Beaumont, Sept 19, 1934--His identity established and the stolen coupe in which he fled recovered, the search for the fugitive assailant of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Andress, Liberty county farm couple, today led into Louisiana. Andress was shot to death and his wife severely wounded Monday afternoon by a man whom they surprised in the act of ransacking their home ... Mrs. Andress saw her husband felled by a blast from the shotgun after the man had robbed the farmer of $20. The woman was knocked down as she ran out of the house screaming for help.
Huntsville, Nov 19, 1934--Jack Jackson, alias Dallas White, calmly walked to death in the state penitentiary's electric chair here early today for the killing of Jesse Andress, Devers farmer. Jackson, who twice had been saved from a mob's violence at the Liberty county jail and who attempted to take his own life by slashing his throat, said he had nothing to say as he entered the death chamber. He had told prison attaches that "I believe I'll be able to walk right on in there to the chair and get it over with." Mrs. Andress was beaten over the head by the man after her husband was slain but recovered.∼He died from shotgun blast to the mouth. It was listed as a homicide. His parents were John Andress and Althis Lee.
Huntsville, Nov 19, 1934--Jack Jackson, alias Dallas White, calmly walked to death in the state penitentiary's electric chair here early today for the killing of Jesse Andress, Devers farmer. Jackson, who twice had been saved from a mob's violence at the Liberty county jail and who attempted to take his own life by slashing his throat, said he had nothing to say as he entered the death chamber. He had told prison attaches that "I believe I'll be able to walk right on in there to the chair and get it over with." Mrs. Andress was beaten over the head by the man after her husband was slain but recovered.∼He died from shotgun blast to the mouth. It was listed as a homicide. His parents were John Andress and Althis Lee.
Beaumont, Sept 19, 1934--His identity established and the stolen coupe in which he fled recovered, the search for the fugitive assailant of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Andress, Liberty county farm couple, today led into Louisiana. Andress was shot to death and his wife severely wounded Monday afternoon by a man whom they surprised in the act of ransacking their home ... Mrs. Andress saw her husband felled by a blast from the shotgun after the man had robbed the farmer of $20. The woman was knocked down as she ran out of the house screaming for help.
Huntsville, Nov 19, 1934--Jack Jackson, alias Dallas White, calmly walked to death in the state penitentiary's electric chair here early today for the killing of Jesse Andress, Devers farmer. Jackson, who twice had been saved from a mob's violence at the Liberty county jail and who attempted to take his own life by slashing his throat, said he had nothing to say as he entered the death chamber. He had told prison attaches that "I believe I'll be able to walk right on in there to the chair and get it over with." Mrs. Andress was beaten over the head by the man after her husband was slain but recovered.∼He died from shotgun blast to the mouth. It was listed as a homicide. His parents were John Andress and Althis Lee.
Huntsville, Nov 19, 1934--Jack Jackson, alias Dallas White, calmly walked to death in the state penitentiary's electric chair here early today for the killing of Jesse Andress, Devers farmer. Jackson, who twice had been saved from a mob's violence at the Liberty county jail and who attempted to take his own life by slashing his throat, said he had nothing to say as he entered the death chamber. He had told prison attaches that "I believe I'll be able to walk right on in there to the chair and get it over with." Mrs. Andress was beaten over the head by the man after her husband was slain but recovered.∼He died from shotgun blast to the mouth. It was listed as a homicide. His parents were John Andress and Althis Lee.
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