Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1900-04-14
TWO JACKsONs ON TRIAL
For the Murder of Cassie BOan
near Jefferson.

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loan murder case. The testimony
of Tom Steen was great disap
pointment. Steen had been in
Jail as an accomplice. When il
was known that he intended tC
turn States evidence, it was ex.
pected that he would throw q
flood of light on the dark tragedy
1t is believed that he has not told
the whole truth, but told enough,
as he hopes, to save his neck.
The defendants counsel are jubi
liant over the baroness of his tes
timOny. 1t is known that there
was CONSERVATION in camp on the
evening when it was known that
Steen had turned States evidence.
But the defense is not quite hap
py, for Ben Jackson has not yet
testified. He also was arrested
after the coroner's inquest and
has been in Jail since, but the
solicitor did not hand out any bill
against him, and can use him as q
witness. What arrows are in his
culver is not yet known, but his
testimony is expected to be very
damaging. One of the attorneys
for the defense said tonight hat
unless the State strengthened its
case very much tomorrow they
would not feel it necessary to put
up any testimony; that the States
case 90 yet only amounted to sus
picion. He said further that he
believed the jury would regard
their only theory as the reosona
bic one, which is that Cassie Boan
was by the camp fire in a state
of beasify intoxication, caught
fire and was not aroused until the
flames had covered her; that in
her frenzy trying to cut away her
blazing garments with pair of
scissors, she had slashed her body.
Peter Campbell, a substantial
farmer and coed citizen of that
neighborhood. took the stand. He
was aroused about daylight of the
fateful morning by Dosey Jack
son, brother of Harvey Jackson,
accompanied by John jackson,
one OF the defendants, and Abb
Kirkley, who informed him that
woman was burned to death
d2wn ;a the weeds. &c hastencd
to 90 at once to the scene. They
lost the direction, but, guided by
what witness described as a
sqnealing sound between a hol
low and a cry, they came upon
the spot. The description which
the witness gave of what had
once been comely Cassie Boan is
too horrible to pen. The body,
nude and burned beyond resem
blance to human form, lay writh.
ing and moaning on the ground
with four great Gaping gashes
upon it. There was one slash
from above the right hip around
the pelvic region, another from
left going toward pelvic region
and from elbow of left arm eX
tending up to the arm pit, anoth
er on the right arm After throw
ing a quilt over her witness
stopped down and asked her who
she was and what was the cause
of her condition. She could un-
derstand nothing, and he only
heard her say "Oh, Lord!" In
searching for clue witness found
crossing a little swamp nearby,
| the tracks Of two men, one wear
ing pointed toe shoes, the other a
blunt toe shoe, and woman's
track. This trail led into an is
land, here they found that the
party had stopped. BY the side
of a log he found the remains of
a package of snuff and a page
from a dir novel Bringing
Cassie Boan's shoes they fitted
the woman's track precisely. The
mems tracks were identified as
those Of the defendants. Upon
further examination a trail of
three men and one woman leav
! ing the island. Was that track OF
the third man that of Tom Steen?