, 1877-04-29
FRATRICIDE.
The Cool Way in which Mr. James
Jones Takes Things.
Trivial Cause OF the Murder..-The
Guilty Man Quietly Gives Him.
self Up. -.

Murder; defined by the law-books Is the unlaw.
ful killing Of man with malice aforethousht waa
formerly considered as luxury attainable only by
sae Weather classes. To-day, thanka to the
progress Of civilization. msuslaughter: haa been so
laf cheapened that our humb1est citizens can In
| oo'eo IN the luxury whenever SO minded A BIZ
ased udse and partisan Jury being conceded, all
ene rest 10 easy, and the man who sends fellow
mortal to his long account will, In tho natural
than tbe o1 sser.s essape with lighter sentence
| the lneonprehensible fool who lays fefoninns
hands on registered letter -.
dae earliest murder on record of the ftatri-
ciaal character: 10 Is the iatest one. Yesterday
evening Ut 5:15 o'clock james jones. coiored.
individual, walked into the Cottage Gro;e Ayenne
SUTTON and eoolly ren,aFins that he had Killed bis,
tJones) brother expressed wiah to be locked m
AT The same time he drew from his rear pockat \
revolver Of heavy calibre and mentioned incident
aIy th?t this weapon did the business. In accord.
ancc with his request he wis formally incarrer.
ated, and In order to satisfy the forms Of Inc isw
man was sent to the place indicated to aea whcth-
lanes G Zones had really carried out the Cain
Sat, station-keePer Brennan, Questioned ey,a re-:
porter, says that last evening about 5:i5 James
q fuss, and he fred 1t me. shot at him and be
fell" Mr.. Jones was locked up.
JAMES Jones,
coloIed. aged 20 short In stature. stout In build
Said ": J.: - came into our office, No. Il Cot
past O'Clock: My brother and : I were in
PPa55tneEship tIan' IN 5he Express business We
tGRse sa to a'ou fetch an oasr saa ss
was no more Of fool than BE- vas and 1'i be-
psso 9s nnd ssos at h Rnea
shot once or twice. He fell to the door and told
some men about 1t and went to the station and
him or not" -
DR. ST. JOHN .<,7
was IN his oh1ce on tho corner OF Tweuty-sccoud
rushed In and said that man had been hurt nt no.
= Cottage Grove ayenue- The Doctor made ali
the haste consistent with bis professional dignity
Alfred Eugene Jones, colored man, aged abont
80. stretched upon the floor. Hall minutes ex-
animation M coeynced Tie visitor that Alfred nad
hlmsefas to who did it, the Doctor went home to
get his supper.
Meantime sergt. Barrett had not been idle. He
vas on his way home also to get his supper, when
he noticed . crowd around No. II cotinge Grove.
avenue No. u Ia i two-s story brick building the
tenement The Sergeant wanted to know what the
crowd WAS doing, and passer-by suggested that .
man had been killed Strange as 1t may seem. the.
police officer. to sense OF the situation Hc,
made bee-line for the house. found Alfred
Eugene Jones on the door OF the express Office With
side him, and dead as Pharaoh. The officer de-
ctded that something ought to be done, and ac-;
thc; shooting:- Somebody met him on the reet.
and said that James Jones had owned up, ana the
Sergeant went back to look after the corpse.
Said corpse proved to be the posscs.or OF S45.28
2 gold watch and chain, check for $40. and two
lockets. Efficient and energetic police officer re-
eo1pss p Of these ere @supeuoas luxusies s
JOHN PAYNE
Is cofored man, and detrea IN express wagon.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon James Jones
directed him to 90 TO Michigan avenue near TWEEN
IT, fifth street and move some pictures. Mr. Payne
had some trouble with his load, and returned to
osovf for %hese
named Morgan
.''Eugene and l had row: he raid was id
foot and shot at me- shot, and gness killed
him" Mezsrs. Payne and Morgan stFo1led inside,
him. felt where his palse onght to b., and decided
nat he was dead. James Jones said, '.Take
hose pictures to the Palmer House, Payne, and
etch load Of goods" Both men went as direct.
ID. leaving Eugene on tho floor.
y ot six, all well known in the southern part Of
he city They have been engaged in the express
asiness ness FER several years and their partnership
larried, but separated from his wife. The Old
~ olks also found it. more eon:snient to ve apart
fa s;ssf ss ss"'y i sss asseaosi o.
1nafrelsome disposition. and that
ley had frequently had differences as to tho man
cement Of their business. James was arrested
I'd fined some time aSo for m assault upon
reet-car conductor. 4 number Of coiored men
Id women congregatcd around the 4cene Of the
ngetly last evening. and manifested tho usual:
ofbid desire to see the body The corpse,
ing on lounge in the office, presented a very
'e,liko appearance. the deceased being rather q
'od- looking Young fellow. largo hole In the
ck Of his head where the bullet had entered was
that told the stnry, md the bleeding was very
ght The Coroner received, the usual uottdca-
IN, and an inQueat will be held to. dav