THE JACKSON CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7182, 5 June 1891, Page 2

THE JACKSON CASE.

Mrs Jackson's Age. [Pbom oxte London Correspondent. J Lokdon, April 24. I may here mention (as it explains much in Mrs Jackson's ststement) that she was jufct forty-two when she married "dear Haughton," and that she is very touchy as to her social position. With regard to the Auckland letter, the lady sayß :— My eyea were opened. Ib was not, for myeelf, as I had hoped and believed, that 1 had been loved and married. I recognised how complete had been my mistake, and I wsb miserable. I saw that, if Mr Jackson had taken money out to buy land, he could not have required money to pay his passage bavk again. Then I was greatly astonished at hia proposing I should get a farm in England for him and for Mr Dixon Robinson, and a house for his Bibter. In this way my uneasiness and suspicion were aroused, and inauy circumstances helped to confirm them. I found that hia sißter was in my husband's confidence to such an extent that she wrote me to Bay that she could nob send me letters which he had written to her for fear of giving him offence. Then I found that people in Clitheroe and in Blackburn knew of matters concerning my husband before I did; and thus, having had my distrust aroused by hia letters, I began to be suspicious of everything. During this time also Miss Jackson began to importune me about Bending out this money to her brother, and by the general tone of her conversation led me to infer that she considered I had much improved my position in marrying Mr Jackson. She also wrote me on April 6 : " I think no one is to be so envied as you," referring to this supposed improvement in my position. In the same letter she wished to know whether I had sent out the sum which Mr Jackson had written for in his letter. He had requested that I should see his sister on this eubject, and this, followed by the letters she wrote, irritated me excessively and added to my disquiet. Thus, in a letter dated April 6, 1888, she said, " When did you Bend the passage-money, and when do you expect him back? 'in his last letter he tells me that he can only just hold' out till April." I scut no answer to this, and then, four days afterwards, I wbb more annoyed to receive a further letter, dated April 10, as follows: "If you have not sent the money, tell me." Then I wrote to her that day saying that my money appeared to bo her only thought, and that I did not want to be troubled with any more letters. A loDg letter follows to " dear Haughton," in which distrust of her husbnnd, jealousy of Dixon Eobinson, and a firm determination to stick to her own money at all costs, are nicely blended. Jackson replies with temper. Here are a few g9ins from hia epiatle :— " A& far as that farming is concerned, I never asked you for any money for it, or indeed for anything else, save my passage Home, which is entirely your own fault, for had you come here it would not have been required, and you would have had a comfortable home. You either would not or could not do so, so you must just take the consequences. I never intended any one to live with us ; in fact, I have great objections to anything of the sort. Though Miss Jackson has dared to write to you she did her duty, and was in the right ; and don't in future be bo foolish as to call her Miss Jackson. Her name is Isabella. You had no right toask your people anything. If you did not care to send the money, there was an end of it, only you should not have asked me to give up everything here j and you must remember that when I told you it would cost a couple of hundreds to fetch yon, you said, ' What does it matter if we are happy V I wonder how you dared write to my sister aB you say you have done ; and how dare you say I married you for your trash, when you know it is a lie ! Ab for not raising yourself by marrying me, that is quite a matter of opinion. If you get a house of your own and I am with you, you will bo pleased to treat any one I care for in a good and kine* manner. You say others are posted up a month before you. Again I cay it is not true. If any letters have ini&Bed you, or have been later than my sister's, they must have been kept back on purpose. I do not care a fig what your people think, say, or do. I have no faith in them. Before leaving home I was told that old Hartley and your people would try and influence you against me if I left you at Shawbridge. I did not believe it at the time, thinking you cared for me enough to shut your ears to anything that might be said. lam very eorry you are happy, for it proves how little you care what pain you gave me. The only annoyance you can have must be from your own people. Mine, so far from showing you any indignity, were prepared to treat you with all honour ; but lam certain, were they to see your letter (which is most unladylike), they would have had nothing to do with us. You say you do not wish to quarrel, yet you insult me in every way you can. Believing you have been deluded by others, which can have caused' you to write as you have done, I remain, your (still) loving husband, " E. Haughion Jackson." This letter the narrow-minded wife "ebb never forgiven. In the rest of her long statement she recurs to it constantly vowing "its großß brutality," &c, opened her eyes. She meant to be Jackson's wife, but had never promised to be his slave and so on. The husband tried futilely to retrieve the false step. It was no use. Mrs Jackson is evidently obstinate as a pig. " Dear Emily's " continued B+iffneckedness evidently roused the devil in Mr Jackson, and whilst in this savage • frame of mind he made another attempt to obtain a hearing from his wife, but failed. This failure appears to have irritated the man beyond control for not only did he objurgate Mr Baldwin as a "hoary-headed old hypocrite, the biggest rogue in Lancashire," when that worthy intimated Mrs Jacknon was not at home to him, but he also, when requested by Miss Hall (Mra J.'b sister) to leave the houße, stigmatised that good lady as a base perverter ot the sacred truth, and a female of flexiblo ethics. This delicate badinage was overheard by Mrs JackBon, and she promptly wrote her husband refusing to hold any further communication whatsoever. Chastened by a recognition of his foolish and ungentle* manly conduct, Mr Jackson penned a penitent and affectionate note to hia wife begging an interview, in order that he might have an opportunity of putting himself right with her. Mra Jackson's reply merely confirmed her former resolve to have done with him for ever. After this affair came the memorable abduction and the consequent judicial intervention. It is now stated that Jackson will publish his version of this matrimonial fizzle. So far there has been much of interest to society in this fin de sifcle comedy, but a re-hash of the whole story will be very wearisome. Mr Jackson will be wise if ho lots the matter die out, so far as the public is concerned. We shall all be interested to hear that he and his wedded wife are really re-united, but at present tone is inclined to murmur ohe ! jam satis est.