Evening star., 1897-03-22

Parker led to the arrest Of the latter early
yesterday morning by Constable Marcy.
The negro made no attempt to escape, and
was held awaiting the verdict of the cor
oner's jury.
When daylight dawned the wounds on
the bodies of both were more plainly to be
seen. The woman's throat was cut from
ear to ear leaving gap wide enough to
stick both fists in, while her life blood In
squirting out had almost completely covered
her chin and neck and saturated the clothes
around her breast. Jackson had nasty
cash in his throat, not quite as big as that
of the woman. but deep penough to sever
the windppe and the main arteries. In adj
dition to this, the back of his head was
crushed in. while directly on top were two
holes, one splitting the flesh open for about
an inch, while another made an fndenta-
ton in the skull. fracturing it badly and
plainly visible. His whole head was mass
of blood.
Parker's Story.
Parker. when questioned about the mat
ter, stated that he was in the house asleep
when he was awakened by his sisters
children, who stated that Jackson was
beating their mother. He went out and
saw the body of his sister lying in the
road. and then he jumped on the man. He
virtually admitted once that he killed Jack
son. hut later he told a number of contra
dictory stories.
Soon after his arrival at the scene yes
terday the coroner examined into things.
and then impaneled jury, consisting Of
Robert Walker, foreman; William Ship
man, A. G. Thomas. ]. F. Morris, George
Jackson, colored, and H. r. Fish, colored.
Only four witnesses were heard outside of
the prisoner. The two Carter boys were the
first witnesses. and their story was substan-
tally the same as stated above. One of the
brothers stated that he saw Jackson strike
the woman with a stick and knock her
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see this. he testified to hearing the blow.
The jury seemed to think the brothers
were mistaken in this, as there was no
wound to be found on the head of the wo-
man, and no stick was found in the vicin-
ity except q small decorated cane.
John Carter, the father of the two boys.
gave his testimony, telling how he reached
the scene, being attracted to the spot by
the cries of William Dodson. He told of
moving the body and the action of Parker.
Old man Dodson " as placed on the stand,
but he could give no testimony. He said
he had "rheumatics in de head las week.
an shootin' pains all through my brain, an
l knowed dat suffin' dreadful war gwine ter
happen On de HILL" He was too excited at
the time to note anything.
Parker Held for Murder.
Parker was given a chance to testify, and
he told of being awakened by the children
and finding the dead body Of his sister on
the road. He stated once that he killed
Jackson and then made a number of con-
Trajectory statements. After some delb-
Grafton the jury came to the verdict that
Rosa Lowe came to her death by a razor
wound in the throat from which she bled
to death, the said wound being inflicted by
Charles Jackson. In the mans case the
jury reached the conclusion that Charles
Jackson came to his death by wounds In
ficted with club in the hands of Arthur
Parker. according to the testimony given,
his throat being cut and his skull fractured.
Immediately after rendering the verdict,
Parker was turned over to the constable to
be taken to the Alexandria jail to answer to
the charge of wilful murder.
An investigation was begun to find the
club which IVES used by Parker in killing
Jackson. The ground in the vicinity was
scar ched carefully, but nothing was found.
In the house q club found, with
piece of inch gaspipe coupling fastened Oh
the end to answer for ferrule, upon which
there were blood stains.
TIE stick made a formidable club In the
hands OF an angry man. and the wounds on
the head appeared to have been made
by such ar instrument. The suppo-
sition is that Parker, when awakened by
the children. took the club and went out,
and that, after knocking Jackson down,
replaced 1t in the house, where it was
found. Only one razor was found, and that
was lying partly under the PROSTATE fora
of the woman 1t was covered with blood.
ard most likely was used by Parker when
Jackson was down. In Jackson's hand
penkrife was found. with one blade open,
which he had probably drawn to defend
himself with when attacked by Parker.
There were only one or two specks of blood
en- 1t, but this was evidently his blood and
not that Of his assailant The bloody razor
knife and the club were taken in charge by
the coroner, and carried to his home, to be
used as evidence in the trial.
Carnival of Curiosity.
After the inquest the body of Jackson was
removed across The road from his house,
while the corpse Of the woman was washed
and dressed and prepared for interment.
1t was left lying on a couch in the sleeping
room of the shanty and was viewed during
the day by & large number of people VINO
were attracted to the scene through curios-
ity more than anything else. There were
no marks of injury upon the body other
than the fatal cash at the throat and this
was hidden by the funeral clothes. The
body of jackson was left unwashed and
unattended in the frame building across the
road, and presented ghastly appearance.
Early in the day the blood stains on the
road were covered with dirt, SO as to leave
no trace of the dreadful crime.
The matter of burying the two bodies
created q good deal of interest, as 1t was al
first thought that the interment would have
to be made at the expense of the county
The husband of the murdered woman reach
ed the scene in the afternoon. and he was
satisfied to inter the corpse of his wayward
spouse, but did not have the ready money,
something like $25. to pay for the funeral
expense. The property of the woman re-
verted to him, and the land could not be
sold because the children were under age
ard sale would require an order from
the court The matter was finally arranged.
though no one appeared to be willing to
bury the corpse of johnson.
The dead man was about forty years of
age. and was employed at Rosslyn by John
Clark, the saloon keeper. He was also
widely known as Jesse jackson. The dead
woman did the family washing for mum
Der of suburban residents, but the couple
were regarded as somewhat dangerous, and
the other colored people Of 1.-The hilr' rarely
ever had anything to do with them. Arthur
Parker, or Harcomb Diggs, the brother of
the girl, also bore rather unsavory repu-
tation. He is perhaps twenty years of age
and of a dark copper color.
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"Inn Maclaren's" Orthodoxy Question
A petition will be presented against the
Rev. DR.. John Watson clan Maclaren),
pastor of Seton Park Presbyterian Church.
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