MRS JACKSON'S "EXPLANATION."

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7880, 3 June 1891, Page 6

MRS JACKSON'S "EXPLANATION."

Mrs Jackson, the lady whose abduction by her husband caused so much excitement, has published in "explanation," in which she gives a singular account of Mr Jackson's conduct to her. Haying described her marriage, how she lelt her home, took train to Blackburn, and was married there, none of her own friends being present, Mrs Jackson says that after the service the party went to Miss Jackson's house to dinner. "On sitting down to dinner, an incident occurred which (says Mrs Jackson)aifected mc greatly, coming as it did so immediately after the marriage. I made some observation to Mr Jackson, when he suddenly said,' Where are your h's F I felt very much incensed, but said nothing, though I thought it a very strange beginning. Mr. Jackson asked mc where I waa going to spend the night. He did not ask. mc to go anywhere with him, ..and 2 said I was going home, and he must take and leave mc there. He arranged to do this, and to return to Blackburn himself. It is not true, as Mr Jackson is said to have stated, that he asked mc after the wedding to accompany him to London, or pressed mc to do so. When I stated that I had better return home he made no demur of any kind ,* his manner suggested, on the contrary, that he was relieved when 1 put on my bonnet to go; and be never said anything, except to ask mc, as I have said, whore I was going. We were never alone in the house during the day." Mrs Jackson then states that she got the, settlement -of her property prepared in the usual form, and it was executed by Mr Jackson at his brother's house at Sydenham. Her. income was about £609 a year; und Mr Jackson, in the event of his surviving her, would take this income for his life. Mr Jackson brought nothing; into the settlement. Having repeated tha* at the time of the marriage she meant oo be all that a good wife should be to a husband, Mrs Jackson says that she has to trace the course of the events which shai>_ed all those feelings, and which led her to realise the mistake she. had made. Almost immediately upon Mr Jackson's departure she realised thst it would be impossible for her to hope "to endure the life of a colonial set-ler In consequence of her delicate state of health; and In order that Mr Jackson might not have time to carry out his plan of buying land in New Zealand* she wrote to him, being careful that the Letter should be out there so as to be awaiting him on his arrival, to tell him of this. She asked'him to return home to England, and-made some preparation for commencing housekeeping and receiving l le r husband on his return.

"In this way the first few months passed after the marriage, until the day when I received the first letters from my husband. The first thing that struck mc as peculiar was that on the same day. January SOfch, 1888, he had written two tetters strikingly different In kind, that he bad enclosed them in the same envelope and that one he apparently wished to be private and the other to be shown generally. That which I was to show was in affectionate terms, describing his experi,|fices on the voyage, and his illness, &c. %ipt $ne private letter what struck mc waa |he fact that, although he had neitherc bought land nor commenced farming, and thus could npt have spent any of the capital -which I had been told they were both taking out, he was without even the means to •_*yhia fare home; tLen, again, thr.t I should be asked to pay the return fare of the friend as well as of my husband, in order that, as he proposed, my husband and I, his sister, his friend should get ap a sort of jo'mt home here in Kngland _ my money; The foUowing are the passages in th a letter referring to money: —* We give u,p New Zealand, bat cannot §o borne w.thout means, and that Is a andred pounds and a little more. Aa •WH-. 1 " 1 _et it we will tadse our passage. ?_ d ?f *J r .*me a 8 B °en as possible. . . I TOould nave liked to be leaving here in May, b At I do not see bow the money is to St h>re. It has only to be placed to "B. Wjghtpn- Jackson, Bank of New Zeasj>A, at Auckland," but nave a chat with bftbeh"*