Weekly journal-miner., 1913-02-12

protect IHS HOlOI OI HIS idiiiAS Oi any of its members when T. J Morrison who killed Edward Zieger at Octave last Saturday night walk ed out Of the Superior Court room last night a free man, following a motion for the dismissal of the case by no less a parsonage than District Attorney P. w. O'Sullivan.
 The preliminary examination be- gan at seven o'clock and lasted four hours. During that long period there was unfolded a story that re- suited in the complete vindication of the act of Morrison in the taking of human life. It was not a pleas ant story by any means, many of the details being unfit for puDica- tion In fact spectators were bar red from the hearing and the ruling was one of wisdom.
 After all the evidence had been heard District Attorney O'Sullivan arose and said: After listening to testimony given by the witnesses and taking into consideration the facts and circumstances surrounding the case, no other conclusion can be reached but what the defendant was justified in protecting the honor L 4l, 1f Ia family It is an unfortunate case unfortunate for Mir Morrison that he was forced to commit the deed, and unfortunate for the bereaved woman who sat here and listened to the story of how she was made a widow. but the conclusion is forced home that under the circumstances MT Morrison was justified and as the representative of the prosecut- |, ing office of the county move that the charge be dismissed and the prisoner discharged from custody"
 In accordance with the views ex pressed by MT. O'Sullivan, Judge McLane ordered the discharge of Morrison and he was immediately the center of a group of friends of fering congratulations upon his ac- quitta1.
 Such in brief was the result of the proceedings to determine wheth- CT Morrison should be bound over for trial on charge of murdering Edward Zieger The dramatic mo- ments of the hearing came when the girl told her story on the stand and when the father related how in fear of his own life and the lives of his family and rendered almost in sane by the knowledge that the man who attempted to assault his daugh- ter had the temerity to seek him out at his own home, he turned loose both barrels of a shotgun he had borroed from a boy and fol- lowed them with a bullet from a rifle.
 The witnesses for the prosecution gave evidence that established moth ing more than the fact of Zieger's death and the nature of the wounds he received, three in number-two gunshot wounds, one in the pit of the stomach, one on the hip and a rifle wound, the ball entering the left breast and emerging at the right shoulder blade. Sheriff Keeler and Lester Ruffner the undertaken, were called for this purpose. Dan B. Genung, who was the foreman of the Coroner's jury threw no light on the tragedy. Mrs Zieger was asked if she knew the reason her husband went to Octave the day of the killing and she said: "Yes, the reason he went there was because a girl told some lies" Objection by Robert E. Morrison, counsel for the accused stopped the remainder of the answer Asked the same ques- tion again the witness replied in the same vein. A further question as to what happened elicited the response: Il presume he was murdered" The answer was stricken out
 J. A. Britton, who took the place of Morrison as nightwatchman at the Octave mill, the evening of the tragedy related the circumstances of removing Zieger from the postoffice porch where he was shot to a house across the street and finding a 3S- Colts revolver in Zieger's overcoat pocket.
 Robert Zink, who is employed at the store run by Zieger at Congress Junction had no real knoweldge of the facts of the case and his ex-