The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-22
NOT FIRST Crime?
For Man Who Threw Strangled
Wife From Train.
MOther-in-Law Says He Is
Wanted in Birmingham.

Wanted in Birmingham.
Kansas City. Mo-, June 22.-John r.
Jackson. Kansas City cashier who
strangled his wife to death and threw
her from a Pullman car window as
the train was speeding thru Shell
bina, Mo-, Monday. is wanted in Bir-
mingham, Ala, for jumping a bond
after being arrested in connection with
a famous embezzlement case.
Real Name Irving Morgan.
This was the statement of Mrs.
William Call. mother of Mrs. jack
son, who arrived here today from her
home in Leayenworth, Kan. Mrs. Call
said Jackson's real name was Irving
Morgan. He changed it after jump
ing his bond in birmingham four
years ago, she said.
Mrs. Call did not know until to-
day that it was her daughter jack
son had thrown from the train.
The arrest of Jackson is said to have
been accomplished thru a tenant In
the Railway Exchange building, who
was a customer OF the cigar counter in
the lobby where Mrs. jackson worked
The man, whose name Is Withheid. no.
titled the police late yesterday OF his
suspicious and the arrest and alleged
confession followed within few
hours. The business man had noted
the young woman's absence ana be-
lieved the press description OF the BODY
to be that of Mrs. Jackson.
Jackson has bee n in Jail ever since
he was arrested yesterday. He will
| be taken to Shelbina tonight, where
| he will face charge Of murder. Trial
Will be there because the crime was
/ committed there
Mr.. Hannah Connolly, a confidante
| of Mrs jackson, today revealed to the
authorities "secrecies' tending to sub
! stantiate Jackson's story that his wife
| was infatuated with sailor at the
Great Lakes navar station. and that
| was her real purpose behind the fatal
| trip to Chicago.
| Mrs. Jackson often told me Of her
| love for the sailor" Mrs. Connolly de-
clared. II argued with her that she
was making a mistake. because her
| husband treated her well.
| "She told me Thursday she was 60
| ing to Chicago. I pleaded with her
that FOR her Boys sake she ought not
| to go. 1 told her she would get
caught. She said she would not. She
| said the music excuse satisfied her
husband and he thought she was go
ing there to continue her studies.
| Kansas City. Mo-, June 22.-Appar-
| emily unmoved, J.. r. Jackson, Kansas
| City cashier, today went over with
interviewers the details of how he
1
man car compartment on the Burling-
ton. and threw her body and clothes
out of the window while the train
was racing thru Shelbina, Mo-, last
| Monday.
| Had Been a Mystery.
Finding of the. almost entirely nude
body of the woman on the tracks near
Shelbina had remained mystery un-
til Jackson's arrest and confession last
night.
g., Jealousy the Cause.
jealousy over the alleged attentions
| of a Jackie at the Great Lakes training
station, was the motive Jackson as
cribed for his crime.
Yielding to the persuasions Of his
wife, whom he charged with having
been infatuated with the Jackie for
some time, he said. he was taking her
to Chicago, when they quarreled over
the Jackie and in a fit of rage he
choked her to death.
Unaffected hy Crime.
Jackson told how, after the murder
he left the Pullman train at the next
stop, Palmyra Junction, boarded a
train for st. Joseph, Mo-, and later re-
turned to his three-year- old son at his
home in Kansas City. Until his ar
rest he had gone about his work as
cashier for the National Film company
here, discussed commonplace with
his neighbors and otherwise acted as
If nothing had happened. He explained
the absence of his wife by saying that
she was id Chicago and probably hav-
ing a good time in the company OF
her Jackie lover"
Made Confession CooIly.
At the police station Jackson coolly
identified the clothing of his wife
found strewn along the tracks neal
Shelbina, Mo. Then he sat down and
typed his confession of the Staying.
Sd he xx-s e. Io
came infatuated with another maj
while was out of the city, he wrote
She frequently slipped away from
home at nights to meet the man sht
said she was in love with. Latel!
she wanted to take the baby and leave
stand to have this occur. We quar-
relied often but never abused her.
Wanted to Take Child Away.
Recently she said she was goin.
to Chicago. The man enlisted in thu
navy a few weeks ago and is at Grea
Lakes. She said she was going tt
take the boy and If I didn't let he
go she was going to steal him. 1tries
to reconcile her. 1 loved my wifi
dearly but could not consent to he
taking him away"
Jackson said his wife finally per
suaded him to take her to Chicago
where she wanted to study music, sh'
said.
, Suddenly Became Crazed.
rive were lying across the berth ii
the Pullman and she was confitiin,
things to me I knew to be true. 1
, was something more terrible thai
l clean minds should read about. Sud
: denly was crazed. In few Ininute
j. it was all over.
Three Persons Responsible.
. Three persons are responsible TO
/, a wrecked home. When the tim