The Cairo bulletin., 1913-01-23
When Jackson Entertains Harris
burg Girl Of the limo.
cent Eyes"
SPOUSE SEEKS A DIVORCE
Gotham Real Estate Dealer is Sad to
Have Induced Woman to Help =
Put Through Big Deals.

New York, Jan. 22.-Among all
the beautiful young women that
Edgar r.. Jackson, a real estate
swlnaler. lured and duped into help
ing him put through his million
dollar deals one only APPARENTLY. re-
mains faithful as he faces sentence
before Justice Goff tomorrow.
She Is Ruth Dace-"Ruth OF the
Innocent Eyes, as Jackson's as
.sociates knew her, owing TO her
large wistfui, brown eyes.
AtTGarden city, l.. l.. where she
resfae in the famous $4,000 Rose
mary pttage which Jackson gave
harEs has let It be known that
she =to. marry Jackson as soon as
he is3n from prison and as soon
as his Wa& divorces MIN. 1t may be
FIVE ycafz4r II may be fifteen.
1t Is kfl1kn that Judge Goff is not
given to Tkjency. The maximum
sentence for ahe grand larceny, ssof
which Jackson has been convicted
andsfor which heswiH Be sentenced
tomsrrows is ffs years. Besides. he
hasshesn ipd9ted for q grand larceny
, Of s22S6 bm DR.. George T. Leeds,
of YonksfF and others.
Tudhpsz5ackson asked and was
granteaF hours in which to make
his pHAf0 this indictment. He was
remaWEea to the Tombs until Friday
mornlHE
= Divorce is Sought.
MeREtime Mrs. Jackson, whom he
marki8a i s years ago, when she was
only A6 years old, is in Chicago.
where she is establishing a residence
I. for the purpose of securing a divorce.
1t is expected that this will be grant
ed before Jackson has served his
first term. and at the close of it Miss
Dace intends to marry him.
"Jacksons great strength in his
business deals lay in his fascination
with women" said Mrs. Ada Blank
enshipp, auburn-haired widow, whom
he persuaded into investing $65,0O0
of her money, and the sister of Miss
Dace. "He used them to procure
customers and always gave large
commissions. Under his impelling
magnetism he dazzled me into In
.a.f,>. :. e,r ,,,cra thou should nni
into getting others to invest"
Mrs. Blankenshipp could not be
persuaded to speak of her sisters in
tention to marry after the present
Mrs. Jackson secures a divorce.
IL haven't seen my sister for over
a year. she said tonight. Il do not
care what she does. ] asked her to
have nothing more to do with Jack
SON after we found out What man
ner OF man he was. She met jack
son through me, but that was when
| presumed, as all others did who
knew him, that he was honest and
honorable"
Came From Illinois.
The Dace girl came to New York
from Harrisburg. H., where she was
a school teacher at salary of $13.
When Jackson saw the girl he Of
fered her $25 a week as his private
secretary. She was bewildered, ae-
cepted and Immediately fell under
the spell of his lavish entertaining,
Of which Broadway knows no equal.
AS an illustrative incident of
Jackson's lavishnass and the speed
he dashed in his pleasure-seeking
escapades along the Great White
Way there stands in the memory of
many of the historians of Broadway
romance Jackson's famous "bed of
roses"
This occurred" said e. B. Den
nison today, while Mrs. Jackson
was away from their apartments,
Jackson dined that evening with
Miss Dace and another relative OF
hers, a widow. Jackson invited
them to pass the night in his wife's
apartment. Not satisfied with the
ordinary luxury in the appointments
of his wife's suite, Jackson sent out
for bucnhes upon lunches of Ameri.
can Beauty roses and strewed them
all over the bed and the fioor of hi:
wife's boudoir, and then poured thu
costliest perfume all over the fur.
nishings and draperies In the room
About 23o persons are involved II
Jaekson's land schemes, number o.
whom were swindleds outright. A
large portion of these were women
Jackson has to his credit the sui
cides of four PERSONS. whom HI
rnined fnancially Two Of then