ybor city justice
105 years ago…
May 30, 1901 – A love triangle results in a mur der-suici de outside a boarding house on 1704 ½ Fourteenth Street in Ybor City. Morgan W. Kersey shot W.F. Bryant twice in the back for allegedly having an affair with his wife Annie, the landlady of the boarding house where Bryant resided. After shooting Bryant, Kersey then turned his pi stol on himself. According to Mrs. Kersey, her husband was jealous of Bryant and had sent word earlier in the week that he would k ill the two of them.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
Tags: citizens, crime, neighborhood, on this day, tampa
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