Chester Co. PAGenWeb Archives - OBIT - DAILY LOCAL NEWS - Albert S. Johnson Obit - 1915

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ALBERT S. JOHNSON, ACCOUNT OF HIS MURDER, OBIT 1915
 
                                   21 August 1915
                                   Daily Local News
 
          By Pennsylvania Railroad this morning at 8:26 there arrived in
      Coatesville, the body of ALBERT S. JOHNSON, well known in
      that town, who was murdered by his father on Monday last in
      North Scituate, Rhode Island, not far from Providence. His funeral
      occurs tomorrow, and interment will be made in HEPZIBAH 
      BAPTIST CEMETERY. 
          ALBERT JOHNSON had married Miss Jessie ORR, a daughter
      of ATLEE ORR, formerly of Coates street, Coatesville, and the 
      widow and her father, accompanied the body from North Scituate.
          The story is that last Monday ALBERT JOHNSON and his
      father, ARTHUR JOHNSON, had a dispute over a horse. At the
      dinner table the exchanged words and the father became so
      infuriated that he did not rest until he had shot the son in the road 
      near the house. After the young man fell the father bruised his face
      by prodding it with the muzzle of the gun. Then the father cut his 
      own throat with a razor, and was taken to a neighboring hospital,
      where he died at five o'clock in the afternoon.
          ALBERT JOHNSON, who was twenty-six years old, was not so
      well known about Coatesville as are the relatives of his widow, he
      having been married about five years ago. He made his home with his
      father, who was fifty-eight years old. ATLEE ORR, the 
      father-in-law, makes his home with a son, THOMAS ORR.
          On arriving in Coatesville, this morning, ATLEE ORR and the
      young widow were reluctant to talk, being overcome with distress
      on account of the unhappy affair, which had so affected their lives.