The Lamar register., 1896-02-22
lMPORTANT WITNESS.
NEW EVIDENCE IN THE ciscis-
MATT CASE.
The Man rsand who Drove the Carriage
In watch resri nryaa Was Carried 10
the Fiser where sh. WAS hurdsred-

made its APPEARANCE TINS hAtNAHNNA7
George II. Jackson. color-d man.
who is private etachfa&n for Major
Withheld on NIcGreSor avenue, Mount
Auburn. revealed the story voluntarily
to the police. George II. Jackson Is
driIlmaSter and commander o. the
Caldwell guards. a colored company IN
this city. on Friday night. January 81,
be was drilling them until midnight
He went cut afterwards and was
standing moment az the coTuer Of
George aud Elm streets In the Tender
Ioln district OF this city. when a tai'
dark-haired man, wearing cordur9y
cap, came along and said to the CON
pany Of bystsnders
DO any u you fellows want % make
s. for driving a carriage tonight
jackson accepted the oner. He bad
been a carriage driver an his life. Pres
entity a s.luire box surrey WaS driven
down 10 whore be was and be was tnld
that was the carrlaee. lie was iuyitad
70 the SCAT and man with a corduroy
cap and dark monStache took sat b.
side him and said he would dircCt him
He todd him that there was a doctor
and sick lady 10 The carTLasc,
that they were going TO take
them over 10 Newport. and he would
show him fow to drive. They drove
down Elm streyt 10 Third. on Third 70
Broadway. down Broadway 10 The
Newport bridge. crossed the bridge
over into Newport There was cur
tain "a the surrey AZ the hacks of ihc
drivers 80 that jackson couid not Fce
who was Ia the Inside, but he beard
the voice OF the nan and the ''fuUny
noise made by a woman" After drly'
Ing through Newp1Ft be became
alarmed and wanted to jump oa. This
was after midnight aud no one was on
/ the street. 80 that BE- could nsEc No
alarm. but be was very much fright
ened
The man on the seat beside him put
a revolver 10 his head aud said:
You drive tlmt horse or III make aD
end Of you very quickly"
The horse Was a large gray ~huss.
held a high bead and moved very rap
I idly and he was kept moying. The man
on the seat with him took his name aud
/ his residence and learned all about him.
and said:
"If You ever say anything about this
We win Kill you, and II We Eet into
/ trouble we have friends on the outside
that would follow you up and KIN you
Jackson says:
Il believe they have been following
me 1t may be Imagination. but
think have been followed ever since
these men have been in Jail / have
Z never driven on that road befor,. that
know Of The msn on the seat directed
me how TO go, II was a very crooked
road. We came out a Inst where they
/ told me TO stop There were some
thlckets near by They said the house
where the woman was to 20 was not
/ far away. They would take her across
there and whistle when they were
ready 10 go back They told me to turn
l 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
4 dragged her feet. II was too dark for
me to see anything. The man who
/ got out OF the surrey IVES not as tail
as the man who sat by me That man
| got on his seat and assisted in taking
the woman away in the darkness.
looked for a hItchlng block and ex-
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