New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
JACKSON STRUCK BLOW,
SAYS MISS THOMASCH.
She Picks out Negro Prisoner from
Line of Men.

Lane of Men.
Charles jackson, the negro who was arrested
on Friday night on suspicion of being the man
who murdered Charles W. Roxbury. the Bronx
tea tester, positively identified yesterday
by Miss Lillian Thomasch Roxbury's COM
panion the night of the crime. as the man
she as she looked around in her flight fol-
lowing the blow that crushed Roxburys skull.
and at the same time Roxbury's daughter iden-
titled as her fathers blood stained card case
found in Jackson's room and the watch which
the negro had pawned.
Inspector Titus, after he had sent for Miss
Tomasch. stood four coored and four
of his plain clothes. men in line in the back
room of the fremont station. There are several
windows in the back room and the light shone
the faces of the eight men, showing their
features clearly.
Miss Thomasch, in company with her brother,
stood face face with the line Of men.
as there man in that line who resembles
the that struck Mr.. Roxbury?" asked the
Inspector
Miss Thomasch stepped forward and
tinized the features of the three men nearest
to her without showing any signs of recogni-
ton. Jackson the fourth man. When the
young woman looked at him she stepped for
ward until within a few feet of him and then
gave little Jump back
That is the man 1 saw that night" she said
firmly.
Are you sure?" asked the Inspector and half
a dozen others in the room.
Yes" said the young woman.
Go up to the you identify and touch
him." said the Inspector.
Miss Thomasch, with some trepidation walked
up to Jackson and placed her finger on his right
shoulder Not muscle in the negro's face
moved. Miss Thomasch led away by her
hrOfh
prisoner was then taken to the Harlem prison,
| from which he was transferred to the Tombs.
In Coroner Berry's Office Miss Maud Roxbury
the daughter of the dead man. and Harold lie
Graw, his brother-in-law, positively identified
| the watch and the cardcase Roxbury's prop
erty. Miss Roxbury sure her father had
| the cardcase with him on the night he was mur-
| dered, because when he left the house at At
| lantic City Friday morning he forgot to take
| it, and she after him and gave it to him.
Jackson was arraigned before Magistrate
| Crane in the Harlem Court yesterday
charge of homicide and remanded to the Gus
and collected, and smiled when he heard the
| charge.
Inspector McClusky said he satisfied that
the police had collected enough evidence against
Jackson to convict him Of being the murderer
THE prisoner and his wife were questioned
| last night" said the inspector. 'and both con-
| tradicted themselves repeatedly. The only part
of his statement that Jackson stuck to that
| he found the watch underneath a seat in Bar
| mum & Bailey's circus at Danbury, Conn.,, two
| days before the murder The pawnbroker's 8
| clerk, who identified the pawntcket for the
watch, said that the colored man who had
pawned the tIrnepiece had had scratch on his
face. Jackson admits having had a scratch on
! his face when he pawned the watch. but has
told several stories as to how he got it,
The inspector was asked If he suspected jack
sons wife of being the woman Miss Thomasch
thought she saw with the man who struck Rox-
| bury down.
so far we have not gained any evidence that
would connect Jackson's wife directly with the
murder. Jackson is just the kind of man who
| could knock you down with blow of his fist.
He has wonderful biceps much larger than the
average strong mans"
When the watch was pawned Jackson gave
| the address No. 513 West Thirty-sixth St, which
| threw the police off the track. A colored de-
tective of Brooklyn, named Peyton, helped con-
/ siderably in finding Jackson.
| Lucy Jackson, when examined by Coroner
| Berry at the fremont station, said that she was
not TIE lawful wife of the prisoner. Inspector
Titus said the testimony she gave could be used
| against jackson, while, under the law. 1t could
| not be if she had been his lawful wife.
She said that on the day of the murder the
! landlord and a collector for a firm from which
| they had bought their furniture had insisted on
| having some money soon. She said that she and
| Jackson had pawned everything of any value in
| the house and were in desperate circumstances.
| Jackson had left the house at $50 o'clock that
| night and returned about 10 o'clock The next
| morning he showed her the watch and said he
| had found it the night before. He got SO on
| the watch He gave her the cardcase and told
| her he had found 1t in Tenth-ave. car about
six weeks or two months ago.
Detective Sergeants Charlton and McCafferty
| found they said, that the colored man had
| pawned things in every pawnshop along Tenth
ave in the neighborhood of where he lived.
! Among the things he had pawned were two
| wonnens chatelaine bags. Inspector Titus said
that without the help of Peyton the police would
| probably have failed to capture Jackson.
! At the end of the examination Jackson was
| remanded TO the Tombs to await the inquest on
| Monday. The woman sent to the House of
| Detention as a witness.