The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-16
HAVE
YOU
GOT
ONE
YET?
SEEm

sEE TwENTY-sI
Guards. a colored company in this
city. On Friday night. January 81, he
was drilling them until midnight. He
went out afterwards and was standing
moment at the corner of George and
! Elm streets III the
TENDERLOIN DISTRICT
| of this city, when a tall, dark haired
man, wearing corduroy cap, came up
| and said to the company of by-stand-
ers: DO any of you fellows want to
make IS for driving a carriage to-
! night?"
Jackson accepted the offer. He has
| been a carriage driver all his life.
Presently a square box Surry was
driven down to where he was, and he
was told that was the carriage. He
was invited to the seat and the man
with the corduroy cap and dark nous
tache took a seat beside him and said
he would direct him. He told him that
there was a doctor and a sick lady in
the Carriage that they We're going to
| IKE over to Newport and he would
show him how to drive. They drove
I down Elm street to Third, on Third to
Broadway. down Broadway to the
Newport bridge, crossed the bridge
over into Newport. There was a cur
tain in the surrey at the back of the
driver, so that Jackson could not see
who was inside. but he heard the voice
of a man and "the funny noise made
by a woman" After driving through
Newport he became alarmed and
wanted to jump off. This was after
midnight and no one was in the street.
so that he could
MAKE NO ALARM,
but he was much frightened. The man
on the seat beside him put a revolver
to his head and said, You drive that
horse or I'll make an end of you very
quickly"
The horse was large gray, held a
high head and moved very rapidly, and
he was kept moving. The man on the
seat with him took his name and his
residence, learned all about him and
sand. If you ever say anything about
this we will kill you, and if we get into
trouble we have friends on the outside
that would follow you up and kill
you -
Jackson says: Ct believe they have
been following me. 1t may be imagin-
alton. but l think l have been followed
ever since these men have been in jail.
/ have never driven on that road be-
fore that ] know of. The man on the
seat directed me how to go. 1t was
very crooked road. We came out at
last where they told me to stop. There
were some thickets nearby. They
said the house where the woman was
to go was not very far away they
whistle when they were ready to go
back. They told me to turn the horse
around and wait for them. The man in
the surrey got out first and helped the
woman. She
LEANED ON HIM
heavily. and as she walked along
dragged her feet 1t was too dark for
me to see anything. The man who got
out of the surrey was not as tall as the
nan who sat by me. That man got off
his seat and assisted in taking the
woman away in the darkness. 1 look
ed for a hitching block and expected
to find a round one. instead of that l
found piece of railway rail about
foot long with two holes in it. ] hitch
ed the horse to that and waited a lit
tie while. I heard a very queer noise,
something like scuffiing in the leaves
along with a noise that cannot
describe, but | think was made by
woman I remembered the strange
noises that the woman had been max
ing all the way out. That noise
heard in the thicket frightened me and
l ran away as hard as I could run.
got home on foot about 4:30 o'clock in
the morning.
Il did not see anything more of
them When I heard of this murder [
thought it must be the same case.
was afraid TO talk on account of the
threats made At last [ thought [
ought to talk about it and tell all I
of 10
either the man or the woman, so that
I could not recognize either faces. The
man on the seat beside me had big
overcoat on him and | could not tell
whether he was slender or not. All
three wore dark clothing and the
WOMAN WAS YELLED
all over her face. Before I started
from Cincinnati the carriage was
driven to me closed all around.
The man described the surrey as
having a sort of coupe in the front
part of a square box, so as to permit
the vehicle to make short turns.
George H. jackson is we'll known
In this city. He has been a driver for
many years for a great many reputa,
bic citizens, and he has the highest
reputation among them for honesty
and truthfulness. His story to the
mayor tonight under cfosS-eAdlillll dlloh
never varied a jot from the stories he
gave to the Mount Auburn officers
He is believed 70 be perfectly truthful
and entirely innocent of any guilty
knowledge of the purpose of that trip
out to Fort Thomas. There were four
members of the First regiment, ma
tional guards talking with him when
this man came up and engaged him to
drive the surrey.
At midnight George H Jackson was
taken to the jail and the two men We're
brought out and placed in line OF
twenty-five or thirty resembling them
as nearly as possible in dress and APP
pearance, and Jackson was asked to
pick out the man who sat on the Seat
driving out there. He took his time
about it, inspecting man by man. At
last he went up to Walling, looked up
and down from his head to his feet in
front and all around him, then stepped
out in front of him and said: Il am
sure this is the man that sat on the
seat with me" Then he added: III L
could hear his voice 1 could tell bet
ter"
REPEAT THE THREATS
that he is alleged to have made to the
negro. He repeated them after the ne
gro. Jackson said: Il wish you would
put q little more force in your voice"
Wialling did so, rocking on his heels
and slightly trembling. whereupon the
negro said: That's his voice only it's
o little stronger"
As to Jackson. he went round and Ve-
Looted several ropn that seemed m he