The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-01
SHOT HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
THE DEAD MAN THE SON OF GOV.
BROWN OF KENTUCKY.

The Guilty Pair Caught in he'd To-
gether by the WrOnged Husband.
He Watched Them Enter the House
and Then Followed Them-Four
Shots Fired by Brown in an At
tempt to Kill the Husband.
Louisville, April 3O.-Archie Brown
the governors son and secretary, paid
with his life to-day for liason with
another mans wife. The latter shared
the fate of her paramour, the wronged
husband shooting them to death in the
room in which he had surprised them in
their guilt.
Fulton Gordon is the name of the man
who so terribly avenged his domestic
dishonor.
The tragedy is one of the most sensa-
tional in the history Of the state on ac-
count of the prominence of the persons
involved and the circumstances surround
ing the case. 1t occurred at 1926 O'Clock
in an evil resort kept by a colored woman
al 1925 West Madison street. Brown was
killed in the room and Mrs Gordon was
shot as she was fleeing from the place.
At noon Brown, with Gordon's wife,
knocked at the front door Of Lucie b.
Smiths Madison street house. They were
admitted and at once repaired to the up
stairs front room, which had been pre-
viously engaged. Thirty minutes later u
tall, dark-haired man knocked at the
door Of the house and was admitted. He
engaged the front lower room, saying
that woman would join him there short
ly. The man closed all the doors and
few minutes later a commotion was heard
above, followed by a succession of pistol
shots. Then 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.
Gordon left the house at once. A few
moments later Browns corpse was found
in the upstairs room.
The following telegram was taken from
his pocket:
louisville, KY, April 2s.-Archie b.
Brown, Goyernor's Private Secretary,
Frankfort, Ky. Don't write any more.
Come Tuesday. Meet me at s., 10 a. m"
1t was pursuant to this telegram that
Brown met Mrs. Gordon this morning.
1t was brief but sanguinary battle that
was fought in the front room of the sec
ond floor of Lucie Smiths house. AS
soon as Gordon gained admittance, a duel
to the death evidently began. Brown had
a thirty-eight calibre revolver which was
found empty after the tragedy. Six bullets
pierced Browns body and three that of
Mrs. Gordon.
The bed on which Brown and Mrs.
Gordon lay was covered with blood, show
there, or in the struggle one or more of
the wounded had fallen there.
'iist 'shSt p. = any. Mrs. Sore on TOOK
IN the fatal encounter only her husband
is alive to say. The walls of the room are
smeared with blood and filled with bullet
1n> slayer OF h.s wife and her para
mour was arrested by Officers Reilly and
Lapaille, while getting into his buggy;
He exclaimed: 81 shot both of them. l
caught them in the act. They are both
dead. Come with me and I'll show you
Gordon said to officer Papaille on the
way to Jail that he had suspected the
couple for some time, and about week
ago he found that his suspicious were
correct. He went TO the house this morn
ing and found them in the same bed.
He drew his pistol and fired five shots
son had his own pistol in place. Brown
fired two shots at Gordon. Then the lat
ter grappled with him and took his pis-
tol away from him and shot 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 outside the
door.
Browns body lay on the floor of the
room in which he was killed until 2 o'clock
when it was removed by Undertaken King
The body presented a horrible appear
ance, being covered with blood from head
TO foot. There was no clothing on the
body, except a pair of drawers and pair
of socks. There were three gun shot
wounds in the breast, one of them being
over the region or the heart; two wounds
in the head, one being in the center of
the forehead. 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 a chemise and skirt, and
was in her stocking feet. Her hair was
loose, and was hanging in a tangled mass.
Matte Mattngly, colofed woman, says
that Brown and Mrs. Gordon had been
accustomed to visit the house on Satur-
day of each week for some time.
Mrs. Gordon was Miss Nellie Bush, of
this city. Her family is one of the most
prominent in this state. Her mother was
once state librarian and her grandfather
was Judge Zacariah Wheat, chief justice
or the court of appeals of Kentucky.
Fulton Gordon, at the time of his mar
r1age was one of the best known men
about town. He was then a clerk at
the Gait house of this city, and had ac-
quaintances in every portion of the coun-
". They eloped about ten years ago.
Shortly afterward they moved to Frank
tort, where he became proprietor of the
Kenyon hotel. This he continued to run
until the worlds fair began, when he sold
out his establishment and moved to Chi
cago where he became manager of the
Turkish baths in the Palmer house.
The coroner held an inquest over the
DodleS this afternoon, and the jury rem
dered verdict of justifiable homicide. 1t
IS understood, however, that Gordon will
pc held for formal preliminary examina-
ton.