The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-02
JACKSON IS TO HANG
The Day of Execution Set for
February &c.
The Horrible Crime For Which He is 10 Suffer
the Death Penalty Graphically
Recalled.
Especial to News and Observer

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Lumberton. n. c., Feb 1.-The last man
hanged in Lincoln county was -! Gran
ford for the murder of his wife, in 1860
Governor Aycock has forwarded the Sher-
if of the county a death warrant" to
hang Andrew Jackson on the 2Sth of
February, for burglary.
The laws of North Carolina make
burglary or breaking into a dwelling
house in the night time a capital crime,
because, although the breaking may be
for robbery, yet 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 story house.
two in each room. Tracks show that
some one stood at window of one of
the rooms and could. as there were no
blinds to the windows, see in which bed
individuals retired The lock of the
front room was with little noise forced
so as to open the door, the perpetrator
quietly passed through the first room in
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 a
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 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 hand and got hold of
the handle of the razor as she arose.
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her daughter in the next room to make
light and come to her help praying
God to aid her About the time the
match lighted she twisted the razor so
as to cut his hand; he dropped the razor
and 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 Ought
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 was afterwards withdrawn.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 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 ticket on the day before
| from Gaffney, 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 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 a 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 be got the
checks cashed on Friday. These parties
also testified on the trial Jackson de-
MED everything and said he never haC
left Gaffney. 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.