The sun., 1890-05-01
SHOT BY HIS WIFE IN COURT.
SIZE FIRhS THE EATAE BULLET As
HE STANDS At THR BAR.
The Victim n Notorious Criminal whom
No Prison Could Hold-HUis WiTs Says
She Feared He Yould XIII Her.

| The Victim, m Notorious Criuinal WHOM,
No Poison ConId Hold-TIs win Says
She Feared Hs would Kill Her.
MEMPHIS, April 9O.-This morning In the
Police Court, Lizzie Ackerman. wife Of Jake
Alderman. one OF the most notorious thieves
burglars. hiRhwaymen. aud escaped convicts
in the conutry. shot him to death as
he stood at the bar Of justice. Ackerma an
was arrested ut his wife's instigation
on Monday night for assault, threats
to kill, and vagrancy. He was arrAigned this
morning for trial in the police court presided
over by Commissioner Bethel and Recorder
Garvin. When the cnse was called Alderman
stepped to the bar. and was approached by
his wife, who wore q short cloak which con-
cealed her hands. As she reached his side q
report was heard. and the man fell to the
ground with bullet In his abdomen,
The hand OF the woman wasl Immediately
grasped by OoL N. @. Taylor. her husbands
lawyer. but che fred two moro shots into the
PROSTATE body. The wounded man was re-
moved to q rear room. whore he died 40 hour
later. The woman was taken to the county
jail She was perfectly cool and deliberate.
and expresses no regret for her act.
Alderman was known to every detective In
the United States. His father was an Alder
man Of this city, but Jake was q thief from
boyhood. In 1874 he and two companions rob-
bed jewelry store 10 this city, and his pals
were killed in resisting arrest Later he was
with a gang OF thieves, one Of whom killed
Police Captain Perry while trying 10 ar
rest them Still later he cut and
nearly killed q man In the Peabody Hotel. In
1878 he left Memphis, and that year got into
trouble at st. Louis. That year he married q
respectable woman In Vinoennes. Ind, who
secured O divorce when che learned his true
character.
In 1883 he married the woman who killed
him in Topeka. Kansas. Her name was Lizzie
Broderick. Three months later he robbed
Hooker's jewelry store Of tray Of diamonds
in Desmoines, Ia. and was sent to the peni-
tentiary. from which he escaped. He was again
arrested for another offence and jumped ball
bond Of $1,000 furnished By his father-in-lsw.
He then went to Jacksonville. Fla. was again
arrested for robbery. and escaped from jail the
Same day, He was next heard from at Gren-
ada, Miss, the following spring. At that place
he and a man named German from Vim
cennes, Ind. attacked an italian on the
south bound train of the Illinois Central road.
They threw him from the train. robbed him OF
nearly 81 900. and left him for dead. The two
men were arrested. convicted. and sentenced
to ten years In the penitentiRry. In company
with two guards and two other convicts. Ack-
to 90 to jackson. Miss, to serve out his SEN
tenoe. He instructed his fellow prisoners to
call for water both at the Same time When
the guards got up Alderman jumped out
moving at the rate Of about thirty
dense woods. After eluding capture for weeks
Ackerman was at length recaptured and teSen
to the Jackson penitentiary. .h,no ,.nn,,od
Jake's wife still clung to him. aud she fixed up
Thoh she said so
ientisey d' the Warden, Wa noticing something sus:
Hloous had # 9DsTsSd and rsto + ySS oa fund
again he escaped. and twice he jumped. man
aced. from moving trains as be was being re. |
turned to the penitentiary. a.. ia
aud I'd ioiDine i "T lie vile iSA at " HelsnS Ark. |
the couple left for Kansas City. From !
there he went to Omaha and was arrested for |
Once more he escaped and reIoined his wife in |
this city on Monday morning;
His various escapes we're al que 70 a clever
h had Of sd ey
tho frothinG common TO flts:, He |
would be sent to the hospital and from there
While In tho panitentiary his wife entered on |
a life OF shame. and lived In various brothels
iu this city until recently. when she was
sgppDCrted By married man aaa., named ECs
erman asserted that his vile caused
his arrest in order to get rid OF him In John
Ron 8 favor. She did put the police on his
ior doubt that she caused his arrest 30 that
she could kill him unRwares.
She entered the court room n p Pistol In hand:
Il ssSs Sss I'll sST tRs says
she killed him because she was afraid he would
kill her when he was free again.