Damaging Testimony

Newport, Ky., April 30. - Startling testimony was given Wednesday niorning in the Jackson murder trial, by two women, who confirmad to some extent the story told by George H. Jackson, the coachman. Mrs. Scithers, who lives on the Lioking pike and comes to Newport on foot every day, te3tifled that about 8 o'clock on the morning of Friday, Jan. 31 she met two men, strangers, who stared at her in such a way as to frighten her. She says the road oa which she met them was usod altogother by residents of the neighborhood, and it was a very unusual thing to see any other person there. Thia is the road over which Jackson says he drove the cab Friday night. The witness said she had never seen these men since until Wednesday morning, when she recognized them as Jackson and Walling. Mrs. Alice Steifel, who lives on au unfrequented road, between the Licking pike and Alexanilria pike, which is also a part of the route described by Jackson, testified that after midnight on Friday, Jan. 31, she was awakened by a dog barking and heard a one-horso vohicle passing along the road rapidly. ïhis was v very unusual oocurrence and she thought it was somebody hastening to see a patiënt.