The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-01-19
JACKZO SENTENCED TO
LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

Sheriff Pennock and Undersheriff Peter
Sands. Jackie was convicted of the foul
murder Of William Liberty at Three
Lakes Christmas morning, the deed
being committed with q stout wooden
hook used on the logging road near
there for dipping the pals to secure
water for the teams. Liberty's head
was very badly beaten up, and his
upper jaw was completely broken,
death coming instantly.
The ease went to the jury Tuesday
afternoon. and after couple Of hours
deliberation q verdict was returned Of
murder In the first degree.
1t was proved on the part of the
people that Jaeko did. feloniously, will
fully and Of his malice aforethought
kill and murder Liberty. Jackzo. to-
gether with other men employed by
the Piqua Handle Company at its
camps near Three Lakes, went to
Nichigamme on the afternoon of De-
eember oath. the men remaining re-
naming at Michigamme the evening
Of the Gath and the morning of the 25th.
Among the men with Jackzo was Will
liam Liberty. Tom Mayer, George
Thompson. Charles Knowles, Louis
Stansberger. Liberty and Jackzo
bearded a train at Michigamme at
about $3.50 Christmas morning for Three
Lakes station. The men got off the
train at Three Lakes at the small de-
pot. The men were met near the de-
pot by the foreman, George Matthews.
One Of the men. Tom Mayer, went to
the camp where the landing crew
lived; the rest of the men started to-
ward the camp. Jackzo was some lit
tie distance ahead of the other men on
the track when Mr.. Matthews called
to him to take the road to the camp.
Jackzo replied with some foul remark,
then upon seeing who had called to
him, he said. ~ don't mean you;" he
then called Mr.. Matthews to him and
some of the men in the party. The
foreman told Jackzo to go to camp and
not to fight. The men were started
off on the logging road to camp by Mr..
Matthews, who also started on his
way toward camp with them. When
they had gone about two hundred
yards from the railroad crossing. Lib
erty sat down alongside of the road,
and when the foreman left him, Jack
20 was standing in the road near him.
Louis Stansberger walked to the camp
with the foreman. The other two men,
Thompson and Knowles, we're proceed
ing along the road ahead of Liberty
and Jackzo. Matthews and Stansber-
ger walked to camp, arriving there
shortly after 10 a. m, and soon after
Thompson and Knowles came into
camp. 1t was about Ills a. m. when
Jaekzo came into the camp. Someone
in the mems camp asked Jackzo where
Liberty was, and he said "he is along
side Of the road," that an Indian hit
him (Jackzo) on the head and killed
Liberty.
About 11:SO q. m. Peter Dinger, a
man employed in the camp. arrived at
Three Lakes. Mr.. Dinger, after 60
ing to the landing camp for few mo-
ments, took the road towards the
camp. and when he was about two
hundred yards from the crossing and
about ninety feet from the bridge over
the log road, he found the body of Lib
erty. The man lay on his)back with
the head sunk in the snow. The face
and head, and snow surrounding the
body, we're covered with blood. The
man was dead but the body was still
warm. Dinger then went to the land
ing and notified the men there of his
find. Tom Mayer and Howard Delong-
champ started back with Mr.. Dinger
on the logging road and examined the
body of Liberty, and the surrounding
premises. They found that all fresh
tracks around the body led towards the
camp. They followed the tracks to
the camp, and reported finding the
body to Mr.. Matthews. Matthews and
others then went to the scene of the
crime, examined the body and found
the tracks which led to the spot where
the water hole stick was kept, back Il
the place where the crime was com.
mitted, and then to the camp. The
tracks around where the water hole
stick was found were the same a
those made by the rubbers worn BY
Jsckso on that day. This was testifet
TO by Matthews and Sheriff PennocA.
When the foreman returned to tn,
camp, he called 'JackEo int the bari
and there talked with him. Jackz'
said TO him, III was going to hit Lib
erty but he asked me not TO hit hin
and / threw the stick away" Tn
foreman then asked Jackso where tn
the stick was that he hit Liberty with
and he said ''near where Liberty is il