Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-03
SHOT BY GORDON IN AN AS
SIGNATI0N HOUSE,
Details of the Bloody and Sensational
Affair at Louisville.
BROWNS BODY BURIED AT HENDERSON.

ing and at the same time rapidly adj
vancing toward Brown. AS he ran
toward the dresser, Gordon grabbed
a pitcher with his left hand. With
his right he emptied the remaining
four shots in the revolver into Browns.
body.
In the meantime Brown had recov-
cred his pistol, and turning upon his
assailant, he began firing. He only
! fired two shots at Gordon, for the lat
ter was close upon him. He tossed
his empty pistol upon the floor. and
with his diseugaged hand grabbed
Browns right hand which held the.
other smoking pistol and at the same
time dealt Brown terrific blow over
the head with the beer pitcher, smash
ing the piece of china into small
bits.
AS the blow fell upon Browns
head he loosed his grasp on his pistol
and Gordon had jerked it out of his
hand in second,
| Then with Browns own pistol, Cor
don aimed at his breast, and fred.
The ball passed into Browns heart,
and he sank into the corner by the
dresser dead.
Mrs. Gordon sprang at her hus--
bands back just as he gave Brown
the shot which finished him. With
tooth and nail and small fists she.
fought madly.
Then Gordon turned upon his wife,
Two charges were yet in Browns
pistol, which he held in his hand. He
threw his wife from him and fred at
her barred breast. The ball entered
just above the left nipple, and she
fell over against the door leading to,
the stair way. The blood spurted
from the wound and was smeared on
the inner side of the door. Though
she received mortal wound, the
woman succeeded in getting the door
open and stumbled out and started
down the steps running. Gordon
ran to the door and fired another
shot at the woman between the rails
of the bannister.
The bullet did not strike the WON.
am. She ran on down the steps and
across the narrow hall and into the
front parlors. She rushed to the
door leading to the back parlor, find
ing it bolted, as it had been left by
her husband, Though bullet had
passed from thirty eight caliber
Smith & Wesson revolver through
her breast, and entirely through her
body, she was able to unbolt the door,
open it and run on through the din
ing room and kitchen. As she ran
out the kitchen door and startt d
toward the rear yard she dropped to
her knees on little wooden porch at
the side of the kitchen. She tried to.
rise, but threw her hands out in
front of her and fell at full length
dead.
Coroner Hood was summoned. He
found the woman lying on the porch
at the side of the kitchen, where she
had first fallen.
Coroner Hood found Archie Browns
body just as it had fallen in the room
up stairs. 1t was in STOPPING posi-
ton, almost without any clothing.
The head rested against the side Of
the dresser.
lueIc were SEVEN WOlliluS III DrOWn s.
body. One was two inches above the
right nipple. Another was four inch
es below the right nipple. Another
to the left and near the bottom of
the breast bone. One bnllet passed
through the feshy part of the left
arm, another through the upper por-
ton of the right arm and near the
shoulder. This bullet broke the bone,
part of which protruded through the
flesh. Another bullet entered the
right thigh. The top of the ear was
clipped off also.
There were two wounds in the
woman's body, but these were made
by one bullet The bullet entered
near the left nipple. passed through
the cartilage Of the fourth rib, through
COatinued on Fifth P00e.