Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-14
'ODD-FELLOWs DIRECTORY
GEORGIA.
Particulars On the Late Trageoy y
ia Alfalfa

A correspondent Of the Nashville Ban
HcT, writing 0n the 9th inst. ssys tna'
our very quiet town was not little
excited this morning, sunday the S-h o.
May, by the occurrence Of an extraordi-
nary tragedy on HUuter street.
Among the "dezd tea" " sTistOcTacy
that surround Gov. Bullock Ess q clerE
in bis employ. haiiiTg from New York
named joan HsHry Fay. Coming from
q cold Climate 70 the sunny South after
hsving in bis native cline become fully
iadoetrinRted ia the nllscegeDstion fsitn,
so ZssiOGsIy pT0psgatea by the Praise
God -Barebones % school OF theology for
q feg years past, il il not TO be wondered
st that the aforesaid victim Of false
teachers and faraticaI politicians should
have q prurieut curiosity 10 practically
carry cut the conscientious convictions
Of ms mind, particularly when an oppor-
tunfty vas presented, some six months
since, IN the person Of q tall, cuEiy-halEed
muIstto named Epsy Herd, or Hurt.
About six months since Fay became
enamoreG Of Epsy Herd (or Hurt and
with her he hEc, during that time, been
living on the mOst intimate terms. On
Saturday lsst, having had his Jealousy
aroused, he called 81 hsr homs, tut h1c-
ing her absent, this =" trit1s, lignt a. sir, "
wss damuing prOCt Of his suspicious
that st 3 picnic che had added another
string to heT bow.
During ali cf Saturday night he quar-
relied with her, ard attempting TO rise IN
The UnqfniDg, be shot her in the lungs,
an iDct or two below her right breast,
the ball lo,i EiRg IL her iuugs. Believing
that he had killed her, he then turned
the mUzZie Of the pistol upon himself,
and IL s.c5ss5 two tEllet wouCds just be
low the right nippls, which proved Iatal
70 him in almost i've minutes. After
shosting himself he called Epsy to him
and told her he Wss going - tle, ana
asked her 70 kiss him. EDgy viii prob
sbly get vel, hut Fay soon gasped MS
Lass, and was bU- led this afternoon WITH
out the pF6ssnce Of single indiylduai
except tue uudeTtsker and MS employees
and the sexton OF the cemetery.
The following il an exact cony OF
letter CT viii, ss you may please 20 call
l., m the handwriting Of Esy, written,
IS ia supposed, on Saturday night, al
though it is without dsts, proving the
deliberstiOn with which he contemplated
murder and suicide.
Charley SteGdmsn will please psy
ReichteF nis bill, Mr.. Webster and George
Crease also their bills; Mrs. Bssrm0n
her bill be will also get nay mockinZ
bird ana give 1t to PoOchee. Ny watch
and everything found is intended snd
hereby Willed to my sister Jane, corner
Of Tbirteenth street and sixth avenue,
New York. Mr. P. b. d Gfsffeired viii
give q warrant for - which Charley
viii pIeRse send with other effects 20 my
sister Jane. I hereby caution every col
In
Fiiz Patrick, a. 3 mean, uDpriDcipied
traitor below the notice OF any iDtelli-
gent voter or h0nest cit zen OF tie repub-
lie. GUd save the Stats and the poor
colOred peCple in II -.--.-.,-,
- Mcclure haC my I'D, sBd wll return
II on payment OF 3 s1fsH bill"
Suppose that this msscegenRting sui
eide and would be murderer had sue
ceeded in numbering outright, IS eVl-
IDENTIFY he Intended 60 do, bis mulatto
psrsmOUr, and then endiug bis own lie,
ss be did in the private apartment oecd.
pied by ehe guilty pair, from one end OF
This country to tbe other the Radical
press would have teemsd with the story
of one OF Gov. Bullock's clerks and sD
faoffensive cOlored lady ~ murdered in
cold blood by the X. X. X,
p. .S.-ATLANTA, May l0.-Since mall
iug my mmuuiestiOn, learn from sn
authentic source that J Inn Henry Fay,
who killed himself here yesterday. Was
a reporter for the New York Tribune,
and Was in the habit of Gispatchipg ev
eTythiDg he could find that by peryeEsion
or colOrinE would work Injury 70 the
State and the South. He was well cd
ucated mSn-msEtsr Of tLfSe or four
languages.