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Show J. J. MORRIS' REAL I NAME ISMETZGER I Parents In Pittsburgh Identify Photo- B graphs and Minute Bertlllon fl Description. -U Lawrence Motzger Is tho man who fjfl was hanged a week from yesterday Lfl for tho murder of Joseph Walter An- Ifl tell. Until yesterday ho was known IB hero as J, J. Morris. Ifl When tho fnct that ho was a M Pittsburgh man leaked out Bertlllon ! photographs, secured through his ffl criminal record, wore published In lfl a Pittsburgh nowspnper. lfl Bertllliii measurements and n Itl mlnuto description of tho murderer were nlso given. Mr. and Mrs. Hen- 1H ry Mougor, tho parents, recognized Mfl their son and announced tho tact flfl Thoy are rospected citizens ot Elliot, lfl a populous ward of Pittsburgh. jrfl rContluuod on pago flvoj jjfl m J. J. MORRIS' REAL NAME IS METZGEH Continued from Page 1. They Bald ho ran away from home twenty-thrco jenrB ago, at tho ago of sixteen. They attribute his downfall to uvll associates In the west. Following Is a special dlBpatch to Tho Herald-Republican from Pittsburgh: Pitts-burgh: Pittsburgh, Pa., May 7. The J. J. Morris who wbb hanged at Salt Lake April 30 for tho murder of Joseph Axtell was Lawrence Mctzger, aged thirty-nine, who was born and reared rear-ed In' the old borough of Elliott, now the Twentieth wnrd of 'this city. He had been a wanderer since the age of sixteen. This fact was established 'through the publication last Sunday of two Bcrtlllon photographs of Morr's In the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The photographs were Identified today by Mr. 'and Mrs. Henry Metzger of Char-tier Char-tier avenue as those of their eldest child; The entire story Is one of romance, tragedy and the foolhardl-ness' foolhardl-ness' of an adventurous spirit Herald Her-ald Republican. |
