Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-22
MURDER IN THE COUNTY.

Rose Lowe, colored. with her head
nearly severed from her body, was
found Saturday night lying bathed in
blood on the road leading from the
Chain Bridge to the little settlement in
Alexandria county known as Walker
Chapel. Near the body of the woman
Jesse Jackson was found with CHASTITY
wound in his throat, his head and his
face beaten almost to pulp, making
pitiful endeavor TO gain his feet. His
efforts were spssmodic, however, as he
was clearly unconscious and he soon
expired. The dead woman had left her
husband and with her three children
lived with Jackson. She frequently
quarreled with her lover, especially
when they had been drinking, and both
are reported by the neighbors to have
been drunken and shiftless persons.
About year ago Arthur Diggs, some
times called Arthur Parker, brother
of Rose Lowe, took up his residence
with her and Jackson. Dggs is now in
Jail in this city charged with being
murderer. Saturday afternoon Jack
son and the woman left their cabin and
went to Washington, ostensbly on
shopping tour. Both drank a good
deal of liquor and quarreled. The man
returned home about o'clock in an
intoxicated condition, and frightened
the children by taking razor from
bureau drawer and brandishing it
about recklessly. Suddenly he ran
from the house in the direction
of Washington taking with him heavy
cane with an iron pipe ferrule. He
only went short distance, however,
as he was seen during the gloam of the
evening leaning against the railing of
small bridge less than mile from his
home, but out Of sight of any house
be waited until nearly 8 o'clock, or un
til the Lowe woman came along, rid
ing on wagon in which were Frank
and Edward Carter, two boys who
drive an ash wagon and who live near
the former home of the dead man and
woman. Jackson ordered the woman
to get out, which she did. The two at
once commenced to quarrel, and the
Garter boys, becoming frightened,
urged their jaded horses to a quicker
pace up the hill. When they neared
the top they heard the woman scream,
and, looking back, saw her in the EN-
brace of her lover. 1t was the en-.
brace of death. Jackson took his razor
and cut her throat from ear to ear.
The blood gushing from the awful
wound soaked the ground about where
the body fell. The Carriers ran down
to the cabin and called Digcs, the
brother, telling him that Jackson was
beating Rose, and it is supposed he re-
paired to the scene. They then pro.
ceeded quarter of mile farther to
the home of the grandparents of the
woman and reused them out of bed.
The party among whom was
Diggs) proceeded down the road
to where the body of the
woman lay, and where Jack
sons life was coming to speedy close.
1t was discovered that his head bad
been beaten and his skull fractured in
several places which, even without the
cash in his throat, would have been
sufficient to have caused his death. Re-
turning to the blood soaked spot where
the Tragedy occurred, Inc party found
the razor. The heavy cane with the
iron pipe ferrule was found in the
house where it is believed Digs
returned it after he had assault
ed Jackson. This latter bore all
the evidences of having been the wear
pom with which Jackson was beaten.
Justice Birch held an in
quisitorial court, at which the above
facts were elected. The justice order
ed Diggs' arrest pending further inves-
and he was brought to this
city and incarcerated. Diggs stoutly
denies the crime. During yesterday
the bodies were viewed by neighbors
for miles around. Unmatched they lay
through the night on rudely construct.
ed biers, the woman's remains in a
shanty and those of the man in black
smith shop.