THE ALTHORP MYSTERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9013, 19 October 1892, Page 5

THE ALTHORP MYSTERY.

Prut A tsociation.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, October 17. Kate Jackson, whom the friends of Macrae (the man arrested for the Althorp murder) declared was the woman murdered, is proved to have sailed for New Zealand on August 26, some days after the discovery of the alleged murder.

The woman Jackson referred to above is probably the Ha me person mentioned in the following extract from a report in an English paper of the discovery of the remains of a woman in a sack secreted in a ditch at Althorp :— " Miss Louise Tite, aged 17, said she believed the remains found might very likely prove to be those of her sister. She had been well educated. The oilpaintings and water-colour drawings round the wails were all her doing. She could speak French, and was an accomplished pianist. Her mother, who had been well educated, had taught them all. Her mother was a member of the Salvation Army, but chiefly got her living by giving lessons in music. She had had to struggle very hard to keep them, for she was left with five little children when her father deserted her mother and went to Australia. Her sister, whom they were looking everywhere for now, had had a moat romantic career. When her mother was deserted she had to send her out, and she was barmaid to Mr. Jackson, of the Saracen's Head, Northampton, and as she was very attractive and highly accomplished, though he was an old man he fell in love with her. They took a business in London (Marylebone), but Mr. Jackson sold it, and went into private apartments. When he got his money for his business, £1200, he suddenly packed up his things one day, and on her sister's returning home, having been out all day, she found him and everything gone ; and on making inquiries she learned that he had taken a passage on board the John Elder for New Zealand, without leaving the slightest provision tor his wife. Her sister immediately raised some money, went after him, and -ucceeded in getting to Plymouth before his ship did. When it came into harbour there she went on board, at which Mr. Jackson was greatly surprised. She refused to let him go without her and then he reluctantly paid her passage out (third-class), whilst he him self went second-class. She had to rough it while he was in comfortable quarters. When they reached New Zealand he tried to give her the slip, so she instituted proceedings against him for desertion. Her sister engaged a lawyer and he got an arrangement come to by which £200 was to be lodged in the bank for her, and £400 deposited in case he deserted her. Mr. Jackson was 50, and his wife only 22, so they did not get on very well together. She was kept very short of money, and accordingly took to giving music and painting lessons, and some of the paintings were done there. The sister showed our reporter a copy of the Melbourne Herald with an account of all the proceedings in. As Mrs. Jackson did not get on very well, she came back to England, and after staying a little timo went to America for several years and tried to do there ; but in New York she lost the £200 she had taken out with her. Before she went away she was always of a religious turn of mind, and given to study, and the doctor said some time ago he thought it was weakening her brain. When fihe was at Northampton in the early pare of this year she seemed very much altered. She went to go to live with ■* lady in Regentstreet, London ; but she only stayed there a day. it was not known why she left.