Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-01
BAPTIZED HIS HONOR IN BLOOD An Injured Husbands Awful and
 Swift Vengeance. WIFE AND HER PARAM0UR
Get Their Deaths From the Mouth of His UH-
 erring Pistol.
THE WIFE SHOT AS SHE FLED IN TERROR.
Governor of Kentucky-All the Par ties Prominent-The Premier
 Sensation of Louisville.

Louisville, April 30-Archie Brown, the governors son and secretary, paid with his life for Jason with another mans wife today. 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 sensational in the history Of the state on account of the prominence or the persons involved and the circum- stances surrounding the case. It oc- cured at 12:35 o'clock in an evil resort kept by colored woman, at 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 5. Smiths Madison street house. They were admitted and immediately repaired to the upstairs front room, which had been previously engaged.
 Thirty minutes later a tall dark haired man knocked at the door of the house and was admitted He engaged the front lower room.
 The man closed all the doors and a few minutes later a commotion was heard above, followed by succession Of pistol shots. Then there was a hurried movement down stairs as Mrs. Gordon fled from the scene A few minutes later a shot rang out and she fell dead on the porch in the rear yard. Gordon left the house immediately.
 Browns corpse was found in the up- stairs room.
 The following telegram was taken from his pocket:
 Louisville, Ky, April 3O.-Archie D. Brown Governors Private Secretary, Frankfort, Ky: Don't write any more Come Tuesday. Meet me at s., 10 a. m.
 "P M."
 It was pursuant to this telegram that Brown met Mrs. Gordon this afternoon. It 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 3S-caliber revolver, which was found empty after the tragedy. Six bullets pierced Browns body and three that of Mrs. Gordon.
 The bed was covered with blood.
 Just what part, if any, Mrs Gordon took in the fatal encounter only her hus- band is alive to say. The walls of the rooms are smeared with blood and filled with bullet holes.
 
 mour was arrested by Officers Reilly and Pappille while getting into his buggy. He exclaimed: "I shot both of them. l caught them in the act. They are both dead. Come with me and I'll show you where they are.'
 Gordon said to Officer Pappille on the way to the jail that he had suspected the couple for some time. About a week ago he found that his suspicious were cor rect. He went to the house and found them. He drew his pistol and fired five shots at Brown, by which time the gov ernor's son had his own pistol in play. Brown shot twice at Gordon. 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 bot tom. 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 Under taker King. The body presented horri- ble appearance, being covered with blood from head to foot. There were three gun shot wounds in the breast, one of them being over the region of the heart. and 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 cellar doop in the yard, face downward Her hair was loose and was hanging in a tangled mass.
 Mamie Mattingly, the colored woman says that Brown and Mrs Gordon had been accustomed to visit the house on Saturday 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 grand father was Judge Zacariah Wheat of the court of appeals of Kentucky. Fulton Gordon at the time of his mar riage was one of the best known men about town. He was then clerk at the Galt house of this city. and had acquain- tances in every part of the country. They eloped about ten years ago. Short ly afterward they moved to Frankfort, where he became proprietor of the Ken yon hotel. This he continued to run until the Worlds fair began, when he sold out his establishment and moved to Chicago, where he became manager of the Turkish baths in the Palmer house.
 "Justifable Homicide.'' The coroner held an injuest over the bodies this afternoon. and the jury rem dered a verdict of justifable homicide It is understood, however. that Gordon wiH be held for a formal preliminary ex-