Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-21
JONES NOT The MAN.
Officer Edelin, Says He Is Not the Man
Who Shot ut Guiteau.


WAslnNGToN, November Gown.
Jones, arrested on the charge of firing
into the prison van in which Guiteau
VAS being conveyed from the court
house TO the jail, with intent to kill him,
was taken the TO Second precinct
police station about 9 o'clock last even
ing. He was very drunk, and unable to
say much about the matter. This
morning he had become sober enough
to appreciate his position, and at once
took steps to secure counsel in the per-
son OF X X. Elliott, who will defend him
in the police court tomorrow morning.
A visitor 10 the staiion-house, to day,
asked Jones why he didn't hit Guiteau
Jones laughed and said, at wasn't !
that shot at him. want 10 see them
prove it 80 confident were the author
tiles last nigh. the right
search was made, and ii was not till Or NJ
any OF the officers in the van at the time
of the shooting were sent to the police
station house TO identity the prisoner
Police Officer Edclin, who was sitting
on the van with the driver, and who
fred at the horseman AS he wheeled and
fled, rode out to the station house
about O'Clock. After a thorough
sCrutiny Of Jones features, and some
conversation with him, Officer Edelln
entered the office OF the station house
and announced to the officers and re-
porters: Gentlemen,
That is Not the Man.
| should Known the man ! fired at yes
terday among million, and | not only
failed to identify this man, Jones, as
the man, but | could swear that he is
not the man.
Officer Edelin then specified points OF
difference between them as follows:
Jones has light complexion, with
hardly perceptible moustache. whereas
the man who fired at Guiteau was a
dark. smoothly man, apparently about
- years old, with very heavy, stumpy,
black mustache, and keen black eyes.
Besides the latter was cool and sober
and the manner in which he explained
and executed his work, even though he
failed was that OF clear
headed, determined man, rather than OF
a hall witted crank. Again the horse
he rode was heavy sorre with white
t,re legs, while Jones horse has not
white fleek upon it," The authorities
are pretty well satisfied now from Officer
Edelin's statement, they have not
secured
The Right Man,
as an interval OF an hour and a halt
elapsed between the time when the
would-be avenger escaped from the pur-
suing van and the time when the
mounted officers first sighted the &c
centric Jones. There is room
for several theories now being advanchd,
that the real culprit made good his es
cape, as ne bad ample time to do go, or
that Jones, after, as he supposed,
having elnded his pursuers, concluded
celebrate his exploit with grand spree;
and again that Jones was an accom-
p!iCe 10 the extent of loaning his horse,
and after receiving back the animal on
the outskirts Oft district and learning
what had been done, he was just drunk
enough to enjoy the sport OF being pur-
Suel Dy IIlt pOiICt, huONlH Ing lp COulN
not BE- held for the real criminal.
Jones, or Not Jouesp
Perry Carson, colored guardsman al
the rear OF the van, tonight positively
identified Jones as the horseman
who followed the van to East Capitol
and First streets, where the shooting
occurred. Carson says that when the
van reached the Capitol grounds Jones
was pretty close behind, and when
they reached First street, he rode past
the rear end, an almost Immediately he
heard pistol shot, and then an
other, but whether Jones is
tn" man who fired the pistol
shot. hnc r"t say, as from his posi-
tiUu on tne van it was impossible to see
what happened On the near side or
front part
TIE police are impressed tonight
that Jones is the man who fred at Gui-
teau, withstanding the statement OF
Officer Eielin, and lack OF positive iden.
titicaton on the part OF the guardsman,
GarsOD