Besides his father the only relative
MaCkay is known to have in this coun-
try is a sister, Anna Mackay. who came
who for the past few months has been a
student at the training school for nurses
in connection with the Anna jacques
Hospital AT NewhUrynort, Mass,
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abdomen from left to right just missing
a large artery
ut also missed the walls Of the stom-
acl, Mr. Morgan is nov resting easily
and unless blood poison or undue CONF
plicatluns set in there is every chance
that he viii recover"
The bulletin was gwen out by Supt.
koderick Gcoghegan, of Post-Otiice sta
ton q, uptown. and signed by Drs. Bull
and Erdman
The two physicians consented that an
Evening World reporter should see MIR
Morgan. The big rawboned rostmas-
bed with his body tightly baudaged. lie
was entirely conscious
II am suffering a good deal of pain,
he said. hut | feel uO alarm about my.
self. d. not believe that | am dan
seruusly hurt"
Then lie asked anxiously il Dorothy
had escaped injury. He wanted to see
her, To I've certain that she had not been
injured, hut as tho little girl had become
hNsteriCal, she was not brought to him.
Two Doctors Operate.
a few minutes later Drs. Bull and
Erdman operated. They put the Post
master under the influence of ether and
explored the wound. II was eight inches
in length. and had, uf course, cut the
abdominal walls both at the point of
entrance and exit, but there was no in
festival perforatiOn. one of the larger
intestines was grazed. but not seriously
ruptured. There had been severe loss of
blood
DR.. Weston. the Coroners physician.
angrily criticised the police for not at
once taking steps TO identify the dead
assassin.
1T seems Incredible" he said, that
man who has sufficient intelligence to
pass a civil service examination has not
enough sense to look through a murder
er's pockets instead OF leaving him ly-
ing In the street unidentified for half an
hour"
At the staton-house where he made
second and more complete search of
Mackay's garments. he was rewarded by
finding more papers tucked in an inside
pocket Of the waistcoat. There was
Coggeswell, No. 229 West one Hundred
and Sixteenth street" from the New
York Life Insurance Company. stating
that premium of SIS was due Nov. II
on Mackay's policy
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truly certified copy OF my right to do
business under said name.
The ,ground the postmaster took
seems that must file such certified
had to pay a fee to the New York
County clerk 10 obtain the letter. l re-
fused to do unless the post-ottice paid
the fee.
letters can be given without fling the
certificates, upon proper proof which
furnished, bu. the postmaster arbitrarily
refused TO give me the letter, and
man who has antagonized me, / select
him as my victim. now that | have de-
cded to Kill myself
My act is nearly the last protest of
a poor man against the custom of never
enforcing the laws against prominent
or wealthy people in ordinary criminal
affairs, where a poor man would go to
Jail at once unless he had political in
huence.
II consulted lawyer, member of
practicing concern mot clerk) and he
told me that on account of the in
fuence of the Post Office it would he
impossible TO do ANYTHING, even though
he was wrong, and | was given to un-
derstand that something might happen
to me if ! persisted. which | understand
to mean that l would be quietly declared
insane and put out of the way Cas has
happened to many perfectly sane peo-
pie before mel on some trumped up
"a 5,r M, ,ooli,, for tbe s,.,,,,,,.,,,. =.
the Minis nor ant iefsriips az, ,,'E 20 VI
merely expIainns il e TIE & H my ', ~
whom want Vas NOT nDe,,har of ~ "
firm employing me This statement '' in
my own hanJVritins is The only q, q To-
n ne emit am making. and Rey ei not ' writ-
ten ANYTHING ON the tynewri,er in re-
gards IN mis- ,feir ~
,SignedD ERIC II r NACKay"
A., -
mo FRAUD Nroer on fiie.
Assistant Postmaster Murphy. who
took charge of die Post-Officc following
the receipt OF The news Of the shooting
Of MI Morgan, caused a search to he
made for any record That a stop or
fraud order had been established on
Mackay's mail He said
IF Such an 9ra , w, was issued Postmas-
Mackay got the wrong man. All such
orders emanate from Washington on re-
ports made by lie Iost-Ofice Inspectors
TIE Postmaster does not institute such
proceedings. | h,lieve that there was
some correspondence between the Post
master and Mackay, ard ! am having
search made for IT
Mackay was near Mr. Morgan's home
as early as $50 TINS morning, so the
police learned from Gustave Thomas,
grocer and baker with store AT No.
1922 Amsterdam avenue. who told them
that the man had come In that hour
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.-Why. it's Frank McCue, who works
for the Washington Heights Detective
Bureau, over here on Amsterdam ave-
pue" said one man, as he bent to look
al the corpse.
you're right-thats McCue," chimed
In some of the others.
This supposed identification stood until
n search of the clothing Of the dead man
showed who he really was Even then
some of the merchants of the vicinity
still thought It might be McCue' so close
was the resemblance between Mackay
and the detective.
Mr.. Morgan revived little almost as
soon as he reached his home, DIR. Titus
Bull, who lives in the same block. was
the first physician TO reach him.
81 Never Saw Him Before"
at never saw the man before were
the Postmaster's first conscious words.
"why did he want to harm me-"
Then from weakness ana shock he
collapsed again. DR.. Titus sent for Or.
John Erdman. of the Post Graduate
Hospital, specialist in gunshot
wounds, whose home Is also in the
vicinity. and together the two sur
seems stripped the Postmaster anf
made an examination. They decided
that the bullet had probably not
severed the larger intestines, but they
did not attempt then to trace its
course Particles Of clothing had been
carried into the wound, and this caused
fear at first of infection by the dye
stuffs.
Meanwhile Lewis, the policeman had
got the West one Hundred and Fifty
second street station on the telephone
and the reserves came Reinforced by
patrolmen, who gathered from half a
dozen posts, these policemen took
charge of the situation and cleared the
streets, Up 10 this time nobody had
touched the body OF the dead assassin,
In about twenty minutes Coroner's
Physician Albert Weston who lives
around the corner, reached the Place.
by that time doubt regarding the
McCue Identification had been started
This doubt was based on The fact
which had Just become known, that
the wounded Postmaster said ne aid
not know the man who shot him and al
he knew McCue. who rs active IN Re
publican politics on tire upper west eide
OF Harlem. very Well those who hat
been 40 certain In their earlier ideutgh
cation were now beginning 90 wBye-.
An Arsenal Of Deadly Weapons,
Or. Weston learning this a. once 10
san u search OF TIE msdmau's packets
They proved 90 he an arsenal M deaall
weapons He had TWO coat p1ckcf sul
OF 2-eAlihre shells. I'm a Nip poatet wa.
shiny new pearl handled laggrr. Nitl
. BLADE fully siG Inches lHr. lu i
49, ,IuL. 4 ,nLn "a ~ ~.
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Story of an Eyewitness.

