The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
REHORSE AND SUICIDE.
Tbs Trsgio Death of an Indiana Farmer
Two Attempts of his Daughter at Self
Destruction.
peciai to the Cincinnati Commercial.

Especial to the Cincinnati Commercial
VERSAILLES. Ind, July 16 This County,
which has lately been the scene of 50 many
casualties, has now added horror which Is
unprecedented in its history. At Tangle-
wood, little hamlet come two miles south
east of this place. man, of forty, James
Jackson, who lived with the respect and
esteem of all his neighbors, committed sui
eide this morning about o'clock, by taking
dose of Btrychnine.
The case Is one of the most revolving which
your correspondent who was near the place
and obtained all the particulars, has ever
known. dickson has been twice married,
and YVES the father of four children. His
fipst wife became insane and was sent to the
asylum, where she soon afterward died.
About this time, according to the story OF
his psrimour, he commenced life OF
shame with his own daughter, which was
carried On Tor several months; and IN the
meantime this foul father concluded to wed.
and in May took to himself wife. Soon
after the marriage the daughter was found
to be snciente, and she was sent away to be
delivered.
On Mondey night the young woman, who
is pr0Ot by within two or three months OF
motherhood, returned home without the
knowledge of anyone but her father, and
declared that she would keep the matter
secret no longer. The father raved, swors
and pleaded, but all to no avail; she still
Unlisted that she would make the revelation.
This morning Jackson went out into one
OF his corn cribs and swallowed q large desc
OF strychnine, and in o short time he died
from the effects OF the dose.
The daughter still cared for the inhuman
father and whsn she found he was dead she
fairly raved and declared that she would de-
stIoy herself, and twice did she make the
attempt. Once she took revolver and was
stepped jus. in time TO be saved, and then
she found bottle of arsenic and tried to
take 1t. saying lit was all my fault. My poor
father he would not have done this but for
me-" She still declares that she will
never live to be the mother OF the mend be-
gotten child.
The man Jackson is well connected, a
farmer of some means, and was considered a
man OF honor and rectitude and faithful in
the discharge of his religious duty as a
church member 1t is a pity such shame
must liBger on bis children and bis newly
welded wife, who, the doctors say, will
hardly 1--we through the trial OF misery.
ANOTHER YOUNG MAN {"
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial:
VERSAILLES, Ind, July 1.-THE case of
incest IS now denied by the family. The
young girl says it was not her father, but a
young man in the neighborhood, who is the
father of the child of which she is soon to
be a mother. She absolutely denies ell
charges of q criminal nature, and declares
that sac was the cause OF his death by her in
discretio and that the knowledge of her I'M
fortuaats condition was the cause of him
taking the strychnIne, and further says she
will go after him, having twice already tried
to take her life
The whole affair is very sad and shocking
The f4mily's position in society is such that
it brings a great deal of sympathy from
friends hereabouis, and Mr.. Jackson's life
has been such that il was hard to believe
such report.