Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-23
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Correspondence OF the AlrAandrlh uaZcllc.
HaRRIsoNBURd, Va, May 10th, 1S13.--All
aboard. The bell sounds and 10 few minutes
I was out of old Alexandria en- route for Staln-
ron vim o,donsville Soon after passing FAIR
fax station was asleep. At that time sunday
night it was clear and beautiful ami the lndlca-
tions were that the morrow would be beautl-
fullv clear. When again came to CONSCIOUS
ness. viz: awake, it was at the call OF the
brakcsman, "Nadsun Run; passengers for the
Cbesapeake T. Ohio wake up In a few min
utes we were landed at Gordonsvil!c with thirty
five minutes to wait for the Western bound ex-
rrrss train. The night had changed in the
m # three hours and all was cold, dark and
cI,udv. The express train only stops 1T Char
lottesyllc, but tonight when W. reached kcs-
wick we halted The cause was, that the cars
Of the Orange read lay directly i'll our way, and
az they would not 60 OH, we could not. Ii Sce!us
that the traiu does not leave huntington lOr
the east on Sunday morning, (heswlck Is the
usual place OF mccting) aud as the conductors
Of the Orange train are not officially Notified OF
this fact, they have to iay over until the time
allowed has cxpireI After Il while we started
off again and stopped at Charlottesville. Now
we oniv had TWO more stoppagcs between THIS
Mace and Staunton. We should not have had
one. First we left the last car about two miles
70 the rear before We found it out, and next
the air brakes would not work: and We had to
make them. This train runs faster than any
other in the State, viz at the rate OF thirty
miles an hour, but on account OF our various
delays we had to make lhrty-Evc miles an
hour, and it was very rapid travelling. The
time between Richmond and Huntington, III
Guiding stoppagcs, Is eighteen hours; the DIS
lance 425 miles. Arriving at Staunton at t p.
m. after few hours rest we started at 49,
o. clock in buggy for l1arrsonburg through
the now pouring rain. The distance Is twenty
five miles over one OF the best roads IN the
State and on down grade. made it IN three
hours and fifteen mloutcs. The crops OF wheat
and grass arc looking decidedly poor for this
season and section, the ralus having kept vegt-
tatiOn nearly Que month behind. HE cOru
crop is up in several places along the road, but
in the majority OF Instances 1t Is not yet plant
ed The fist persons met here were Dir. tobt.
Ice, who has charge of division Of the Val
lev road from this place to Staunton, ana Mr.
Berthe Fowle of our city, whn is employed on
the engineer corps undcr Mr. lee. To-day is
court day here, but court day at Harrisonburg,
the closing paragraph of rambling letter. ".
TIE DOUBLE MURDER EXPLAINED The
Eigth ward mystery is at last explained without
the finding of another dead body. Captain
Mccullough, in company with Sergeant ShuZ",
If the Eighth precinct, this afternoon Was in
formed that JAS Jackson the allcgcd murderer
of Mary Jane Sullivan, was in a basement on
South Fifth avenue, with his throat cut and II
diving condition. These officers immediately
set out with their Informant to ascertain the
truth OF the statement, and were conducted to
the basement on the corner of Houston street
and South Fifth avenue, a resort OF thieves.
There they found Jackson 10 very feeble con
dition, with a cash in his throat about fix
inches long. Jackson was removed to the sta
ton house DR.. White was then summoned,
and after an examination of the wound gave 1t
as his opinion that he would recover, and Or
dered his removal to Bellevue Hospital.
On being questioned in the station house.
Jackson admitted that he struck the deceased
three or four times while in the street, but de-
MES having killed her. He says that he took
her home and left her there, and then went
out When he returned he found her lying at
the foot of the stairs dead, and is Of the oplr-
ion that she fell down stairs alter he left her.
He then carried her up stairs aud laid her in
the bed and left the place fearing that he
would be arrested as her murderer.
1t is presumed that he returned to No ~,
Sullivan street, and while in the clubhouse there
attempted to commit suicide by cutting his
throat with the razor found. Some friends Of
his, of whom he refused to speak, must have
then carried him to the basement where he
was found, and there LETT him without medical
attendance The man who gave the iutorma-
t1ou to Captain Mccullough is named james
Brown, colorcd, and is resident OF ashlnglon.
This man says that jackson admitted to him
that he killed his mistress, but refused to say
anything about how his throat was cut.-Acg
York. Post.