Richard Burton. the civil engineer who
helped carry the wounded Postmaster
Indoors, was perhaps the first of the
eye Witnesses 10 give a circumstant!al
account Of the shooting as he saw II.
To an Evening World reporter Mr. Bur
ton said:
Il was hustling for the subway with
my head down when. just as l start ed
across One Hundred and Forty-sixth
street al broadway ! heard one shot,
ana Then almos, Instantly two more
WING around and saw AIR Morgan,
Engm l Tecognlzed even in that excited
glance, slipping TO the sidewalk. He
acted JUST as man might VINO had sud
denly been seized with acute cramps
"A pretty little girl was standing a
Few teei away crying, ana very tall
musiache Vas backing away from Mr..
Morgan TINS man seemed 10 stagger as
he retreated. TWO or three men who
were Close s,9'eI IN man HIM. to ne fT9 s5 5g
around toward me, and then saw for
the hrst time that he had a pistol IN his
hand There was lot II smoke all
~ ran to head MIN off, He came right
gun close 10 his hip, and waving u os X
s snd f fogda S,si ~ Ten he sweryed
stey he raised the g-1 10 hts head Ared
once and dropped on his face Then /
vent 20 Mr., Morgan"
TIE hrsl reuort which reacped tho
Post-O once lad It that the Postmaster
was dying Wien one takes into con-
sidetstlon MT Morgsn's long term Of
service IN 'Nf DEPARTMENT and hts popu-
lsrity all over lie Federal Ru!dlng II IL
easy 10 gnfeTs' and what a profound
shock these tidlngs caused In every part
NJ ire FOst-OfCe
Capt j flynn, commanding The
Se0,e - Service az once started for one
u inbred and Forty-sNth strast and
HroadNuy taE'tg severH' Be- eCtivr-
1'tr liin. A little later news caue
that the Postmaster Was NOT fatally
hurt
morgan's Condition.
From hts Nome fl, following nl,lerir
D N4e given out ana reneated al The Post
Once
The bullet pehotrstsd MI Morgan
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Mackay hired the box on Nov. "a. 1905.
He gave as references Alexander Begg,
twentieth floor OF No Ill Broadway, and
John Flynn. His home was given as be-
ing the Ninety-ninth street address. Then
he changed ii to No. 194I Broadway,
again TO No Ill Broadway and at last
to No. 3l9 West one Hundred and Six
teenth street. The box was discontn-
ued on April 1 of this year for non-pay-
ment of rent
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nght overcoat was found a weapon ex.
teihporl"@d from a leather thong. TO
"h'cii was attached heavy lead fish
ing sinker.
Besides this was typewriter note,
which really led to his Identification
requesting tha the firm of attorneys by
whom he was employed be notified in
case oil any accident to him, and a rent
receipt made out to him by e c. vii.
Hams. No. 33s One Hundred and Six.
teenth street. for Room No. go, from the
'th to 18th of November" The recent
showed that Mackay had paid 81 room
rent.
While examining the body DR.. Weston
MADE puzzling discovery. He found
that although there was no bullet hole
IN the mans overcoat, coat or waistcoat
there was big Jagged tear over his
heart Where bullet had apparently
penetrated. The wound alone said DR..
Weston, was sufficient 10 have caused
death.
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Mackay's Last Letter.

