Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-17

The circumstances luNotNiu6 tA<
two shootings are so compilcated
that it has been difficult to separate
the two, many believing that the
death of the man last night was the
result of the first nights shooting a
HaZlet.
About $3.50 o'clock Tuesday nigh
Morren and his partner. Alonzf
Layton, also of Hazlet. members oi
the Hazlet Trading Company. wer<
putting their automobile in the ga
rage when two masked men carry
ing guns held theR up. MorreL
drew his revolver and fred One Of
the hoIdup men did likeN sse. Dul-'
| let striking MorrelL An alarm WAS
sounded and a search for the men
started but no arrests We're made.
Morrell was removed to the Mon
mouth Memorial Hospital at Lons
Branch in critical Condition.
About o'clock yesterday morn.
ing a man giving his name a.
George E. Fouriner, twenty-five
years old, OF Middletown, brought
to the office of DR.. II. s. Cooley IN
Keyport a man who was shot in the
abdomen. The doctor was told by
Fouriner that he had accidentally
shot him the night before. Realiz-
ing that the man was seriously
wounded and should be rushed to
hospital so that an operation might
be performed, DR. Cooley orderes
him removed TO the Long Branch
hospital, to which Morrel1 had beer
taken the night before. The mar
who was shot was Henry Wads-
worth thirty-nine years old, a.sc
of Middletown He was rushed e
the hospital and lived until 5:5s
o'clock last night when he died.
Officers George n. Mason and
James McCann Of the Keyport police
I in search of the hold-up men OF
Tuesday night heard of the presence
of a wounded man in DR.. Iooleys
| office and Immediately went there
I and placed Fouriner under arrest
charging him with atrocious assault
| Prosecutor sexton's Office was not
( ified and Detective Jack Smith was
detailed on the case. The wound In
| Wadsworth's abdomen. according 10
/ the report received by the police
| from the doctor. vas caused by a
J revolver bullet ana had not been
freshly inflicted. having been pos
/ sibly several hours before he was
! brought TO the doctors Office.
F'ouriner was arraigned before
Justice Isaac y. Johnson here and
held without bail for the grand jury.
He was later taken to the county
| Jail by Detective Smith.
The defense OF E'ouriner, who to-
gether with Wadswcrth. were pro-
I prietors of the Lone Pine stand
Z along the main road at Middletowns
Is that the shooting was accidental
, When word was received of Wads-
( worth's death. the charge against
/ Fouriner was made from atrocious
assault TO murder.
The shooting. according TO Fouri-
ner was the result of a discussion
and demonstration Of the shooting
earlier in the night at Keyport in
which Morrell was shot. Word OF
/ the shooting had been received. he
said. in the lunch loom and. Accord
ing to his story there were several
men in the stand a. the time. These
men were Russell Dangler. Edward
Walling. William Vanderbilt and
Lewis Spiegley.
According TO the story told the
prosecutor by Fouriner. in the midst
OF his discussion on how MorreH
had shot the other man and been
shot iE return, he grabbed 8 Ger
man automatic revolver from the
shelf. In SO doing it accidentally
went off, he said. striking his part
ner in The abdomen. IL could not
be learned this morning whether
or not the four men whose names
the county detectives have as beins
lpresent witnessed the actual shoot
ing, or whether they merely heard
the report of the shot.
There are many things which are
unexplained as yet and the prose-
cutor's force are endeayoring 20
, clear them up as well as locate the
! guilty parties in the Morren shoot-
! ing. 1t is a question why such
delay was allowed following the
: shooting of Wadsworth ana niz
being taken to a doctor for treat
ment-
J Morrells condition was so serioua
this morning that his family wa
notified and they went to the nee-
pftal. He is about sixty yeara o'o'