Show LUNATIC SHOOTS FAILS TO Kill New York Postmaster Wound Wounded j ed in Abdomen in iii i Front of His Home SUICIDE OF MAN MAM WITH GUN HAD ONCE BEEN SEEN INMATE OF IN INSANE INSANE INSANE SANE ASYLUM New York Nov m 9 Postmaster Ed Edward Edward Edward ward W tv Morgan of this city was shot down In the street treet as he was leaving his house in street for the post postoffice postoffice office this morn morning ins by b Eric H B Mackey a stenographer employed ed by b n a downtown law firm who tho then shot and an killed himself Th The single bullet which struck Mr Morgan entered at the side of oC the tine ab and passed out at the left side without penetrating the walls walla There ro was Wa as no internal bleeding and there Is 19 every eYe likelihood that the wounded man will recover I The only excuse known for tor the shoot hoot shooting hootIng ing lug was that Mackey had complained to be ibe t J authorities at SIne he postoffice in iii InY Washington Y that his mall mail had been tampered t with and nd that someone turned out an electric light lI ht when he heis nils was is reading fay by b it in the tine corridor of oC the die postoffice Y Believed to Be Insane Mackey 1 hall had received d a reply that there was no evidence of tampering 1 with his mall mai and that the incident of the light was an accident Mackeys e s employers the tire finn firm of Hunt Hill HUI Betts BettI declared they could account for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the tragedy only onh on the theory theo that Mackey was insane Besides a rc re revolver volver oher it was found that Mackey car carried ned ried a dagger and a Mackey was as an nn Englishman 31 years old and he be formerly was wa employed ed in n tJ Boston The shooting took place in the pre preg ense of Miss Dorothy Morgan the 14 11 1 earold daughter of the postmaster who w o was a ing him to t the he subway station Uon on her way war to school I Had Been Lying in Wait I Mackey had been pacing up and down the sidewalk near the corner of Broadway and street for tor two hours before beCore the shooting When Mr Ir Morgan and an his daughter left their home and walked toward Broadway Broad ay Mackey turned down the side street streetS and met them Evidently he had never neverseen neverseen seen the postmaster before for as he hemet hemet hemet met Mr Ir Morgan organ he asked Are ure you Postmaster Morgan organ At Mr Ir Morgans organ affirmative e reply Mackey drew r his re revolver volver and fired one Mot the th post pORt The wounded man fell fen to tl the sidewalk and as two wit witnesses witnesses nesses nes eg came running up Mackey lay day down on the sidewalk opened his hi vest and sent one bullet into his head ani another entered entert his heart He itt was dead lead when the tine first firt man reached him j Wound Not Dangerous Danger us Mr rr Ir Morgan was carried carrel carrl ll into his own home physicians ph were hastily sum summoned summoned summoned and anti it was 3 found that the bullet had hl merely passed through the tile fleshy sh portion of the abdomen for tor eight Inches inflicting a superficial wound Mr rr Ir Morgan declared that he lie did not know Mackey and never saw sa him be before before before fore It was wa learned teamed that thata a man answering Mackeys s description had called at Mr Morgans home three times during the past palt ten days da s I Mr Ir Morgan had been connected with the postal service in N ew e York Tork for more than a quarter of oC a century He began his mis career as a letter I carrier carri r years ago od nid worked his way to the top Last year ear he was pro promoted promoted from assistant postmaster to the position of postmaster to succeed d William R It l Wilcox who became b lame a pub puh public lie lic service commissioner Mr Ir Morgan is the thc Republican leader in the Wash Washington WashIngton Washington ington Heights g assembly ass m t district Had Been in Asylum Boston Nov Nox S Eric H B Mackey who shot Postmaster Morgan organ in New NewYork York Tork City today and then killed him himself himself self elf was wa a son of ot H W IV B Mackey of Cambridge e who Is enraged in literary Ut work Mackey formerly lived led In Cam Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge bridge where he was employed ed at the factory factor of the Boston Woven Hose and i Rubber Rubb r company He was as born near Dublin Ireland and ancl was waR about 15 vears years old when hel his hi parents came ame to tu Boston About Ab ut six years rears ago he hot shot a fellow fetlow because of ot 0 a fancied grievance and md after trial was ad adJudged adjudged adjudged Judged insane and committed l to the Worcester asylum from which he es escaped e coped cape in 1001 |