Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-10
BAD BRITISH LAW.
Exciting Scene at a House in
Blackburn.
BEsIEGED BY AN ANGRY CROWD.

because British Justice Gives n Man
the Right to Force Woman t, Live
with Naturalization and Attempted
Rescue-Somewhat Similar to the Chi;
cago Case-More Notes of Irish Poll
tics-Priestly Interference in the Cam
paisn-Enropean News Notes.
LONDON, March 10 Mrs. E. jackson
was leaving the church at Ciitheroe, near
Manchester, Sunday, when three men
jumped out of carriage, seized the lady,
put her by force in the carriage, ano drove
away. The people, greatly excited. fol-
lowed and attempted to rescue Mrs Jack
son At Blackburn the abductors alighted
aud entered house, where they defied
pursuers. The leader in the abb uction
WAS the lady's usband, who married her
privately some years ago He went to
Australia, returning in 1889. Mrs Jack
son in the meantime had succeeded TO a
fortune. She refused to live with her
husband. He applied to the courts and
got an order restoring his conjugal rights
TN the authority of that order nc alb
Quoted her Sunday. The police felt COM
PEELED to obey the order of the court, and
are defending the house where Mrs. Jack
son is prisoner against the rage Of the
people who are anxious to deliver her
Laid Siege to the House.
Throughout Sunday night the p,rtv
watched the house to see that no one es-
capped, and yesterday morning the weary
watchers were relieved by friends, who
continued the vigil all day. Occasion
ally during yesterday Mrs jackson Yould
appear at window, when the crowd
which seemed to increase rather than di-
minlsh, would cheer her and encourage
the beseigers with words of sympathy
and expressions of confidence in their ul-
innate success in compelling the besieeed
party to surrender. The people of TIE
town subord: mated every duty to their fe-
verIsh interest in the determined struggle
between the besiegers and the besieged.
aud business was almost wholly sus
pended.
Laying in Supplies.
Strangers poured into the town from all
directions, and at nightfall the streets in
the vicinity of the Jackson house were
thronged with people, who, but for the
presence of the police, would have forced
an entrance into the house in short order.
1t was hoped by the besiegers and their
Sympathizers that the inmates of the
house would be starved into capitulation
before night. but this hope was dissipated
when toward nightfall two or three ham
pers OF provisions Were brought by the en-
ployes OF tradesmen. and quickly carried
within the police Gordon and hoisted I'D to
a second-story window. 1t was then
learned that the house was provided with
a telephone, by which the inmates were
enabled to communicate with tradeSmen,
and the besieging party will endeavor to
intercept any future supplies.
May Result in Needed Reform.
The abduction of Mrs. Jackson will
probably be the subject of inquiry in par
lament. English law on the question of
conjugat rights is rather Anticipated for
present ideas of woman's rights. 1t was
extended to India about a quarter of a
century ago. and is used by Hindoo hus-
bands to compel wives, who were welded
II infancy and had never seen their hus-
bands, to live with them, the wives a
many Instances being mere children. The
Jackson case illustrates its possible use in
England and may lead to a change that
Will give wife security from an outrage
Ike that at Ciitheree