Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-07-28

With jealousy and anger in his heart,
,urtis jackson, aged 70 years, Friday
light fatally shot his wife, Kate aged
70, wounded Robert liinson. aged %,
and lying beside the unconscious body
of his wife, put hnliut into his own
brain. All this occurred in the neigh
borhood of No. Mechanic street, where
the Janksons lived. jackson died while
on his way to the Delaware Hospital,
and his wife died about an hour after
reaching there. Iiins0n is not seriously
hurt III the parties ars colOred.
Trouble arose between jackson and
bis wife, who had been married only
six monthe, on Wednesday evening,
when jackson accused the woman OF
being too friendly with HinsOn, who
'esideH at No. Ill Walnut street. Both
nen have bean employed by the pia-
nnnd State Iron Go. Mira, jackson
lenied her husband accusation and in
one of their quarrels ne struck her. For
this she sworo nut warrant for his
arrest, and Officer Gilling went down
to Mechanic street, which il between
Lombard and Pine and Sixth and
Seventh, yesterday afternoon about
O'Clock TO serve the warrant. lie did
not find jackson.
An hour or no later, jackson appeared
10 Mechanic street. and seeing HinHon
in the yard of Emma Dickerson' q house,
No. 9, adjoining the jackson home,
went in to him and accused him of
intimacy with Mrs. jackson. at the
same time he drew revolver, a 81
calibre bull dog pattern, and exclaimed
81 M going to kill you.' Hinson did
not wait TO be shot, but yauting ovsr
u fence attempted to escape In the
direction of Sixth street. jackson fol-
lowed him aud fired three shots, one OF
which struck Hinson 10 the left elbow,
and another in the right baud, the
third missing him. He ran to the
police station where he told what he
knew about the shooting and Polics
Surgeon Hughes removed the bullet
which had lodged in his hand. The
wound on the elbow was simply flesh
wound.
After Ilinsuu had got out OF range,
lacksun went home, carrying tne re.
Alberta Murray, saw him coming ant
warned his wife to iun. Mrs. jackson
needed the warning and ran down tht
alley towards Sixth street and dowf
that street. But Jackson was in clos
pursuit and soon caught up with her
Heput his free hand around her, Will
she, placing her hands in front OF he
face, begged him not to shoot her
Take your hands away aud wont, ,
he said. She did SO. and the mex
moment her husband fired bullet int
her head near the left temple. Sh
sank to the ground and jackson wake,
around with his revolver in hand ter
rorizing the gratherng crowd.
The body OF Mrs. jackson was CARRIE
by Bayard Wilmer, William Baldwi
and Frank Conner into Mechanic stree
and laid on the pavement in front q
No. 1e. While Conner and Baldwi
went for water to wash her wounds
Wilmer held up her head. Then Jack
son came along and the crowd seal
tered, but Wilmer remained at his pos
until jackson pointed his revolver I
him, when be- too, fled. Don't touc
me, exclaimed jackson, ''don't touc
me. or III kill you.
Then throwing himself beside th
body of his wife, he sent bullet crast
ing into his own brain.
Several police officers appeared O
the scene after the shooting. III
woman was sent in the patrol wagon
the Delaware Hospital, and the phuni
ambulance being out whom sent TO
the patrol wagon returned for the hu
band. JacRKon died, however, viii
on the way to the hospital. The boo
was removed to the morgue, and b
wife. dying about an hour later, h
body was also taken there.