HUSBAND ACQUITTED.
SCENE AT MURDER TRIAL. (TJNIX2D PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTBIC TELEGBAPH —COPYBIGHT.) (Eeeeived July Sth, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. There was an extraordinary outburst when Thomas Jackson was found not guilty at the Swansea Assizes on a charge of murdering his wife, "Madame X." Pandemonium bioke loose. Women jumped up, clapped their hands, and cheered the prisoner. When he was liberated he had to push his way through a mass of struggling women who were trying to kiss him.—Australian Press Association.
[Mrs Kate Jackson was found dead outside a bungalow at Swansea in February. Her husband was arrested. The •woman had nad a mysterious career, and was known as "Madame X" when she was the principal figure in a lawsuit, in which a trades union official was charged with embezzlement, the woman having received £BOOO in gifts.]
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19665, 8 July 1929, Page 9
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