Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-05-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND SUICIDE.  On Tuesday morning a slice:king tragedy was enacted at Hackney, London. Shortly Om/ one o'clock an alarm was rained in the neighhonrhood that them was something wrong at No. 17, Amherst-road, and on the police entering the bonen they touni in the front room on the first Houi the hotly of Arthur Jennings, aged 15, on the bed, the youth having died limn the effecte of pistol woundat On proceeding to the bank room the officers discovered Elena. Morgan lying dead on the fluor, with blood trickling from her teen and aide, while Thomas Morgan, her husband, was sitting on the bed groaning, with a bullet wound in the abdomen and groin. He was pat tly insensible, and there wan • involver by his elide. The mall was conveyed to the Gel man hospital, i where he died on Wednesday. No !season is lannigued for the commiwoun at the crime. , Low inquiry shows that Morgan, whole about fifty years of age, and keeper of a coffee-hoinio, had. • stroke at par neyeis some months sieue, which practioally deprived him of speech and the use of the left hand. 11 in stated he ha. frequently threatened to , strike his wite and her eon, and the general opinion in the tonality is that he wee mentally delimited. The 'hots apparently were not heard, ' but the Om woman raised an Marie by violently ringing a bell. By the time help arrived ehe was found dead on the floor, attired only iii her night. , dress. l'i estimably she beard a noise in her etas room, aud was shot while in the act of preenedieg to his assistance. The youth's face was scorched nod blackened, and the pistol bad evidently been bred at clue" quarters. An lemma wee held on Thuredey teskeititing tie death al Themes Morgan, 56, Emma Moron, 46, and Arthur 'leanings, 15. From the evideuou it appeared Piet the deceased man Morgan, who was the proprietor id a coffee-house in emlieletroa-1, Hackney, abet his wife and stepson on Tuesday last, and afterwards committed suicide by !shooting himself in the 'bitumen. A sister of Morgan deposed that the deceased's brein had been affected by II paralytic atioke. Emma Morgan was his second wife. Witness had never heard hint tai eaten to take hip life, but he had cctessionally been in such a state at mind that he i could not be responsible for his actions. A sou-inlaw gave corioburistiv evidence. Before the I par elytic stroke the .de eased dead been very good '' Ito his wife. On ,it-inlay witness sod his , wife went with Aro. lateen to Old Southgate. Morgan was in the bestuf spirits dosing the any, but .n the way lt: me tie became disagreeable and swanked his wife's face. He was moo way the worse for drink. Other evidences woak the effect that on the morning of Tuesday last fife servants in the empoy of the decim-ed were awakened by the ringing of • bell. On proceeding to Mr. MurIran's room they heard groaning, but found the door looked. la another room the stepson wee found dead. The police stated that Mrs. Morgan was bound dead and the husband wounded, He died at the hospital. The jury returned a verdict that Emma Morgan end Arthur Jennings were shot by Thomas -Morgan, and that the latter, while temporarily insane, committed suicide.  imaated