Shortly after that Jackson bought cocaine at Koelble's drug store, on
Sixth Street, between Plum and Elm.
"Do you know where he was going to take her?"
"Yes; he said he was going to take her to Ft. Thomas.
"About two weeks ago he asked me if I would help the girl out of trouble,
and I said I would. He said she was coming here in about a week, and he
would take me to where she was shopping. Last Monday night he told me
the girl would be here that night. The next day Jackson told me the girl
was at the Indiana House, and asked me to go down there. I went with
him, and he went to her room while I waited down stairs. The next day he
told me he had an engagement with the girl at Fourth and Plum Streets,
and for me to go there and tell her he would meet her in the evening.
That is the last I ever saw of the girl."
"When did he kill her?"
"I guess he did it Friday night."
"How did he do it?"
"Well, if you will go to our room you will find a hypodermic syringe,
which I think will tell the whole story."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he had a bottle of white stuff in the room, and I asked him what
it was. He said it was arsenic and cocaine. I asked him what he was
going to do with it, and he said he was going to give it to the girl."
"Did he give it to her?"
"Well, I guess he used the cocaine. I don't think it killed her at once,
and that she tried to fight him off when he went to cut off her head."
"Where do you think he was on the Wednesday night before the murder?"