The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-02-04
JACKSON IS TO HANG
The Day of Execution Set for
February 26.
The Horrible Crime For Which He is 10 Suff-r
the Death Penalty Graphically
Recalled.
Especial to News and Observer

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Lun!berton, y. c., Feb. 1.-The last man
| hanged n Lincoln county was Gran
| ford for the murder OF mis- wife. in 1860.
Governor Aycock has forwarded the Sher-
If Of the county a death warrant" TO
| hong Andrew Jackson on the 18th OF
February. for burglary.
The laws OF North Carolina make
burglary or breaking INFO a dwelling
house in the nighttime 4 capital crime,
| because. although the breaking may be
fo1. robbery. vet it is with intention to
kill if detected. This case stands almost
alone. as the burglary or breaking IN
was not for stealing, but to MURDER
Four women were in i one-story house,
two in each room. Tracks show that
some one stood al a window OF one OF
| the rooms and could, as there were no
blinds To the windows, see IN winch bed
individuals retired. The lock of the
front room was with little noise forced
so as to open the door, the pelpetratoT
quietly passed through the first room III
| which two women were sleeping, in TO
the room which could be seen into from
the tracks outside, and reaching over Mrs.
Stroup on The front of the bed, with q
razor. cut Mrs. Jones. who was behind
on the thigh two or three times to the
bone, Gaping the razor; also across the
| breast and arms; also cut 4 child be-
tween them. He then caught Mrs. StrOup
by the chin, as If to raise her head so
as TO cut her throat; this awakened her.
She grabbed the hard and got hold OF
the handle OF the razor as She arose.
She struggled with the man, calling on
her daughter in the next room to make
a light and come to her help, praying
Et~l "a -. 49,. .-l $40
match lighted she twisted the razor SO
as TO cut his hand; he dropped the razor
ana jumped through the window, carry
ing the sash with him. Surely. in it's
horrors. this crime has never been
surpassed.
The evidence connecting Jackson with
it was all circumStantial, Jackson having
a wife in Georgia, married a sister OF
Mrs. Jones, he was arrested on charge
OF bigamy. While confined at Cherryyille
Mrs. Jones had said to him he fought
to be hanged. and she could pull the
rope" He replied: You better shut up,
You better shut up. You do not know
what you may come to-" The warrant
was afterwards withdrawn conditioned
that he leave the State. He wore a sol
dier'S coat with metal buttons, and had a
small slim hand Mrs. Stroup felt the
buttons and recognized the hand in the
struggle. Jackson called at a negro
house two or three miles from Mrs.
Stroup's the day before the night on
which the crime was committed and asked
the way to the place.
He bought a ticket on the day before
from Gaftney, s. c., where he worked in
a mill to Lowell, \. c. Here, after get
ting off the train, he ran against the
| agent and knocked a bundle out Of his
hand, which caused him to notice him
carefully. He identified him on the trial.
He was absent from the mill Friday and
Saturday the crime was committed Sat
urday night, but returned on Monday
morning with q cut in his hand, such as
the razor might have made. The super
~intendent dressed the cut. He asked q
mill boss where he could get mil
checks" cashed. He told him he got the
checks cashed on Friday. These parties
also testified on the trial. Jackson de-
MED everything and said he never had
left GafTney. A witness also testified
that he had not left. The jury that tried
him was pronounced by his counsel the
best they had ever seen in the county.