Macon, Ga., Jan 12 - Mrs. Effie L. Carson, wife of a railroad machinist, formerly the wife of Ernest Thompson, a printer, shot and instantly killed Robert A. Rigsby, a student in a business college here. The tragedy took place in the law office of Marmaduke G. Bayne, an attorney, to whom she had gone for advice. She shot the man twice in the head and once through the heart. She emptied her revolver, the other shots going wild. She at once delivered herself to the Sheriff, going across the street with the smoking weapon in her hand. She was promptly placed in jail, but was subsequently releaded on a bond of $1,000.

The coroner's jury found a verdict of voluntary manslaughter.

Mrs. Carson was a teacher of telegraphy in another business college. She said that Rigsby had circulated stories unpleasing to her character.