Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-09
ATLANT|AN SHOOTS
WOMAN To DEATH
AND KILLS HIMSELF
Tragedy Occurs in Down.
town Store Death
Notes Bare Quarrel

A double homicide in the store at
125 Edgewood avenue shortly be.
fore o'clock Thursday afternoon
snuffed out two lives, Mrs. Fannie
Briscoe, employed in the store, dy- i
ing at Grady hospital within less
than VITO hours after she had been
fatally wounded by w. r. L. Nor /
gan, of 266 Woodward avenue, who
Immediately afterwards turned the
pistol on himself and died before
medical aid could reach him.
Mrs. Briscoe died at Grady hospital
two hours after she was shot with.
out regaining consciousness. Mrs.
w. E. jenkins, who said she was q
first cousin of the slain woman, and
who gave her address as 971a Gar
nett street, was with Mrs. Briscoe !
when she died. Mrs. Jenkins said /
Mrs. Briscoe resided with her.
Mrs. jenkins said she did not |
know Morgan, and was unaware /
that Mrs. Briscoe knew him.
The man left note directing that |
% East Alabama street be notified. I
This is tn estore of Ed Matthews & !
Co., where it was said that Morgan !
had been employed up until about |
month ago. More recently, it was
said, he had been employed at the
United States National Insurance
company, in the Austell building.
At both places, reporte- were
told that Morgan and Mrs. Briscoe /
had been keeping company for some
time, and at the Mathews store it
was said that he had related how he
and tn ewoman had become es-
tranged several weeks ago.
Tells Mother Goodby
The following notes were found in
the dead mans pocket:
Letter No. 1:
Goodbye mother, Walker and
Mrs. Kennedy. l am sorry to leavA
you. / want to be buried in the
country at Corinth church. My
niece will tell you all about it. Fare Z
well QMorgan.''
Letter No. 2. (No signature): T.
Call Ed Matthews & Co., 23 East
Alabama street, Main 0027. j. NJ
Hirsch, on Morietta street, holds a
$1,000 bank stock of mine. G. c.
Wray knows all about it."
Letter No. g.
O-f-Z4. ain IlTeu VI llL6. Iu0
world has gone back on me. Call j.
S. Mitchell.s works for the r. & P.
company. Call Victor Haydan, works
for the Thomas Cusack company.
Call my nephew at BucEannon, Ga,
w. e. Morgan. am now at zee
Woodward avenue If ! don't ever
see you any more God bless and save
you.
(Signed) "W. r. L. MORGAN. 4
''P. S.-Send my books to 707 Aus.
tel building. l hope God will take
my soul. / have just stood this as
long as 1 can. Fannie Briscoe is the
cause of all. / can't stand the way
she has done me. That's all. Good
by to all"
According to frinds, Morgan was
about forty years old The bull
let entered Eis temple and he was
lying on the floor, the gun at his
side, breathing feebly when Albert
Lovinger, of 354 Sims street, ran into
the store after hearing the shots. Mr..
Lovinger lad stopped his automobile I
nearby to repair a blowout.
Mr.. Lovinger told the police he
heard woman scream, Don't do Z
that, don't do thaty' A pistol shot
ASAOWCo, lS oCdCSu, anu he QdSU6Q
into the store just in time to sec
Morgan standing in the middle of
tn efloor with a pistol to his head. I
AS he entered, Morgan pulled the /
trigger, Mr.. Lovinger said. He add !
ed that Morgan had the pistol over
his head pointing downward.
Police on Scene n
Police Sergeant Bob Waggoner, [
who was passing on a trolley car,
alighted and ran into the store when
he heard the shots. He was one Of !
the first to reach the scene, closely
followed by call officers from police /
headquarters, the Grady ambulance
and other ambulances. A cro~Id
quickly gathered.
Mr.. Biggers, the proprietor of the
store, known as the b. & B. ready
towear establishment, said he had
left the store only few minutes
before the shooting. He returned
about fifteen minutes afterward 4
Mr.. Biggers told reporters that
the man had been keeping company
with Mrs. Briscoe for several ,
months. He said that she had been
married twice and that her present
husband is the warden of a Georgia