A HACKNEY HORROR.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

A HACKNEY HORROR.

A painful tragedy was enacted at a coffee-house in Amhurst Eoad, Hackney, England, between one and two o'clock one morning recently. No. 17 is a coffee-house of tho better class, and is well known to ll.iekney people. The tonant, Tboraa.s Morgan, is a man who has been suffering for some time from weakness of intellect and bursts of passion, said to be tho result of a paralytic stroke Arrangements were in progress for him to be taken to a lunatic asylum, and the papers were complete, all but having the signature of a magistrate. This action of the family was, however, taken to late. Apparently after the excitement of a day's outing, Morgan was overpowered by one of his fits of passion, and, after the family had retired for the night, shot his wife and stepson, Alfred Jennings, in their bedrooms, and inflicted such injuries upon himself, by firing revolver shots into his abdomen, as to cause his death. After being out with his wife the greater part of the previous day at Stamford Hill and Wood Green, Morgan returned home about 10 o'clock. He retired to his bedroom shortly after reaching home, but subsequent to a family quarrel. The wife and stepson followed a little later. The servants also retired early. At halfpast one in the morning: they were roused by hearing the ringing of bells, evidently rung by some of the people staying at the house, who had heard the reports of the revolver and the groans of the suffering man. Tho servants thus alarmed ran to the room of the stepson, aud found the poor lad lying on his bed dead. He had deen killed by a revolver shot, discharged in his face apparently, while he lay asleep. This terrifying discovery caused the servants to seek assistance before entering Mrs. Morgan's room, whence the groans of a person in agony were issuing. The police constable who entered the room found the body of lire. Morgan in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds in the neck. She was quite dead, though warm. On the other side of the bed lay Morgan, groaning in terrible agony. Dr. Whito, the divisional surgeon, was called, and with Chief-Inspector Bonp examined the surrounding. Morgan was discovered to have shot himself in the abdomen, a portion of the entrails protruding from the wound. Hiß condition was so critical that he was instantly conveyed to the German Hospital. Near where the man was found the police discovered a sixchambered revolver, four barrels having been emptied. The names of the deceased aro Emma Morgan, aged 48 years, and Arthur Jennings, aged 15 years