Sunday’s News and Observer carries the following gruesome story:
“G.M. Jackson, 76, well-known farmer of the Leesville section of Wake County, yesterday slew his wife, Mrs. G.M. Jackson, aged 72, his daughter, Miss Eldora Jackson, aged 36, with an axe, and then procured his single-barreled shotgun and blew the top of his head to pieces in what Coroner Waring and Wake County deputies believe was the culmination of domestic troubles in the home.
“Mrs. Jackson had been paralyzed for two years and was said to have been entirely helpless.
“When found about noon yesterday by passers-by, the daughter was still alive, but the husband and wife were lying dead in their own blood. The daughter was rushed to Rex hospital here, where an operation was performed on her badly crushed skull, but she died at 4:45 o’clock yesterday afternoon without regaining consciousness.
“The tragedy is believed to have occurred early yesterday morning, soon after the family of three had arisen from their beds. The husband was fully dressed, but the mother and daughter were only partially dressed. The latter two when found were not wearing shoes or hose.
“It is thought by Coroner Waring that Mr. Jackson, who was said by friends to have been despondent for the past several days, took an ordinary woodaxe from the corner of the kitchen while the family was sitting around the cook-stove and hit his wife on the center of her head, crushing the skull in and scattering the unfortunate woman’s brains and blood in every direction. One of her hands touched the stove and was badly burned.
“The crazed man next advanced upon his unmarried daughter and hit her in the back of he head with the axe, crushing her skull with the blunt end of the weapon. The daughter fell between a wood-box and the stove and had apparently struggled to get away from her crazed parent when the latter inflicted the fatal wound.
“Methodically, the aged murder, apparently believing he had fatally wounded his wife and daughter, placed the bloodstained axe back in a corner of the kitchen, went into a bedroom and got his shotgun. Going back into the dining-room, which adjoins the kitchen where he murdered his wife and daughter, the despondent and crazed man placed the muzzle of the gun against his throat and pulled the trigger.”
From the front page of the Mooresville Enterprise, Thursday, Feb. 25, 1926
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