People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — TRIAL IS POSTPONED. [ARTICLE]

TRIAL IS POSTPONED.

Scott Jaekaea Given • Respite Until Tuesday, April SI. Newport, Ky., April 8. —Scott Jackson, the alleged murderer of Pearl Bryan, wag before Judge Helm on Tuesday for trial. Upon the application of his attorneys the judge postponed the hearing until Tuesday, April 21. The courtroom was crowded, but the best of order prevailed. As Jackson was leaving the courtroom he passed in front of a woman sitting in the front row of seats. He looked down at hei smilingly, when the woman suddenly delivered a vicious kick at the prisoner, and as he passed beyond bc-r she was * heard to say: “I would nave killed him if I could. If I had had a pistol I would have shot him.” She refused to give Iler name and the incident was not widely observed, thus possibly preventing more serious consequences.