Tri-weekly union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-186?, 1866-10-27
An Outrageous Affair.
III. j. Jackson, of BOiOIiIlg Green
Ky., arrested for Rape.
HE Is REMANDED TO JAIL FOR EX
ANIMATION.

HE Is REMANDED TO JAIL FOR EX
ANIMATION.
Complaint was entered before Esquire w
+. MEAcHAM, yesterday, by young lad.
named MARY A. HoUK, charging H. J.JACK
son with having committed a rape upon he
person on Thursday night at the Planters
Hotel.
A warrant was placed in hands of officer,
RYAN and STARKEY, who arrested JACKSON
and brought him before the Justice for pre-
liminary examination.
Col. JOHN C. BURCH, Judge PARKER, an(
READY appeared for the prosecution. Messrs
WILLo. HAYWOOD and G. SCOTT SYMNIE
| for the defence.
The testimony was not concluded, wher
the court adjourned until 10 o'clock this
morning, and the defendant remanded tc
Jail.
The peculiar circumstances surrounding
the unfortunate girl impel us to give her
statement from the time she left her fathers
home, and the reason OF her departure:
She says her name is MARY A. HoUK
that she is the daughter Of JOHN II. HovK,
who live three miles from Hardyville, and
ten miles from Mumfordsville, Hart county,
Kentucky. Not having money TO purchase
some articles she desired from the store, she
forged an order for SIS worth of goods on a
country merchant by the name of HANDY.
Her crime was found out, and her brother
hushed the matter up by paying the money
to the store-keeper. The neighbors got
hold of the affair, and she was told
that the grand jury of Hart county
would indict her for fogery, Notwithstanding
the settlement She became greatly fright
ened at the consequences that might arise
from her rash act, and made up her mind to
secretly leave her fathers house, and seek
safety by flight. Her intention, she states,
was to go to some relatives near Augusta,
Ga. For this purpose, she got up last We'd
nesday morning, took horse belonging to
her brother, and started toward Bowling
Green, which place she reached on Wednes-
day night, riding distance of fifty miles Ar
irving at Bowling Green, she stopped at the
boarding house Of a Mr.. SMITH. On Thurs
day morning she sold the horse for twenty
five dollars, and said her reason for selling
him SO cheap was that she expected her
brother would follow her, and could get his
mag" without having to pay more than she
received. She had noticed JACKSON at Mr..
SMITHS, but had not spoken to him.
She left Bowling Green on the one o'clock
train, Thursday, for Nashville, and after the
cars had gone a short distance, she notice
Mr.. JACKSON on board He came and
asked her if he could occupy a portion of
her seat, and she assented. He confined his
conversation to politics and the war, telling
her he had been a Colonel in the rebel ar
my under General MORGAN. He asked her
where she was going, and said he was going
as far as Nashville. He prolered his SER
vices to escort her to a hotel, which were &C
cepted. On the arrival of the cars at the
depot, they took a hack and drove to the
Stacy House, where he registered the names
of al. J. JACKSON and MARY J. BILLITT,"
without adding any place of residence.
He invited her to attend the theatre, and
after supper they repaired to the Old Theatre
to witness DILLoN's "Belphegor," which, it
appears, did not interest Mr.. j., and they
left before the play was over. On stepping
outside the building, Miss HoUK asked him
if they should ride to the hotel, and he told
her they would have to walk, as the hack
men would not go anywhere until the
theatre was out. While walking along, he
pretended to have forgotten the name of the
hotel they were stopping at She told him
it was the Stacey. He said no more until
they arrived in front Of the Planters Hotel.
They went into the Office, and JACKSON en-
He was asked if he wanted lodging,
and he replied aflirmatively. He regis
tered the names here as we have
ascertained of II. J. JACKSON and wife"
He then went to the lady and told her the
room was ready. She started with the
clerk, not knowing that JACKSON was along,
or what his intention were. The first she
saw of him was after the clerk had set the
light down, and then she noticed he was in
the room with her, and had closed and
locked the door. Frightened nearly to
death, she asked him what he meant. He
said it was " all right" that he sympathized
with her because she was alone, and he was
going 10 protect her. On her attempting to
leave the room, he placed himself against
the door and said she should not go out
She begged and plead with him to leave
the room, but he refused, and stated his in
tention to remain there all night Finding all
endeavors to get clear of him unavailing, she
begged him to occupy the lounge and let
her alone. He threw his arms around her
several times, and tried to persuade her to
submit TO his hellish desires. Finally, find
ing that he could not accomplish his ends by
overcoming her repugnance to the revolving
proposals he made, he blew the light out,
and proceeded TO use of force. She strug-
gled with him until completely exhausted,
when he succeeded in throwing her back
on the bed and ravishing her person. In
a strange city, and among strangers, she
felt that she was completely under his con-
troll. He staid with her all night and viola.
ted her as often as four times. lie had un-
dressed himself after the light was out. She
had not taken of her clothes, nor did she
undress during the night. The next morn
ing JACKSON was taken into custody rs
suspicious character, when Miss HOUK made
her siatementand had him arrested for rape.