FRANK JACKSON MURDER CASE, WASHINGTON, NEW JERSEY

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From the Glens Falls Times, September 28, 1908:

                         HEAR JACKSON CASE IN COURT AT SALEM
                      GRAND JURY TAKES UP CHARGE AGAINST MURDERER.

         Supreme Court Term, Justice Kellogg, Presiding, Convenes at Salem, With
                Forty-seven Cases on Calendar-Local Attorneys in Attendance.

     The Washington county grand jury, which sat today at Salem in
connection with the session of supreme court, Justice Kellogg presiding,
will have as its principal business the consideration of the murder case of
the People against Frank Jackson, colored, who is accused of killing his
wife in Sandy Hill last month. As the killing was witnessed by a number of
persons, all of whom saw the accused wield the razor with which he cut his
wife's throat, there is little doubt of the outcome of the case. If a true
bill is found against the man, which is entirely probable, Justice Kellogg
will appoint a term of court, probably within a month or two, to try the
negro for his life.

     Jackson's crime, it will be remembered, was committed on the lawn at
the residence of Hon. Grenville M. Ingalsbe, about 7 o'clock on the morning
of August 24, when Jackson, enraged at his wife for her alleged actions wIth
other men, dragged her out of the kitchen and cut her throat. He escaped
into the outskirts of the village, but was caught within two or three hours
by Deputy Sheriff Mott and a posse of officers, to whom he confessed the
killing, giving as his reason for the act that his wife was a bad woman.

    The grand jury also has the usual number of minor crimes to investigate
and an average total of excise violations. As the sitting today did not
commence until afternoon, it is not expected that a report on the Jackson
case or other cases will be given before the end of the week.

    The court term has a total of forty-seven cases to consider, including a
number of big damage actions. A number of local attorneys are at Salem in
attendance at court, having cases on the calendar.