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Wife Describes
Family Problem
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doses Of sleeping pills in an effort
to commit suicide, Mrs. jackson
said quietly and reluctantly as if
ashamed of the incidents.
The Jackson's were married in
1851. Mrs. Jackson's first husband
died in l947 and she came north
to Minneapolis from Chatham,
Ala. She has two children by her
first marriage Billy. ii, and Bar
bara l6. Mr.. Jackson's children
are Floyd, II, Linda u, and Emil
IT.
Mrs. jackson said that she felt
that since both of them had
children the marriage would be
a good one and that by working
together they would have a hap
py home.
The first rift occurred she said,
six months after the marriage
over purchase of a home. She
said that both her and her hus-
band had property in the south
which they agreed to sell to pay
down on the home at SILT Logan
Av N, which they occupied at
the time of the fatal shooting
She said both of them disposed
of their holdings in the south and
she paid the down payment on the
home Her husband however pur-
chased an auto instead of keeping
his promise to help with the home
purchase.
Mrs. jackson was not bitter
because she said that she dis
covered early in the marriage
that her husband was nervous"
Continued attempts to get him
to see a doctor or an psyChia-
trist were unsuccessful she said.
She learned also that the vet
Grams di s bility compensation
which he has received since the
close Of World War II was based
on a nervous condition.
Il tried hard to make a good
home for X. c. and the children
but it was very difficult and the
effect of the continual mistreat-
ment and the continual pickering
began to show in the children"
Mrs. Jackson said upon question
ing that ever since her marriage in
addition to keeping house, prepar-
ing meals and tending the needs
of the children she has at least one
job outside the home and Otter
more than one.
At the time of the tragedy she
was employed at the Minneapolis
General hospital as a nurses aid
She said she got up every morn,
ing at 4:3O am. because two Of
the boys had paper routes, anC
she had to wake them and gel
them out on their routes
The chief fear which Mrs.
Jackson seemed to have was that
her husband would some day
carry out his threat to kill her
and the entire family In his
tremendous fits Of rage.
She said she believed he was a
good man at heart but that his
mental condition was the cause Of
mean fits Of temper he had which
terrorized the children.
When he first started beating
her and backing her eyes she sale
she would tell physicians to whom
she went for treatment, she haC
fallen or had an accident. Soor
there were so many beatings tina
she had to tell doctors the truth
Mrs. Jackson said her family
doctor had finally advised her tina
the safest thing for her and tn,
children was to try to secure ;
divorce If it had been possibl,
she said she would have tried t.
continue to have custody of Jack
sons three children also becaus
she had become attached to them
During the interview the wOm-
an seemed Unconditional except
for the times when she ment-
toned the children, especially IL
year old Linda whom she felt
suffered most because Of the
disturbed domestic situation Of
the family.
The writer did not ask whethe
she had any remorse for it wa
doubtful if the woman is over tn
natural shock Of circumstance
and events or that she realize