go whom it may concern:
- am perfectly aware that 800 men
out OF every thousand will consider my
act as being simply the act Of an In
sane man and l shall be surprised If
they did not.
However the real facts are that 1t
is quite Impossible for poor man,
without political influence. TO get the
law enforced, partly revenge, as, Of
course | know | am not morally justi-
fed in killing man under the circum-
stances. tnless possibly on the
grounds that no way exists for me to
obtain redress in a milder formj
Il know that in the course of prob
ably a couple of years my eyesight Will
not permit Of my continuing my work
as a photographer, and ! would then
have to work at some lower, unskilled
calling, for possibly a bare existence for
the rest Of my life.
Therefore I am reconclled to killing
myself, and as the Postmaster deliber-
ately withheld registered letter ad-
dressed TO me under a trade name al
though ! showed him and the proper
authorities at the Registry window a
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Sent Four Letters.

Mackay sent in all four letters 10 the
Postmaster in New York Mr.. wilcox
the letters were signed by MIR. Morgan
as Assistant Postmaster MaCkey first
wrote on Feb. It, 1907, complaining that
the financial supplement of the New
York Times had not been delivered to
him. A few days later he again wrote,
saying that he had received the paper
and apologizing for the trouble he had
caused. on April %, 1901, Mackay wrote
his mail This letter was replied to by
Mr.. Morgan, saying the matter would he
investigated. His fourth letter dealt
with the fancied insult of the turning
out of the lights.
Several weeks ago, it appears from
fragmentary notes and long letter
Mackay left, Mr.. Morgan held out a
registered letter addressed TO Harold
Mackay unless he produced certificate
Of Incorporation. This Mackay. it ap-
peers, failed To do.
Mackay's room was strange tumble
of poisons, explosives, SociallStlc Liter
allure, and typewriter manuscripts.
Improvised shelves We're stacked with
bottles and Jars. labelled Poison" and
some large carhoys held acids of Vari-
Gus kinds Pamphlets and publications
on blasting and the composition OF eN-
plosives We're Uttered ankle deep about
the place. Innumerable newspaper clip
pings on explosions were piled on
From letters the police managed to
piece together some of MaCkays life
story. He was the son on an English
man and was christenod Eric Hugh
Bird Mackay, His father lives at No. II
Revere street, Cambridge, Mass. Re
Gently, SO his father wrote, he ran for
the Assembly in his district On his frs
naturalization papers and got in good
deal of tt 90 lie There were also letters
of an Objectionable character from "A
Miss j. SchWarZenbach and several bust
ness communications from a man sign
Ing himself Joshua Danielson. The
father is a Socialist and a writer on
Socialistic topics
Mackay.s farewell letter was dated
July II of this year. Evidently he had
been planning his crime for many
weeks. The letter was written on the
stationery of Harold Saxon, +. o. box
No, 800 II lay in a sealed, envelope on
mis- desk. The envelope was addressed
as follows:
In the event of anything happening
to me please open the enclosed and see
that II is published"
The letter read as follows:
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sons along about I o'clock striding up
and down one Hundred and Forty-sixth
street and muttering to himself His
ections were Sc erratic as to attract the
attention of casual passershy. From
time to time he paused in front of MIR
Morgan's house and then hurried on on
only to return and once more eve the
closed front door of the Postmaster $
residence.
The Rev. NJ. H Gates, the pastor Of
the Church Of the 1ntercession, TO which
Mr.. and Mrs Morgan belong FASTENED
to Mr.. Morgan's bedside as soon as he
heard that his parishioner was shot
He spent some time comforting Mrs
Morgan and the family. Dorothy, her
fathers companion of to-day. is the
oldest child of the three.
Two Bullets in Mackay's Body.
When Mackay's body was stripped l.
had TWO bullets in it-one IN the brain
and one through the heart. The revolv-
er which he had used to shoot Mr. Nor
gan ana Kill himself was new, i'm
proved pattern COTS of 3> Calibre The
dagger in his poke. was a very ella 90
rate affair II had pearl handle, with
silver trimmings II was IN a leather
sheath. II apparently had been recently
sharpened 20 a razor cage. The slung-
shot was q heavy affair, with a short
Mackays landlady said he left the
house unusually early to-day She
heard him going out. He had been
living in her house for seventeen
months
Mackey. she said had been in this
country for about sixteen years. The
AT all times appeared very retiCent
about his own affairs. He had n good
education. He received very few let
tiers at his home address
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DIED.

