The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-12
POSTMASTER
OF NEW YORK
IS SHOT DOWN
EDWARD M. MORGAN VICTIM OF AT
TEMPTED MURDER BY LUNATlC
WHO KILLS HIMSELF.
BULLETS FIRED ON BROADWAY.
Assailant Felt Grieved Because Light
Was Turned Out in Postoftice When
He Was Reading.
TRAGEDY CAUSES A SENSATION.

NEW YORK. Nov. 9-Postmaster
Edward NJ Morgan Of this city was
shot down in the street as he was leaV-
Ing his house On West 1fGth street for
the postoticc this morning by Eric Ii,
b. Mackey, Il stcnographer employed by
q down town law firm, who then shot
and instantly killed himself. The single
bullet which struck Mr.. Morgan enter
the right side Of the abdomen and
passed ont at the left side without pene-
trating the walls. There was not in
tcrnal bleeding and there is every like
ihDod that the wounded man will re
cover.
The only excuse known tof the shoot
ng was that Mackey had complained to
the authorities at the postoiiice in Wash
ngjon that his mail had been tempered
with and that some one turned out an
electric light when he was reading by II
in the corridor Of the postoflice. Mackey
had received reply that there was no
evidence Of tampcring with his mail,
and that the incident Of the electric
Light was an accident.
Assaiant Was Insane.
Mackcy's employers, the firm Of Hunt,
Hill Il Belts, declared they could ac-
count for the tragedy only on the theory
,iat Mackcy was insane. Besides re
volycr, it was found that Mackey car
ried a dagger and slung shot.
Eric II. Il. Mackey was a son of II.
W. b. Mackey of Cambridge, Mass,
who is engaged in literary work. lie
formerly lived in Cambridge where he
was employed at the factory of the Bos-
ton Woven Hose d Rubber company.
He was born near Dublin, ireland, and
was about II years old when his parents
came To America. About six years ago
he shot fellow cmployc because of
funcind grievance and after trial was adj
judged insane and committed TO the
Worcester asylum from which he es-
capped in 1904.
Girl Sees Shooting.
The shooting took place in the presence
IF Miss Dorothy Morgan, the lIyear-
I'D daughter Of the postmaster, who was
accompanying him to the subway sta
ton on her way to school. Mackey had
been pacing UP and down the sidewalk
near the corner of Broadway and HON
street for two hours before the shooting.
When Mr. Morgan and his daughter left
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way '''' ny '"',,,D 'D' H., naI ,r,,ar
seen the postmaster before. for, as lie
met Mr.. Morgan he asked: Are you
Postmaster Morgan| At Mr.. Morgan $
affirmative reply. Mackey drew his re
volvcr and fired one shot into the post
masters abdomen. The wounded man
fell To the sidewalk, and as two witness
as Of the shooting came running up,
Nockcv Law down on the sidewalk,
.opcncd his vest and sent one bullet into
hi. head ana another into his heart He
WAS dead when the first man reached
him
Never "a" maChey Delo'e'
Mr. MORGAN was carried into his own
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aHd " WIS '"N"" '"'t INV u"I''I H"p
merely passed through tn" ileshy por-
tiuu If the abdomen for eight inches, in
air,iug a supcrliriaI wound. Mr. Nor
I'LL, J.,Ior,I tlot he did NOT know
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shooting II was learned mat man an
sw"riug Mackcys description had called
N MIR. Mgrgnu'S home three times during
tho past ten DAVIS in his absence.
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