Volume 18 , Issue 38

April 1889, A Canadian Outlaw Captured

It was during the first Land Rush into Oklahoma country that a Canadian Outlaw was captured. As the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dated 22 April 1889, Monday, page 1, read: " A Canadian Outlaw Captured." He resisted arrest and was shot down at his father's door.

Found on Newspapers.com

Montreal, April 21 (1889) -- Morrison, the celebrated Quebec outlaw, had at last been captured, having defied both the civil and military authorities of Quebec for nearly a year. He was a prisoner, but true to his oath that he would sell his liberty dearly, he made a bold attempt to murder his capturer, and in this act was shot down at his father's door.

The news of his capture was received after midnight. It appeared that when the Montreal force was ordered home Constables McMahan and Leroy remained behind hiding in the bush near the log cabin of Morrison's father, about a mile from Marsden, and about 2 o'clock that evening two men entered the hut, but they were too far away to recognize either. When night came the constables crept up to the cabin, but a dog's warning bark gave notice of their presence. Instantly the door was thrown open, and a man dressed in pants and shirt came out and looked cautiously around. In hand he held a large revolver and the officer at once recognized Morrison. "Throw up you hands," they ordered. In reply he fired three shots at them.

Both dropped to their knees unwounded, and as they went down returned the first with their Winchesters, and the next instant Morrison fell, both jumped on him, but he was past resistance, being severely wounded in the left groin. More assistance being summoned, he was wrapped in blankets and taken to Marsden village. A special train was to convey the captured outlaw to that town.

The crime for which Morrison had been so long hunted for wa the shooting, in broad day on the principal street i Sherbrook, of an ex-United States bailiff who went to arrest him for arson.
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