GLYNN. On Sunday Nov. 8, 1905
join, beloved husband n Mary Glynn.
Funeral Wodnesd1y Ar 1890 A. u.
from hts 'atr residence, 2lG Eat Thlrtieth
street theme 20 ST. stephens Churcr.
Erst Twenty eighth street. Calvary
Cemetery
hELIA NELLIE KELLY NEE Kelly.
native OF Harhkellc. County Limerick
lrcHnd beloved wife ~ James Kelly.
n.ise 'f Coolglass queens county, Ire
land
Funeral from her late residence iGB
Perry o., Nov A., al 2 r. n. Friends
pua relatives respectfully invited. Iu-
tsfmsnt CALVARY.
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SINKING INTO A COMA.

sobbng walng
Mr.
his headf limp
dead
with him
home, said the
door
which
boreh o hous> and laid him cd
examining
of
theyrec nizedh
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40 "a IIk a Iutu AZ ON DAI
Isks LAXATIVE hhoAO Guluiae Lab sls
IFuaEiaih rvfpna moArY n n tas 81 cure
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BULLET ENTERED LEFT SIDE,

So the bullet did side
toward the through him
Clutching the wound the Postmaster stumbled
the smooth blboad
reach his child evidently
within his stunned He stood
uhed the Of
Drawn
Probably three
also in sight faced the
the
They
with puzzled azed look slide his
his back They helpless
gng fathers n her lap
They a
he fired
although certain that
tall He had brought
forth half circle headed
toward abandoning his
hallway
upside
The double-acton mechanism a bullet into
in a
dead.
whole thing shooting
didn't five
o nghbors he was
Richard
Of the
mans side Another
station
at the of the
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child quilted
a ne fifth Broadway
streaming subway
handsome the little girl
blboards the Directly
a o
reddish hair suddenly Mr. Morgan and halt him The
nov stepped behind
had his ranmed in his
IL am" said Mr.
The mans right hand his pocket The held
revolver, blued wicked looking.
Postmaster and fired But in the nfnsma period elapsed
between the the
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Morgan's Condition.

From hts Nome flv faliHW.ug hullei0
a. given out ana reneated at the POST
once
The bullet penetrated MI 1orsan'.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-09-17
THE osKALoosA HERALD. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER II 1905

be more careful, or lose their posi-
tons. Now the miner after loading
his coal, places the powder in the
holes and goes home, knowing that his
interests will be well looked after
when firing time comes.
Previous to the passage of this law
the men had to stay in the mine I'M
til the shots were fired, and | have
fired my blast when thought my eyes
would be burned out, and upon going
back to fire the second one | have
fallen over coal and loose timbers,
many times skinning my shins and
saying things that would not look well
in print.
What can be said Of mining bills
can be said of many other bills in the
interest of the people that Kendall
has supported, among which are the
two-cent tare, the pure food law, and
many others, besides he has broad
views on the pensioning of the old
soldiers.
In conclusion, will say that Mr..
Kendall is a man of the highest hon
or and integrity, one of the greatest
orators in Iowa and he has no super
Tors and not many equals. hope to
see him elected, and it matters not
what position Nate holds, he is al
ways ready to take advice or to give
it when asked.
r. WILLIAMS.