New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22
DOUBLE MURDER IN BROOKLYN.
FATAL RESULT OF A NEGRO'S JEALOUSY.
rwo PERSONS KILLED AND TWO BADLY WOUNDED
IN A sHANTY on CROW HILL.

FATAL RESULT OF n JbhbOOpi'
rwo PERSONS KILLED AND TWO BADLY WOUNDED
IN A sHANTY ON CROW HILL.
double murder was committed last evening near
the outskirts of Brooklyn, in the Twenty-fourth
warI, by o negro named Alexander Jefferson,
who killed two persons, man and a
woman, and seriously wounded two
others, also of opposite The bloody affair oc-
Cured at No. III BuffalO-ave, st. Marksave.,
and within a stones throw of the new st. Mary's
Hospital. In that part Of the city,
known as Crow Hill, many colored
people live, most of whom are "squatters."
Among these persons Alexander Jefferson, the MUIR
derer, has long been known as a desper:
are persor. He was arrested in 1877
is no. 1875 in the Rogues' Gallery in Brooklyn
For his crime he served four years term in the
KINGS County Penitentiary and was only recently re-
ca ed. The scene of the crime, No. III Buffalo
ave, is q One-story shanty, the house OF Mrs
Emma Jackson. age ffty-eight, a respectable
twenty-four. In the house boarded Alexander
Jefferson, age twenty his brother Celestial,
age twenty,seyen. who is alao known as Mamie 1T1
Wright and Henry Hicks. age forty-one. The
three men worked at wnitewashing and odd
jObblng.
About $50 last evening, as the two women and
Celestial Jefferson and Hicks were, sitting in the
front room of the house, quietly working and talk
ing, The window was suddenly opened from without
by Alexander Jefferson; and the muz]le OF "a q
through the opening. As the women
screamed and one of the men cried Don't shoot"
both barrels of the gun were discharged III quick
succession he first shot struck Henry Hicks in
the right side of the face, tearing 1t away
and moking terrible wound. He fell from his seat
and died i'll short time. The second
som soD' in O"u the face. but he sprang to
his feet and rushing ont OF the house, wrested the
gun from his brothers hands and ran
TO the Futon-st. Police station. Mean
while the murderer followed up his
de,dy work in the shanty 2gawg razor ne
raining blow after blow upon them as
they sank, TO the floor covered with
mercy. At length believing his victims
dead and his thirst for blood glutted, the
murderer proceeded 10 make his escape. The old
woman, Mrs Jackson, bad her throat cut, ana must
have died in short time, but her daughter was able
to get to the n, Xt house. about DlCck away, ue-
spite the fact that she bad received hye cuts In the
abdomen and several IN the arms, anu was IalnIlhB
from the loss of blood.
polIcethe whole machinery of the department. was
set in motion to secure the criminal. Several
policemen went to the scene OF the murder, ana
an ambulance was called from the homeopathic
yeyed to the hospital but her wounds are regarded
as probably fatal The two otter victims OF the
shanty, which presented dreadful appearance
more like slaughter-house than a dwelling.
g eral alarm was sent t. all the police stations IN
Brooklyn TO the Central Office III tins city ana To
East New York, L. l., to arrest the murderer, who
N described as very black short and
stout with villainous expression of countenance
The mounted police were sent out 10 scour
the part OF the city near the crime.
mostly vacant lots--and the adjoining portions
of the towns of Flatbush and New Lots IN which 1t
Il believed he would seek to hide himself No
cause for the crime is known. but
it is believed that the murderer wa,
in love with Annie Jackson and
lealous of her mother and Hicks, while he be-
lIeved the girl and her mother favored them more
thal she did him. When in liquor he was IN the
habit of ling to kill the family, Dut u was
NOT thought that lie would venture 10 put his threat
in execution 1t is thought that he chose last night
very dark and stormy, as the best tune to steal up
to the house and do the deed without
warning. Fortunately, he only half carried out MS
fendish intention. At an early hour tins morning
no trace of the murderer had been found.