The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-11
JURY SAYS JACKSON
is NOT GUILTY
Continued from Page II

| James steiner. Il. A. Ross N. Peterson
j. McKeague, ID. NJ. Ross, z. r. Adams
Vincent Fernandez, NJ w. Parkhurst
ID. L. Austin, E. o. White.
The evidence of the prosecution was
Watsons, E. B. Friel and others testified
as to the destruction of the house but
| there was no evidence that Jackson had
been there at the time the fire started.
After some objection Judge De Bolt al
lowed the introduction of evidence of
| threats made by the defendant aga 'net
the inmates of the house as shaving
motive. A letter written py jackson to
the Advertiser in = aica he was said
| to have threate1e1 the Nvatsons COD
not be>>found and secondary eyidenc"
was presented. Mary Bowler testified
| that she had heard Jackson tell his
| aife that he would burn the house I'M
less she did as he requested. This hap
pened three years ago.
| Mr. Friel testified that there was
nothing of a combustible nature in the
| house excepting can of kerosene in
the pantry. and the fire did not origi-
nate there. The witness broke down
when asked whose lives had been lost
| in, the fire.
The prosecution was closed at five
o'clock yesterday afternoon and at the
opening of court at seven O'Clock last
evening the defense began Oscar
Kreuter, who lived in the same house
with Jackson, testified to being awak-
ened by the noise on the night of the
fire and telling jackson ,hat the frs
mUst be in some old barns. Jackson
feared it might be at the Friel home
and wanted to go to it but was per-
suaded by Kreuter that 1T was not and
both retired again.
the house. testified to Jackson's return
to his room and that he did not seem
unusually excited.
Nigel Jackson the defendant, was the |
last witness in his own behalf. He
testified that he had an appointment
with his wife for nine o'clock on the
evening Of the fire, and that he met |
her at the Friel> house about 800. He
resNained with her until 1885. kissed her |
good-by and returned to his room by |
a roundabout way. He was awakened |
from his sleep by dogs barking and saw
a light in the direction of the Friel
place. He wanted to go to the fire but
Kreuter said it was too cold, so he re-
turned TO bed and did not know of the
tragedy until FIVE O'Clock when awaken
ed by Sheriff Chillingworth, who placed
him under arrest.
jackson also told of his marital trou-
bles and attributed the suit for divorce
brought by his wife to the Watsons.
He said however that despite the legal
he was on good terms with
his wife and met her frequently. The
cross-examination developed but little
additional.
The jury was kept together during
the entire trial as the law provides for
capital punishment or life inprison-
ment for arson in the first degree. A.
L. c. Atkinson and Henry Hogan de-
Tended Jackson.
JACKSON'S CARD OF THANKS. |;
To the Editor of Advertiser.
Sir: At this moment. when it is Civ
en- me to be able to breathe once more
the pure air of freedom after several
long and dreary months of close con-
fnement, with the charge of having
committed fearful crime hanging over
my head, my heart goes out ito those
kind friends who did not forsake me
in my hour of trouble. and desire to
give them through the Advertiser. a
public expression of my .undying graft
tude. :
I desire to thank High Sheriff A. NJ. I
Brown, Deputy Sheriff Chas. f. Chill I
ingworth and Warden Henry and his {
deputies for their kind regards an un- I
failing courtesy while under their
charge. Their treatment was that of t
honest officials, but sympathetic Chris {
-ians. "a
To the ]. II. Behrens, Mrs. II. c. Lyle
and other members of the Seventh Day {
Adventist Church. 1 would like to ex- :
press my gratitude. but al this mo-
nent words fail me TO do so appropri- q
ltely. I can say to them. however, that {
heir work in the Oahu Jail has not I
been done in vain and 1 for one Will r
-emember their visits and teachings 50
ong as God gives me life. a
NIGEL JACKSON.
LOVES MESSAGE
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and the stars fond vigil keep, :,
When the cares of day are over, and ii
the world is hushed in sleep, il
rnen 1 think of a summers cleaning b
beneath the tender sky,