Jackson, J. B.

Cardin Oklahoma. Apr 12.--Enraged over the decision of his pretty 22 year old wife to divorce him, and after failing to effect a reconciliation, J. B. Jackson, 26 years old, a miner, battered his way into her room in the Townsend rooming house, 206 North Main Street, about 8 last night, fired two shots through her body, seriously wounding her, and then turned the gun on himself and inflicted a wound over his right ear which caused his death a few minutes later. The climax to the domestic troubles was preceded by a horrible episode three weeks ago, when Jackson attacked his wife on the Streets of Cardin, slashing the clothing from her body with a razor. The couple separated for the third time last February. The tragedy of last night prompts the belief that Jackson was mentally deranged. As a result of a mine accident several years ago the husband has been wearing a silver plate in his head, and the fact that on several occasions he terrified his wife by his actions led to the belief that the plate was pressing on his brain. After the gruesome affair last night the wife, Mrs. Hattie Jackson, was rushed to Miami Baptist hospital where it was said this morning her condition was serious, although better than when she was received there. Jackson was found dying on the bedroom floor by Chief of Police Dan Isley and Deputy Sheriff Walter Young. A .38 caliber revolver, containing three empty shells and with the hammer snapped on a fourth cartridge which failed to explode, and found clutched in the hand. Two of the bullets, one of which entered the right side of the wife's neck and another which passed through her abdomen, were found on the floor in the room. After the shooting Mrs. Jackson ran more than a block to the home of Dr. W. A. Sibley, where she frantically told of the affray. An ambulance was called, and in the meantime the woman was given first aid. Mrs. Lela Proctor, who lives at the rooming house where Mrs. Jackson lived, and who was the only known witness of the affair, said she did not hear them quarreling, but recognized the wife's voice and heard her tell her husband that "he didn't need to come back." Mr. and Mrs. Jackson had been separated since February, and the wife had announced her intention of obtaining a divorce, but had not yet started the action. The couple had been married four years. Mrs. Jackson, who had been working in the cafe owned by Deputy Sheriff Joe Anderson had been home only about 20 minutes when the husband came to her room, Mrs. Proctor said. After overhearing part of the conversation, Mrs. Proctor said, she heard Jackson forcing his way into his wife's room, and later the shots and Mrs. Jackson's screams. "From a window I saw Mrs. Jackson rush from the house into the yard and run south toward Main Street," Mrs. Proctor said. A bloody path marked the route taken by Mrs. Jackson from her home to the Sibley residence. Hysterical and weak from the loss of blood, the only intelligible cries uttered were for someone to prevent her husband from harming their 3 year old daughter. At that time Mrs. Jackson did not know that her husband had shot himself. The Jacksons, who have lived here the last year and half, have a small daughter, who has been at the home of Mrs. Jackson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Benton, in Carterville Missouri, since the couple separated in February. Jackson has been employed the last couple of days as a machine man at the Woodchuck Mine. Hundreds of person were attracted to the Sibley residence by Mrs. Jackson's screaming. County Attorney A. L. Commons, who viewed the body last night at the morgue of the Todd undertaking company in Picher Oklahoma, said that the wife had recently spoken with him relative to obtaining a divorce from her husband. W. M. Benton, father of Mrs. Jackson, visited his daughter this morning at Miami Baptist hospital. He said that she had spoken to him frequently about divorcing her husband. Mr. Benton said that Jackson had brought their 3 year old daughter, Idabelle Jackson, to his home in Carterville in February, and that he had returned for the child Easter Sunday, but that Mrs. Benton would not permit him to take the girl away. Belief was expressed by Mr. Benton that Jackson had been planning for some time to shoot his wife, and that he had taken the child to Carterville to protect it from injury in case of an affray. Benton said that Jackson drank a great deal. Records in the office of Court Clerk George Henderson this morning showed that Mrs. Jackson had not filed a divorce petition.

Picher Oklahoma, April 14. No funeral arrangements have been made for J. B. Jackson, of Cardin, who committed suicide Wednesday night. The body is at the Todd undertaking company parlors. His parents are expected to arrive Sunday.

Picher Oklahoma, April 17. The body of J. B. Jackson, who committed suicide at Cardin last Monday after shooting his wife, was shipped by the Todd undertaking company to Franklin Texas, for burial Monday. Jackson's brother-in-law, J. Wilkins, arrived from Texas Sunday and accompanied the body to Franklin.