Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-18
THE LATE MURDER AND BANK ROBBERY IN JACKSON. TENN.

inSt., glVeS a dStalled statement oI tne late tragedy in Jackson, together with the proceedings of the citizens. which we publish below:
 Our usually quiet and well behaved city had its sensibilities most painfully and intensely shocked on Friday morn ing last, (4th inst, by the Infringement of the most -blooded, wicked, diaboIical act (perpetrated in this place on the night of the 3d which ever occurred within the limits of our county.
 During the absence of Mir. E. F. Me Knight, the Cashier of lhe Branch Union Bank at Jackson, on business at Memphis, Mir. George F. Miller, his clerk, was left as usual in charge of the business and keys oT the bank. Mir. MIIIers lodging place was in one of the rooms of the banking house; Le was young man se- lected for the position which be occupied for his intelligence, correct department and unquestionable integrity; he was
 never known on any former occasion
 (even for the accommodation Of his best i friend to depart from fixed rule of the
 Cashier, never to issue bank check to any applicant except during banking hours, but the inference from all the facts
 and circumstances gathered by jurors,
 bank-oficers and citizens at large, Is that
 the persuasion and influence of some one,
 so far unknown, induced the young man
 in the kindness of his heart to depart from ! this rule. and furnish a check after night, (probably about 9 or 10 o'clock certainly before bedtime. The check book, which is always locked up in the vault at the end
 of the days business, was found on the desk. Mr. Miller was evidently engaged
 in the act of filling up check, and was stricken down by blow with heavy hammer, constantly kept in bank for the purpose of defacing returned checks, this blow, which crushed the skull, and broke into the mass of brain, was about the crown of the head, and no doubt aimed from behind-another blow ortwo was in- aicted in front, also fracturing the skull. The vault, and safe within the vault, be- ing now unlocked and fully exposed, the dend proceeded to the completion of his hellish design, by taking packages of bank notes and gold coin, amounting, as we learn 10 near $24, ,000 Before doing this he took the precaution to tear out the leaf in the check-book. on which the clerk had been writing. After finishing the deed, he locked the door between the bank and lodging room, placed the key under the pillow of poor Miller's bed, and walked off without leaving a trail 10 lead to his detection. We have faith in the oft quo- ted proverb of Shakespeare that. l" Mur- der will out" and all the effort that deep and general public anxiety, tue most ag- onizing and intense sympathy of friends, backed by ample pecunary reward can command, has been and will pc employed to ferret out the perpetrator of this enor- mity.
 A painful reflection connected with the sad affair is, that no negroe, no stranger could have been the author of the dark deed, but that the sin. rests upon the head and the blood upon the skirts of some citizen of our town, who alone could have used the influence 10 command poor Georges services al this unusual hour.
 The following proceedings were had at a general meeting of the citizens of Jack son, held at the court house on Wednes- day morning last-a meeting we'll at- tended by citizens, young and old, for the purpose of adopting tbe most efficient measures to extend and continue the in- vestigation of all facts and circumstances which may tend to the discovery and con viction of the perpetrator of the late mur- der and bank robbery in this place. Judge | A. 0. W. Totten was called to the chair, and Dr. A. Jackson was appointed Sec retaFy. Addresses were made by the chairman and Messrs Scurlock and Ly- on, with the view of explaining the ob- Ieeis of the meeting and to arouse the assembly 10 just appreciation of the inn poftance of the oclasiond, and the neces- sny which existed and which appealed oudly to each and every good citizen to by all personal diligence and Decuniary aid in his power to bring tue offender tolight and to punishment
 PROCEEDINGS.
 RESOLVED, That a committee of seven citi- | .ens be appointed by the chairman, with | bower to appoint subcommittee in each yard. This committee of seven to be select d from list of fourteen names, to be sug- | rested by committee of three, to be select d by the chairman.
 Thereon, Rfessrs. James Caruthers, Samuel | ]. Hays and Dr. Robert Fenner, committee, lppolnted by the chairman. reported fourteen lames, from which list the following inves- gating committee was appointed by the chairman, yiz.
 James $. Lyon, Esq, chairman of com nittee Dr. A. Jackson, Col. T. P. ScnrIock, dervey Brown, Esq, M. P. D. W. Conger, Capt. Wm. Alexander, Mir. Martin CartweIl, committee.
 RESOLVED, That each citizen will aid by F .yery means in his power to ferret out the ,riminal, and that he will sustain the said