The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-03
SHOT THEM BOTH.
A Wronged Husband Takes Dead
ly Revenge at Louisville.
Fulton Gordon Surprises His Wife and q
Son of Gov. Brown In AN EVIL Re-
sOrt-Grief of the Strick-
Father.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, May /. = Archie
Brown, the governors son and secre-
tary, paid with his life for liason
with another mans wife. The latter
shared the fate of her paramount, the
wronged husband shooting them 20
death in the room in which he had sur
prised them in their guilt. Fulton
Gordon is the name of the man who SO
terribly avenged his domestic dishonor.
story of the Double Murder.
: At noon Brown, with Gordon's wife,
knocked at the front door of Lucie Il.
Smiths Madison street house. They
were admitted by Matte Mattingly,
colored woman, and Immediately re-
paired to the upstairs front room,
which had been previously engaged.
Thirty minutes later rather tall,
dark-haired man knocked at the door
! of the house and was admitted.
He engaged the front lower
room, saying that a woman would join
him there shortly. The man closed all
the doors, and few minutes later
commotion was heard above followed
by succession of pistol shots. Then
there was a hurried movement down
stairs as Mrs. Gordon fed from the
scene. A few more shots rang out and
she fell dead on the porch in the rear
yard.
The Murderer's Story.
Gordon was arrested by Police Off
GERS Kelley and LaPaille while getting
into his buggy. He exclaimed:
Il shot both of them. | caught them
!
with me and III show you where they
are" Gordon said to Officer LaPaille on
the way to the Jail that he had been
suspecting the couple for some
time, and about a week ago he found
that his suspicious were correct. He
went to the house and found the couple
in bed together lie drew his pistol
and fired five shots at Brown, by which
time Brown had his own pistol
out. Brown fred two shots at
Gordon, and then the latter grappled
with him and took his pistol away
from him and shot at him with his own
weapon. After shooting at Brown he
shot at his wife as she was going down
the steps, striking her just as she
reached the bottom. She fell dead out
side the door.
The Victims.
Browns body lay on the floor of the
room in which he was killed until .
o'clock. when it was removed by Under
taker King. The body presented a hor-
rible appearance, being covered with
blood from head to foot. There was no
clothing on the body except pair of
drawers and a pair of socks. There
were three gunshot wounds in the
breast, one of them being over the re
gion of the heart; there were two
wounds in the head, one being in the
center of the forehead and there was
another in the center of the stomach
and another in the right arm.
Mrs. Gordon was lying on a cellar
door in the yard, face downward. She
was clothed only in chemise and a
skirt, and was in her stocking feet.
Her hair was loose and was hanging
about her head in a tangled mass.
Matte Mattingly, the colored WON
an. says that Brown and Mrs Gordon
had been accustomed to visit the house
on Saturdays of each week for some
time.
Mrs. Gordon was Miss Nellie Bush, OF
this city. and her family is one of the
best known and most prominent in this
state. Her mother was once state Ii
brarian at Frankfort and her grand
father was Judge Zachariah Wheat,
chief Justice of the court of appeals
of Kentucky, and one of the most
learned and distinguished of Ken
tucky's jurists. Fulton Gordon at the
time of their marriage was one of the
best known men about town. He was
clerk in the Gait house, and had ac'
quaintances in every portion of the
country.
Justifabie Homicide.
The coroner held an inquest over the
bodies late Tuesday afternoon, and the
jury rendered verdict of justitiable
homicide. 1t is understood, however,
that Gordon will be held for informal
preliminary examination. The body
of Brown will be taken charge of by
his father, and will be taken to Hen
derson. the governors home, for
burial.
Grief of the Governor.
FRANKFORT, Ky, May THE news
of the tragic death of Arch Dixon
Brown, son and private secretary OF
the governor, reached here by tcle
graph shortly after o'clock. tele
gram from DR.. John Young Brown, Jr.
conveyed the sad intellige nee to Gov
Brown. who was at the time sitting in
his office, quietly conversing with Sec
rotary of State Headley and Commits
sioner of Agriculture Mcdowell. He
was completely overcome when told
of the sad fate of his son, to whom ht
was as perfectly devoted as it was pos
sible for father To be. The gov
eruor's grief was uncomfortable and
he gave way TO the most piteou'
lamentations. Gov. Brown and Score
tary Headley left at o'clock for Louis
Vile