The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10
SHOOTS DOWN
 POSTMASTER Insane Man Wounds
 MT. Morgan. MACKEY THEN KILLS SELF Dramatic Crime in Street of New
 York. stenographer's Oniy Grievance Was Due to Handling His MaiI-- Had Escaped from . Lu-
 natic Asylum.
 

New York, Nov. 9.--Postmaster Ed ward M Morgan of this city was shot down in the street as he was leaving his home in l46th Street for the post office this morning by Eric H. B. Maekey. a stenographer enipolyed by downtown law firm. who then shot and instantly killed himself. The single bullet which struck Mir.
 Morgan entered at the right side of the abdomen and passed out at the left side without penetrating the walls
 There was no internal bleeding and
 there is every Likelihood that the
 wounded man will recover.
 The only excuse known for the
 sfaooting was that Mackey had conn
 piained to the authorities at the post ofaca in washington that his mail had
 been tempered with and that some
 one turned out an electric light when he was reading by 1t in the corridor of the postof1ce. Maekey had receiv- ed a reply that there was no evidence
 of tampering with his mail and that
 the incident of the electric light was an accident
 Maekeys employers. the firm of Hunt, Hill A Betts. declared they could account for the tragedy only by the theory that Mackey was Insane. Be- sides a revolver it was found that Mackey carried dagger and a slung shot
 Mir. Morgan had left his home in
 West I4eth Street for his office and had just reached the corner ait Broad-
 way when the man stepped in front or
 him. There were several persons
 within a few feet of the two men. but none of them heard word spoken and the first intimation they had or
 trouble was when shot rang out ana Mr. Morgan fell to the ground with bullet through his stomach, lie lost consciousness immediately.
 Haackey KiIIs Self. E For an instant after the shot had haay, fred the assatIant stood looking down upon his victim. Then he rais- cd the still smoking revolver, ena, pressing 1t against his forehead, pnheo tha lrlgner. The bullet did not cause \ Satai wound and once more and then a third time the man sent q bullet crashing against his skull The third baII pefletrated the brain and the man fell dead. .,,... etIlI 'cIenched in his hand. several per sons who had witnessed the douoie shooting, rushed up to the assistahce oS Mir. Morgan. whom some of them had recognized. A physician was call
 Ad from house nearby and was wlth tba wounded man within few mo- ments after the first shot had been fired. ,,,to ,,t. ovvn
 home. physicians were hastily sum. mnned and 1t was found that the puIiel
 had merely passed through the nsshy ,soh nortIon of the abdomen for eiSnt iheh- ss infIicting a superficial wound.
 Mr Morgan reEained consciousness
 n,lIIe the physicians were working on bim. He said he never saw ms assalI- ant until he confronted him this morn ing He knows of no reason Tor ths attack, he said.
 The shooting occurred in the pres ence of Miss Dorothy Morgani the I4- vear-old daughter of the postmaster. who was accompanying him to the sub | way station on her way to school
 Mackey had been pacing up and down l the sidewalk near the corner of Broad way and 146th Street for two hours before the shooting When Mfr. Nor
 gan and his daughter left their home and walked toward Broadway Mackey turned down the street and met them.
 Evidently he had never seen the post master before. As he met Mir. Morgan he asked: Are you Postmaster Nor
 Ean?'
 At Morgans affirmative reply. Mac
 key drew his revolver and fired. | As two witnesses of the shooting came running up. Mackey lay down on ] the sidewalk and sent one bullet into | his head and another into his heart.
 He was dead when the first man | reached him.
 | Among the papers found in Mackey's s
 pockets was an envelope addressed to | Miss Anna Mackey, care training
 school for nurses, Anna Jacques Hos pttal Hewburyport, Mass" The enve- | lone was empty A slingshot and a
 dagger were found in Mackey's pock- | cts.
 Mackey was an Englishman, 21 years
 old. He had been in the employ of | Hunt Hill and Betts lawyers, of 1851 1 Broadway for about four years. He ] came from England nine years ago, | worked for a time in Boston and then came to this city.
 1 At the office where he was employed | in this city Mackey was held in high I esteem and his employers say they are | completely at loss to explain his act.
 The only clue thus far found which
 may have q bearing on the tragedy is contained In 0 number of letters found
 in Mackey's desk. These indicate that about a year ago he had complained to the postmaster that some of his mail had not been properly delivered. The correspondence was signed by one of the regular department clerks Mackey's employers say that so far l aslthey know he never met or had any
 dealings with Postmaster Morgan. l Crime Was Planned. Mackey left q letter in his rooms
 In which he declared his act was the last protest of a poor man against the custom of never-enduring laws against prominent or wealthy people"
 Mackey stated also that revenge was one of the motives which animated him and that he knew he was not morally | justified in killing the postmaster and that men would consider his act that | of an insane man. He asserted that the postmaster had withheld a regis
 tered letter addressed to Mackey un-
 der a trade name and had insisted that
 he produce a certificate showing his right to receive such mall.
 Mackey declared that he was recon ciled for killing himself because of his | falling eye sight which he said would
 leave him only a bare existence for the
 rest of his life and that he chose the postmaster as his victim because he
 was the most prominent man who had l antagonized him.
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