Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-19
noted surgeon
u SLAIN IN CHURCH
Mad Printer Fires Bullet Into Dr..
!. W. Markoe's Head as He
Passes Plate
TWO OTHERS ARE WOUNDED

Shelley. madWan' receut! 'e'"p'u
s.o, mn asylum. shot aud killed DIR.
,,nos w. Markoc. distinguished
surgeon. as he was taking up the col
,o,.ion following the sermon in St.
coorro's Protestant Episcopal Church,
.Io.tlv after noon yesterday.
Tbcn the assassin dashed down the
aide toward the door. firing one bullet
=, Herbert l.. Satterlce, brother In law
HI y. Morgan. and another at John
r. Tiedeman. sexton. who saved his
n nv throwing himself prone on the
aoor This lcadcu pellet grazed the left
check of !. Morgan Jones. head usher.
4 third went over the heads Of men and
women in the rear pews to the left as
one enters. .,
nr George II. Brewer. also a noted
,rrgeon, was nipped in the left thigh
hy a bullet when he caught the maniac
II Smyycsant Park ut Fifteenth street.
.i,er wild chase through screaming
thronrs Of women and children.
william Fpllowcs Morgan. president
NJ rho Merchants Association. was wi
Doctor Brewer. and at the forefront of
Tho chase with Mr.. Morgan and Doctor
Brewer were Mr.. Ticdcman and Mr..
Jones.
No attempt was made by any Of the
cantors TO hurt the prisoner.
Asked why he shot Doctor Markoc,
Cmpkiu said
II went into the church this morn
ING TO listen to the sermon. During the
sermon ! heard the minister say that all
trouble is due to money and the people
should wake up. even IL you need to
stab them with a dagger thought
this was the right time to wake them
IN. so shot the man near me-
When told what Simpkin had said he
understood the rector to have said. Sex
ton Tiedcman exclaimed:
"ThC sermon was a very beautiful
one. and contained nothing at all like
that" .
Tragedy Follows Sermon
Il was shortly after the sermon that
the tragedy occurred. 1t took place at
12:20 ,. IN. in the south aisle. Mr..
Satterlce walked up the south side of
the south aisle nearest Sixteenth street
passing the collection plate. Elbow
to elbow with him was Doctor Markoc.
passing the plate to the people sitting
on The north side of the south aisle,
When Doctor Markoe approached
quite close to Simpkin. two or three
feet. witnesses said. the lupatic reached
into his inside coat pocket pulled out
the revolver. snapped it to position like
an experienced markSman and shot the
physician. The collection plate with
the money on il clattercd TO the floor.
Mr. Ticdeman. the sexton. heard the
report from where he stood in the rear
Of the church.
1T sounded like an automobile back
E,n' ~ hc niI .shtf
that Their ] saw the smoke. ! rushed
down the aisle and saw a man coming
toward me waving smoking revolver
from ore side to the other. lie fired a
shot at mo and ] dropped to the floor.
The man fired another shot. and when |
got up he was running into the park |
opposite"
' Wife Hears Fatal Shot
DR.. MarkoP's wife was in the gallery !
oi the church when her husband was
Killed. From where she sat she did not
see the shooting, but heard the revolver !
shots.
"IS anybody hurt?" she asked Nor.
ton Payton. friend. who witnessed the |
ahar and who went to her Immediately. |
"lcS;, your husband. " he said. and
escorted her to the hosnital. She is now !
Frustrated and under the care Of a ply
sician.
Simpkin was taken to police station.
whore many religious aud other papcrs,
including an afcctiOnate letter from
duluth. Mimi. presumably from a
SaGghter. were found in his pockets.
subsequently hr was removed to Belle.
yuc Hospital and placed in the psycho-
pathlc ward for observation
Game East to Kill j. p. Morgan
After Simpkin's arraignment on n
sharge Of homicide this morning, when
Ne NE was held without bail for hearing
nm,ssah"Sday, n,si Assistant District Attorney
oohaushnessy said he had obtained
nom me prisoner Il voluntary confession
mat ma ne mad come to this city to kill !.
ii,erpoht Morgan. but had found he was
aead. ana that he then planned to slay
%'IIer ~ representative George b. Miller.
O.; am not sorry for what ! did,"
"aPN'n onnP was quoted as SAYING. Il am
"WF sorry for Doctor Markoe's wife.
wy h"art aches for her
n had chance I'd do it all over
"sa.n ,1G u ! had got away with this |
pV",a W,Ivc nave killed Congressman George
A. A. MllIcr, of Duluth. I heard Miller
W'EIe W IN speech. If you see an |.
~. w; VII. XIII him Amy man advocating
iiIIoG lin GTilInng Of another man should be-
1llcd himself"
assassin a Religious Fanatic
, nlIhpKin was revealed by the police ms
"lislous fanatic who took pleasure in
bbvsrlns b"s sermons in different churches.
S";"no h VINO always went armed in fear of
~hi't returned to insane asylums from
W WW%"n he had escaped in Minnesota.
TmhnlP'g Chicago, and elsewhere.
or'n r ponce announced that the pris-
, ,",r was born in London in 1879 the
printer. who died soon after tho
JorS. olrth' He was brought .up in
"O"uon orphan asylum.
g. Frequently in Asylum
S,,"'Pkln said he came to the United
,no. nHh IN 1912 and went TO Minnesota,
bn boon suddenly leaving Woodsidc, l.. /,
,voa y, OF criticism of his rolling
pamod Minnesota. he said. a clergyman
IA teu tb Richardson had him committed
and ,"e fergus Falls Asylum. He escaped
h',WWaS was returned at the instance Of n
bs 'n o minister named Gebour. Then
msrrIPed a third time. and in 1914
two red I. Winnipeg woman. They had
mit,oI mir ocI%i'dren, and his wife had him com.
her chrI 10 an asylum. Then she and
sssstamu'n went to England with the
"Wh"cne OF fraternal order.
Gary" ""'n l got out Of the asylum in
teyoyo, ne said, ~ decided to get n
felt ali riuL IN ~: Georges yesterday |