Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-12

Jones (ner True nhinc VIC ouPPiOsoi. ~
three years has she been an inmate OF
Mrs. Flynn's bagnio, No. 40 Washington
street. On last Saturday evening about
nine o'clock Van Roberts and Savage
were at Mrs. Flynn's, and proposed to
Ada Jones to 90 out and get oysters.
They went taking with them another
girl, Lou Smith--to Mares saloon, ad-
joining the Overton Hotel. Soon Pat
Sullivan arrived and Joined the crowd in
the room which they occupied up stairs.
There are three rooms up stairs; the
front room larger than the other two in
| rear of it, because gallery runs along
the other two rooms facing the alley
doors open out on this gallery from these
rooms. The party had oysters and
drinks, and remained there up to half
| PAST one or two o'clock. Lou Smith
left, but says when she left the
room Ada Jones was not in it..
(The party had been going out on the
gallery during the night The three
men we're left at Mares door by Lou.
Smith, who returned to Mrs. Flynns.
Soon the three men left and went to Sui
livan's house, but Sullivan's wife drove
Roberts and Savage away. Van Roberts
says when they left the room Ada was
missing; he supposed she had gone off
with another man; did not know any
thing about pistol; heard no shot; had
no quarrel with Ada for some time Rob
erts had been Ada friend). Benny Bon
ner, a waiter boy at Mares, thought he
heard fuss up stairs about one o'clock;
heard noise as if chair had fallen;
went up and found three men in the
room, but no woman Roberts was cry
ing and excited. Sullivan was trying
to get him to be quiet.
A PISTOL FOUND.
Mr.. O'Boy, from the 0verton Hotel,
came into the jury room and laid pis-
tol on the table--a patent derringer,
called the "Southerner" (cartridge-fring
pistol). He found it on the gallery in
the morning, within six feet of the body,
and near it piece of dress. The pis-
tol contained an empty cartridge, and
had been recently discharged. 1t turned
out that Roberts had borrowed this pis-
toll some weeks before from Gus Bonner.
Roberts, in explanation of this, said Vie
bought cartridges for it at Clark's, and
lost the pistol that night. AT the table
somebody took it out Of his hand. The
testimony closed. 1t was evident that
when Lou Smith left the party at the
door, Roberts, Savage and Sullivan re-
turned to the room, and remained there
probably an hour. Whether Ada
Jones was in the room at that
time or not is a mystery, but
the probabilities are that she was.
She must then have gone out on the gal
lery while these men were in the room
(the party had been going out on and
returning from the gallery during the
night, and then she was shot by the
cowardly assassin. Who was he2 That's
the mystery. Which of these men did
the dark deed2 DR.. E, A. White made
the post norton examination. The ball
entered the left breast, passed through
the lung, and ploughed across the heart,
lodging in the hollow Of the body, where
it was found. The jury returned the
following verdiGti THAT the deceased
came to her death by pistol shot at the
hands of W. Van Roberts" The Cor
oner committed Roberts, Savage and
Sullivan to Jail. Roberts and Savage live
in the country, some six miles from
the city. While the inquest was pro-
crossing the unfortunate victim lay on
the floor, stripped to the waist The
upright and transverse missions made in
her bosom by the surgeon were sewed
pp. The terrible seal of death was on
her brow. Her left arm lay extended
on the floor, and around the wrist was a
linen cuff fastened with pearl button.
Her feet were encased in Polish boots of
bronze leather. There was no express
sion Of either agony or fear on her face;
it was calm and peaceful. Her lips
were closed, but not compressed, and
her eyelids were little open. Her
whole appearance would indicate that
she had dropped to sleep, did not those
fearful scars in her bosom tell differ
ent tale. Her infamous murderer had
surprised her on the gallery and shot her
dead before she was aware of her danger
before instinct coElS stamp either fear
or pain on that pale face. The murdered
woman was above the average size
and hight. Her features we're clear-cut
and regular; the mouth small and well
formed; The nose Greeian; her hair dark
i
brown. In life she presented an attrae-
tive appearance on the streets, and in
death the regularity and symmetry Of
her form preserved their perfect proper
tons. The body was placed in box
and carried to the house of Mrs. Flynn,
and will be buried to-day. These are the
facts 70 far developed in case of muir
der, the most Infamous, brutal and dss-
tardly ever committed in the city Of
Memphis.
LATER.
From Developments discovered by the
GoFOpsF tbs morpips in fact frop the
confession Of one Of the parties pTesenI,
it is true that Ada Jones was shot in the
room, and then was dragged out on the
GALLERY Tho silk dress worn nv the