PASTOR ON MURDER CHARGE
NEW YORK! Mon.— Shortly after after he preached a sermon on faith, hope, and love, a negro clergyman was arrested tonight/' and charged with murder. He is the Rev. Beecher Jackson, aged 36, pastor of a Newark (New Jersey) Presbyterian Church. The police said that Jaekspn admitted he killed Earl Welts, a 70-year-old sexton, with an icepick. He claimed that it was in selfdefence during an argument at the parsonage on Friday night. Jackson said he began to take Wells to a hospital, but realised he was dead, and dumped the body behind a beer tavern.
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Northern Advocate, 27 September 1949, Page 7
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