Editing Morgan Earp (section)

=== Ambush and murder ===
{{wikisource|The Deadly Bullet}}
At 10:50&nbsp;p.m. on Saturday, March 18, 1882, after returning from a [[musical theater|musical]] at [[Schieffelin Hall]], Morgan was ambushed. He was playing a late round of [[pool (game)|billiards]] at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor against owner Bob Hatch. Dan Tipton, Sherman McMaster, and Wyatt watched, having received threats that same day.<ref name=dodge>{{Cite book|last1=Dodge|first1=Fred|last2=Lake|first2=Carolyn|title=Under Cover for Wells Fargo The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge|year=1999|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|isbn=978-0806131061|page=336|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4n8-tmFvI7wC&pg=PA38|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425224649/https://books.google.com/books?id=4n8-tmFvI7wC&pg=PA38|archive-date=2016-04-25}}</ref>{{rp|38}}

The assailant shot Morgan through the upper half of a four-pane windowed door. The bottom two windows had been painted over. The door opened onto a dark alley that ran through the block between Allen and Fremont Streets.  Morgan, about {{convert|10|ft}} from the door, was struck by a bullet in the back which injured his spine then exited his front and entered the thigh of mining foreman George A. B. Berry.<ref name=johnson>{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=Paul Lee|title=The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona : an O. K. Corral obituary|year=2012|publisher=University of North Texas Press|location=Denton|isbn=978-1574414509|page=281|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkLyIwACxO8C&q=George+Berry+hatch+saloon&pg=PA281|edition=1st|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427054503/https://books.google.com/books?id=mkLyIwACxO8C&pg=PA281&dq=George+Berry+hatch+saloon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=V8CaUbvJKOWYiALWv4HgAg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=George%20Berry%20hatch%20saloon&f=false|archive-date=2016-04-27}}</ref> Another bullet lodged in the wall near the ceiling over Wyatt's head.<ref name=wgbh/> Several men rushed into the alley but found the shooter had fled.<ref name=johnson/>

After Morgan was shot, his brothers tried to help him stand, but Morgan said "Don't, I can't stand it. This is the last game of pool I'll ever play."<ref name="O'Neal">{{cite book| title=Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters  |isbn=978-0806123356 |first=Bill |last=O'Neal|year=1991 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press }}</ref>{{rp|97}} They moved him to the floor near the card room door. Dr. William Miller arrived first, followed by Drs. Matthews and [[George E. Goodfellow|George Goodfellow]]. They all examined Morgan. Goodfellow, who would earn recognition in the United States as the nation's leading expert at treating abdominal gunshot wounds,<ref name=oldwest>{{cite web|title=Dr. George E. Goodfellow|url=http://societyoftheoldwest.ning.com/forum/topics/dr-george-goodfellow|access-date=8 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220090137/http://societyoftheoldwest.ning.com/forum/topics/dr-george-goodfellow|archive-date=20 December 2014}}</ref> concluded that Morgan's wounds were fatal.<ref name="O'Neal"/>{{rp|97}}

Goodfellow described Morgan's wounds:

{{blockquote|He was in a state of collapse resulting from a gunshot, or pistol wound, entering the body just to the left of the spinal column in the region of the left kidney emerging on the right side of the body in the region of the gall bladder. It certainly injured the great vessels of the body causing hemorrhage which, undoubtedly, causes death. It also involved the spinal column. It passed through the left kidney and also through the loin.<ref name=marks>{{cite book|author=Paula Mitchell Marks|title=And Die in the West: the Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight|location=New York|publisher=Morrow|year=1989|isbn=0671706144}}</ref>}}

In the book ''[[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal]]'', author [[Stuart N. Lake|Stuart Lake]]  wrote that Wyatt said<ref name=barra1998>{{cite book|first=Allen |last=Barra |author-link=Allen Barra |title=Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends |url=https://archive.org/details/inventingwyattea00barr |url-access=registration |location=New York | publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers |year=1998 |isbn=0786706856}}</ref>{{rp|233}} that Morgan, before dying, whispered to Wyatt, "I can't see a damned thing." Wyatt said that they had promised each other to report visions of the next world when at the point of death.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ruffin|first=C. Bernard|title=A Dictionary of Deathbed Quotations|year=2006|publisher=McFarland & Co. |location=Jefferson, NC|isbn=978-0786425525}}</ref>{{rp|2}} They moved him to a lounge and Morgan's family—Wyatt, Virgil, and James, along with Allie and Bessie—gathered around him. Morgan's wife Louisa was in Colton with his parents, and Warren Earp was out of town.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/morgan.htm |title=The Assassin at Last Successful in His Devilish Mission Morgan Earp Shot Down and Killed While Playing Billiards |newspaper=The Tombstone Epitaph |date=March 20, 1882 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209130232/http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/morgan.htm |archive-date=February 9, 2006 |access-date=January 27, 2006 }}</ref> Morgan died less than an hour after he was shot.<ref name=wgbh/><ref>{{cite web|title=Morgan Seth Earp B. 04/24/1851 D. 03/18,1882|url=http://www.eaglefreeenterprises.com/pictures/morgan_earp.htm|access-date=27 May 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527234150/http://www.eaglefreeenterprises.com/pictures/morgan_earp.htm|archive-date=27 May 2011}}</ref>