Eureka Reporter | 1908-08-07 | Page 4 | Murders His Friend While in Drunken Rage

murders his friend while in drunken rage aurora ill III J A morrell a wealthy farmer living at blackberry center a small village fifteen miles from here was fatally shot and his housekeeper was murdered by john anae ananson An aeson son who w ho was employed on mor rell tell s farm anderson later commit ed suicide with a shotgun blowing the top of his head off anderson had been brinling drini drin ling ing heavily for several weeks and it is believed be he was de merited andersen anderson when sober was devotedly attached lo 10 morrell who had always treated him more as a friend than as an employee