Salt Lake Herald | 1890-11-11 | Page 1 | Suicide of a Convict

Suicide ofa Convict JACKSON Miss Nov 10Joe Jackson one of the Burrows gang confined in the penitentiary waiting trial for train rob bery and whose trial was to begin Monday morning suicided by jumping from the third floor ot the corridor to the ground a distance of sixty feet His neck n broken was Jackson had provided himself with himsel a large l knife and when the officers unlocked the cell door ho rushed out ascended to the upper floor where for some time he defied them Finally the officers closed in defed upon the prisoqer when suddenly he plunged from his lofty perch to the nbrick floor Rube Smith also an alleged train robber is now on trial i